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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Most Anticipated Books of 2023: The Millions, The Rumpus "The poet Amy Key's first book might be the most hyped memoir of 2023 (or at least a close second to Spare)... This raw, gorgeous, pulsing memoir is...the harbinger of a real talent." --Laura Hackett, Sunday Times [UK] Amy Key--a writer "of rare and strange magic" (Guardian)--probes the art of living without romance in this soul-stirring debut.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A very modern biography of John Donne-the poet of love, sex, and death-by bestselling children's book author and superstar academic Katherine Rundell"--
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A nuanced, comprehensive portrait of Britain's most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordinary life is a study...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this brilliant biography, an acclaimed Oxford professor rediscovers a poet whose rich contradictions confound his monumental image and immerses us in the rhythms and textures of his world, from his childhood into his idiosyncratic belief system and his strange, electrifying imagination.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
We know Edward Lear as a genius of nonsense, full of shocks and surprises, and as a poet of strange loves--"The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, " "The Dong with a Luminous Nose." We may know him, too, for his paintings of parrots and owls, or for his luminous landscapes. But do we know that he taught Queen Victoria to draw, traveled alone across the wild Albanian mountains, and waded through muddy fields with Tennyson? Lear lived all his life on the borders...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's deep depression. As lives are made...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Though he never published any of his English poems during his lifetime, George Herbert (1593?1633) is recognized as possibly the greatest religious poet in the language. Few English poets of his age still inspire such intense devotion today. In this richly perceptive biography, John Drury for the first time integrates Herbert?s poems fully into his life, enriching our understanding of both the poet?s mind and his work. As Drury writes in his preface,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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...
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Language
English
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Description
"His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Offers an approach to the lives and works of Keats, Wordsworth, Lamb, and the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon through the exemplary events of a single evening spent in thoughtful discussion and, later, raucous conversation.
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