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Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Andrew Lang,Aberdeen Press In writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the te… OL1089009W
The autobiography of a super-tramp The autobiography of a super-tramp W. H. Davies “A young poet tramped across America, crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic as a cattleman, begged and peddled in England, developing meanwhile in the power to write with rare perception and beauty.” … OL1092945W
Chaucer Chaucer Adolphus William Ward From the book:The biography of Geoffrey Chaucer is no longer a mixture of unsifted facts, and of more or less hazardous conjectures. Many and wide as are the gaps in our knowledge concerning the cour… OL1118017W
The ghost road The ghost road Pat Barker **From Amazon.com:** **The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.** *The Ghost Road* is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fi… OL11221644W
Byron Byron Harold Nicolson Lord Byron's first epic poem, "Childe Harold", was published in 1812. Only 12 years later after a life including exile, marriage and fatherhood, he died aged 36 at Missolonghi in Greece. First writte… OL1155706W
Byron and Shelley Byron and Shelley Buxton, John. This is the first history of their friendship to be written. An account of their relationship during the years 1816-1822. These were important years not only for Byron and Shelley, but also for Rom… OL1206433W
Selected letters of John Keats Selected letters of John Keats John Keats "The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new editi… OL1455219W
Poems by John Keats Poems by John Keats John Keats Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century. OL1455259W
Byron's letters and journals, a new selection Byron's letters and journals, a new selection Lord Byron,Richard Lansdown Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. . His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter … OL17311348W
The Oxford companion to Chaucer The Oxford companion to Chaucer Gray, Douglas "Nicknamed the Father of English Poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer has long inspired great writers, including Shakespeare. He continues to connect with contemporary audiences through his surprisingly modern d… OL18256273W
Letters of Ted Hughes Letters of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes Overview: Ted Hughes described letter-writing as "excellent training for conversation with the world." These nearly 300 letters-selected from several thousand-show him in all his aspects: poet, husba… OL18753105W
Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser Andrew Hadfield "The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description. OL19670324W
Lives of Uneducated Poets, to which are Added Attempts in Verse Lives of Uneducated Poets, to which are Added Attempts in Verse Jones, John Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. OL19812791W
Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen Guy Cuthbertson "One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite… OL19980136W
Ted Hughes Ted Hughes Jonathan Bate "Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and eco… OL20018528W
Lives of the poets Lives of the poets Michael Schmidt A dazzling account of the entire history of poetry in the English language -- from the fourteenth century to the present -- by one of the most intelligent and passionate critics in the field. … OL2004345W
Stephen Spender Stephen Spender Stephen Spender "Stephen Spender's Collected Poems is the first gathering together of this renowned poet's major work in more than thirty years. The book contains recent uncollected poems, including remembrances of … OL2225444W
A world of my own A world of my own Christopher Whitfield "[Whitfield] arrived in Chipping Campden in 1924 with a car and his cats and his books, determined to make his way as a writer, although obliged to work in the family manufacturing business in Birmin… OL27698352W
W.B. Yeats W.B. Yeats Foster, R. F. Volume 1: In the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over fifty years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet t… OL2947165W
The Friendship The Friendship Adam Sisman The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and ColeridgeThe friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, th… OL3034854W
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