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Examines letter writing among poets in the last 200 years. Poets discussed include Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth century and Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the twentieth century. Divided into three sections--Contexts and Issues, Romantic and Victorian Letter Writing and Twentieth-century Letter Writing--the volume demonstrates that real letters still have an allure.
Poets, English --- Authors, English --- Letter writing --- History. --- Biography --- Careers --- Exile --- Last years and death --- Marriage --- Youth
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Poets, Russian --- Poètes russes --- Biography --- Biographies --- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, --- Last years and death.
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Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the Second World War. From the time she left Portsmouth for London in the mid-1930s determined to become a famous writer, through her wartime years in the Balkans and the MiddleEast, and until her death in London in 1980, Olivia Manning was a dedicated and hard-working author. Married to a British Council lecturer stationed in Bucha
Authors, English --- Manning, Olivia --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Biography --- Careers --- Exile --- Last years and death --- Marriage --- Youth --- Smith, Olivia, --- Manning, Olivia.
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Robert Burns in Global Culture is a collection which breaks new ground in treating Burns' poetry and influence in an international context. Widely recognized as poet of global significance in the nineteenth century, Burns' reputation has suffered from the critical turns in Romanticism since 1945 and is only now beginning to be seen in its proper context. Following on from the celebrations across the world to mark Burns' 250th anniversary in 2009, this collection asks questions concerning the nature of Burns' global influence in the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth, examines the extra
Authors, English --- Biography --- Careers --- Exile --- Last years and death --- Marriage --- Youth --- Burns, Robert, --- Berns, Robert, --- Бернс, Роберт, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence.
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Authors, Austrian --- Kafka, Franz --- Last years --- Biography --- Last years and death --- -Austrian authors --- -Kafka, Franz --- -Biography --- -Last years and death --- Kafka, Franz, --- Last years. --- Ḳafḳa, Frants, --- Kʻapʻŭkʻa, --- Kafka, F. --- Kaphka, Phrants, --- Ḳafḳa, Amshel, --- Kafka, Franc, --- Kʻa-fu-kʻa, --- Kʻa-fu-kʻa, Fu-lang-tzʻu, --- Kāk̲apkā, --- Кафка, Франц, --- Кафка, Ф., --- フランツ・カフカ, --- קאפקא, פראנץ, --- קאפקא, פרנץ, --- קאפקה, פראנץ, --- קפקא, --- קפקא, פרנץ, --- كافكا، فرانتس، --- كفكا، فرنز، --- کافکا، فرانز، --- Authors, Austrian - 20th century - Biography --- Kafka, Franz, - 1883-1924 - Biography - Last years and death --- Kafka, Franz, - 1883-1924
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This collection of critical essays covers writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day.
English literature: authors --- English literature --- Authors, English --- Littérature anglaise --- Ecrivains anglais --- History and criticism --- Bio-bibliography --- Biography --- Histoire et critique --- Biobibliographie --- Biographie --- Littérature anglaise --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Careers --- Exile --- Last years and death --- Marriage --- Youth --- English literature - Bio-bibliography --- English literature - History and criticism --- Authors, English - Biography --- History and criticism.
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Authorship. --- Books and reading. --- Authors, English --- Authors, American --- Authors --- American authors --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Anecdotes. --- Biography --- Careers --- Exile --- Last years and death --- Marriage --- Youth --- Appraisal --- Evaluation
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As well as tracing Woolf's career as an activist across 45 years, this book also explores the consistent but often contradictory way in which this participation is written into a range of Woolf's short stories, novels and essays.
Women --- Authors, English --- Political activity --- History. --- Biography --- Careers --- Exile --- Last years and death --- Marriage --- Youth --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Woolf, Virginia --- Woolf, Virginia Stephen, --- Stephen, Virginia, --- Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, --- Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, --- Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, --- Вулф, Вирджиния, --- וולף, וירג׳יניה --- וולף, וירג׳יניה, --- Stephen, Adeline Virginia, --- Political activity. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Nobility --- Poets, English --- Noblesse --- Poètes anglais --- Biography --- Last years --- Relations with women --- Biographie --- Relations avec les femmes --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, --- Guiccioli, Teresa, --- Last years and death. --- Friends and associates. --- Relations with women. --- Dernières années et mort --- Amis et relations
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