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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure of his vocation while bitterly resentful of the obstacles that blighted his career; devoured by sexual desire and frustration; and in thrall to alcohol and...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experience - social, political,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age. Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural upheaval that we call the Romantic Revolution. He...
17) Byron's women
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; and another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Nine women and one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron-mad, bad, and very very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote...
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.
Author
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This biography explores the foundations of Shelley's revolutionary poetics--his anger at a system in which the rich lived luxuriously at the expense of the poor and oppressed, causing war, colonialism, and suffering. An anti-monarchist and a forerunner of civil disobedience, Shelley's poetry was considered blasphemous and seditious, and was pirated by the radical press to reach new working class audiences. His revolutionary ideals were espoused by...
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