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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
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
David Jones David Jones Thomas Robert Dilworth Among the revolutions of the last century, none was more important or potentially more lasting than the one in the arts called “Modernism”. Among the giants of that movement were writers who changed … OL17940086W
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
Wordsworth Wordsworth Juliet Barker William Wordsworth's early life reads like a novel. Orphaned at a young age and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, he became the archetypal teenage rebel. Refusing to enter the Chur… OL2932960W
A revolution in taste A revolution in taste Louis Aston Marantz Simpson Simpson shows how Dylan Thomas reminded American poets of the importance of the personal voice, the poetry of feelings and inner needs. He then moves to three American poets, examining how they respo… OL2942660W
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
Byron Byron Phyllis Grosskurth George Gordon, Lord Byron was born with a deformed foot. He was manic-depressive, athletic, and erotic. He embodied the romantic, revolutionary, patriotic, and free-living life of poetry as no one be… OL3360036W
The long and winding road from Blake to the Beatles The long and winding road from Blake to the Beatles Matthew Schneider "The story of the Beatles begins not with the rock-'n'-roll revolution of the 1950s, but in the Romantic revolution of the 1790s, when age-old notions about literature, politics, education, and socia… OL3501865W