Excerpt from The Book of Friendship Shakespeare describes the way in which the essence of fleeting beauty is preserved. "For never-resting time leads summer on

Excerpt from The Friendship At the very writing of your name in the inditing of this dedication, you seem some thing more than a mere house of wood in the green

Famous literary friendships such as those between H.L. Mencken and James Joyce, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore are