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Opium and the Romantic Imagination
Häftad, 2009
360 kr
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Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were …
Voyage in Vain
Coleridge's Journey to Malta in 1804
Häftad, 2009
272 kr
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In the spring of 1804 Coleridge sailed to the Mediterranean in the hope of restoring his health, recreating his poetic energies and solving his emotional problems. During the voyage he kept a very detailed diary, and from this and from his and his friends' letters Alethea Hayter has painted a …
Horatio's Version
Häftad, 2010
279 kr
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What happened after the end of Hamlet, when the four corpses had been borne away? How did Horatio carry out the Prince's dying injunction to 'tell my story'? Alethea Hayter's narrative takes the form of the proceedings of a Court of Enquiry with Voltimand as Chairman, alternating with Horatio's …
Mrs Browning
A Poet's Work and Its Setting
Häftad, 2010
289 kr
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Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning has been the subject of many biographies her worth as a poet tends to be given short shrift. Her dramatic life-story has obscured her more lasting importance as a forceful and imaginative writer, a bold experimenter in language and poetic technique, an advocate …
Opium and the Romantic Imagination
E-bok, 2015
209 kr
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Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were …
Sultry Month
Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)
Häftad, 2022
150 kr
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Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo .'One of the most …
Sultry Month
Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and Steams . . . Beautifully Written.' (the Times)
E-bok, 2022
167 kr
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Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo .'One of the most …
Charlotte Yonge
Häftad, 1996
384 kr
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Charlotte Yonge, a best-seller admired by her greatest literary contemporaries in the mid-nineteenth century, but ignored or vilified by critics for the next hundred years, has recently received some attention from biographers, from historians of the Oxford Movement and of children’s literature, …
