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Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
xiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 3 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Collects works by forty-seven important poets, arranged chronologically by birth order from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to Sylvia Plath, and includes biographies, essays by accomplished contemporary poets, and CD recordings of each featured poet reading his or her own works.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A new biography of John Keats that uncovers the reality of his imagination within the context of his time"--
"The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone-- 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'-- seemingly damned him to oblivion. When he died at the age of twenty-five, having taken a battering from the conservative press, few critics imagined he would be considered one of the great English poets two hundred years later, though...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xix, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the network of writers and readers who gathered around Percy Bysshe Shelley and the campaigning journalist Leigh Hunt. They included Lord Byron, John Keats, and Mary Shelley, as well as a host of lesser-known figures: Mary Shelley's stepsister and Byron's mistress, Claire Clairmont; Hunt's botanist sister-in-law, Elizabeth Kent; the musician Vincent Novello; the painters Benjamin Haydon and Joseph Severn; and writers such as Charles and...
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