Results for: books tagged ‘Romantics’
A Choice of Coleridge's Verse: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge's flawed genius has fascinated people for almost 200 years. His greatest poems have a quality which sets them apart from - and perhaps above - those of even his ... More
Wainewright the Poisoner: Andrew Motion
A dazzling and boldly original biography by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and the celebrated biographer of Larkin and Keats.Thomas Griffiths Wainewright was an ingenious and unscrupulous criminal.In 1828 he inherited ... More
Curtain Call: Hugo Williams
The art of portraiture in poetry is traceable from the Latin poets and Chaucer via Goldsmith, Wordsworth and Browning, to the modern era of Rimbaud, Cavafy, Auden, Lowell and Hofmann. ... More
John Keats: Andrew Motion
Keats is the first major biography of the poet for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the story is well known ... More
Byron: Fiona MacCarthy
Fiona MacCarthy's Byron: Life and Legend is a breakthrough in reinterpreting Byron's life and poetry for a new generation, showing him as a formative figure in European romanticism, as Byron ... More
Selected Poetry of John Clare: John Clare
This is the first selection of the great Romantic 'peasant poet' John Clare to make available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, ... More
William Wordsworth: William Wordsworth
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their ... More
Electric Shepherd: Karl Miller
Electric Shepherd is a likeness of James Hogg, poet and shepherd, and one of Scotland's most unusual literary figures. With no schooling after the age of seven, Hogg struggled to ... More
The Romantics: Geoffrey Grigson
The first in a trio of anthologies by Geoffrey Grigson that are both highly entertaining and provide a fresh approach to the ideas of an age. More
The Marvellous Boy: Linda Kelly
In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his ... More
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