Gallery of Clouds av Rachel Eisendrath

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<b>A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading.</b><br><br>Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century pastoral romance <i>Arcadia</i> was long considered one of the finest works of prose fiction in the English language. Shakespeare borrowed an episode from it for <i>King Lear</i>; Virginia Woolf saw it as “some luminous globe” wherein “all the seeds of English fiction lie latent.” In <i>Gallery of Clouds</i>, the Renaissance scholar Rachel Eisendrath has written an extraordinary homage to <i>Arcadia</i> in the form of a book-length essay divided into passing clouds: “The clouds in my Arcadia, the one I found and the one I made, hold light and color. They take on the forms of other things: a cat, the sea, my grandmother, the gesture of a teacher I loved, a friend, a girlfriend, a ship at sail, my mother. These clouds stay still only as long as I look at them, and then they change.”<