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1	Poems and prose more books like this by Gerard Manley Hopkins add to wishlist Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Byron: Life and Legend more books like this by Fiona MacCarthy add to wishlist With this brilliant book, MacCarthy has produced the most important work on Byron in nearly half a century. Granted unprecedented access to many documents and artifacts unexamined by previous scholars, the acclaimed biographer brings a fresh, engaging sensibility to a full appreciation of the poet's life and art. see all copies from $17.08! new only from $17.08! \| first editions
3	Blake more books like this by Peter Ackroyd add to wishlist Peter Ackroyd has written an intellectual biography of William Blake, placing the artist in the context of his times and explicating Blake's unique vision as it was expressed in his work. He sees Blake as a perceptive social critic whose epic poems offer a vision of spiritual renewal. see all copies from $2.98! new only from $9.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Keats more books like this by Andrew Motion add to wishlist The outline of the story of John Keats's life is well known: the archetypal life of the Romantic genius, critically spurned and dying young. This biography aims to enrich the facts with an understanding of how Keats fitted into the intellectual and political life of his time. It includes detailed examination of significant friendships with anti ... see all copies from $70.30! signed copies \| first editions
5	Exiles more books like this by Ron Hansen add to wishlist In December 1875, the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, bound for England and then America. On board were five young nuns who, exiled by Bismarck's laws against Catholic religious orders, were going to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Early one morning, the ship ran aground in the Thames and more than sixty lives were lost - including those of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.64! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life more books like this by Paul Mariani add to wishlist Mariani, an award-winning poet and author of a number of biographies of literary figures, brilliantly integrates Hopkins' spiritual life and his literary life to create a rich and compelling portrait of a man whose poetry continues to speak to readers a century after his death. see all copies from $6.30! new only from $6.62! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist From one of our greatest novelists comes this luminous portrait of the world's first literary rock star. see all copies from $11.08! new only from $14.29! \| SVS
8	William Wordsworth: A Life more books like this by Professor Stephen Gill add to wishlist Based on intimate knowledge of the poet's manuscripts, on a fresh look at contemporary records, and on a study of the mass of material that has appeared since the last serious biography, a quarter-century ago, this new account of Wordsworth focuses on what was most important to him - his life as a writer. The common notion is that the older ... see all copies from $2.06! new only from $46.65! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Wordsworth: A Life more books like this by Juliet Barker add to wishlist 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 Church, he went instead to Revolutionary France, where he fathered an illegitimate daughter and became a committed Republican. His poetry was as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Dante Gabriel Rossetti : painter and poet more books like this by Jan Marsh add to wishlist Born in London in 1828, of British and Italian parentage, DGR became a pupil of Ford Madox Brown and later formed the PRB to effect a revolution in English painting and poetry. His work in both forms was detailed, symbolic, mystical, and sometimes erotic. He was involved with two of the PRB 'stunners', first Lizzie Siddal who died of a laudanum ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $68.24!
11 view cover	Lord of the Dead the Secret History of Byron more books like this by Tom Holland add to wishlist Lord Bryron becomes a vampire when visiting Greece. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works more books like this by Catherine Phillips (Editor), Gerard Manley Hopkins add to wishlist This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together all Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to give the essence of his work and thinking. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth ... see all copies from $7.41! new only from $8.48!
13 view cover	Lives of the English poets more books like this by Samuel Johnson add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BLACKMOKE. Sib Richard Blackmobb is one of those men whose writings have attracted much notice, but of whose life and manners very little has been communicated, and ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $12.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats more books like this by John Keats, Edward Hirsch (Introduction by), Jim Pollock (Notes by) add to wishlist 'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic "Hyperion." Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted ... see all copies from $8.31! new only from $9.21! \| SVS
15 view cover	Letters of John Keats more books like this by John Keats add to wishlist General and students of nineteenth-century English literature and history. see all copies from $8.63! new only from $30.98! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent more books like this by Jad Adams add to wishlist Ernest Dowson, the subject of this biography, was one of the major poets of the romantic late-Victorian Decadent period. He died in 1900 at the age of 32. His life is both a story of doomed love and one of a man's struggle to create beauty in the face of adversity: Dowson was an alcoholic and a severe depressive who created much of his best work ... see all copies from $2.73! new only from $3.98! \| first editions
17 view cover	Chatterton more books like this by Peter Ackroyd add to wishlist The mystery of Chatterton is investigated by two Londoners, a young poet and an elderly female novelist, who find more riddles than answers from their search. At once hilarious, this entertaining comedy is a thoughtful exploration of the deepest issues of both life and art. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Letters of Ted Hughes more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other ... see all copies from $18.99! new only from $20.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	John Keats: The Making of a Poet more books like this by Aileen Ward add to wishlist see all copies from $3.95! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman more books like this by A E Housman add to wishlist "The Collected Poems" constitutes the authorized canon of A.E. Housman's verse as established in 1939, three years after his death. It contains "A Shropshire Lad" (1939), "Last Poems" (1922), "More Poems" (1936), the "Additional Poems," and three translations from A.W. Pollard's anthology, "Odes from the Greek Dramatists" (1890). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Coleridge: 2early Visions more books like this by Richard Holmes add to wishlist This biography considers Coleridge as a man apart from his writings. Holmes' objective is to give an impression of what the poet was like in person and as a conversationalist. Holmes reveals him to be disorganized, slothful, neurotically anxious and overly dependent on others. The book won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The author has ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	So Idle a Rogue: The Life and Death of Lord Rochester more books like this by Jeremy Lamb add to wishlist Written with sympathy and verve, this biography of Rochester was well received when it was first published. The name of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, is synonymous with excess. One of the brightest and most outrageous luminaries at the court of Charles II, he was to drink himself to death by the age of 33. Notorious libertine, certainly; ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $5.19! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography more books like this by Stanley Plumly add to wishlist "Posthumous Keats" is the result of twenty years of reflection on the enduring afterlife of one of England's greatest Romantic poets. John Keats' famous epitaph - 'Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water' - helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius cut off before his time. Keats, who died of tuberculosis at twenty-five, saw ... see all copies from $11.27! new only from $11.27! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt more books like this by Elizabeth Harman Pakenham Longford add to wishlist Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 1840-1922, was one of England's true eccentrics: a wildly individual, larger-than-life personality who was as admired as he was disliked. A writer, poet, rebel, politician and explorer, his controversial life was in every sense a 'pilgrimage of passion'. He campaigned tirelessly for the independence of Egypt, India and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Journey to the frontier; two roads to the Spanish Civil War more books like this by Peter Stansky, William Miller Abrahams add to wishlist A classic account of England between the wars and the '30's generation', this remarkably engaging book examines the lives of two young English poets, Julian Bell and John Cornford, who died fighting against fascism in the Spanish civil war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.62! \| first editions \| SVS

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