Walking Wounded - The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell

This uncompromising literary biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also the story of a poet.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

John Carey: Foreword; Chapter One: Beginnings; Chapter Two: Aylesbury; Chapter Three: The Long and Lovely Summer; Chapter Four: Gone for a Soldier; Chapter Five: Military Prison; Chapter Six: Back in Action; Chapter Seven: On the Run; Chapter Eight: Court Martial Again; Chapter Nine: Marriage; Chapter Ten: Schoolmaster; Chapter Eleven: Falling Apart; Chapter Twelve: A Proper Gentleman; Chapter Thirteen: Young Love; Chapter Fourteen: Otley; Chapter Fifteen: Last Love; Chapter Sixteen: Afterword

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Andrew Taylor is the author of ten books, including biographies of the Arabian traveller Charles Doughty and the 16th Century cartographer Gerard Mercator, as well as books on language, literature, poetry and, history. He studied English Literature at Oxford University and worked as a Fleet Street and BBC television journalist in London and the Middle East before returning to Britain in the 1990s to concentrate on his writing career.

Zusammenfassung

This uncompromising literary biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also the story of a poet.

Zusatztext

This exemplary biography ... [is] told by Taylor with supreme narrative skill.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James Andrew Taylor, Taylor James Andrew
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 09.09.1987
• EAN: 9780198728320
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872832-0
• Seiten: 442
• Themen: Sachbuch > Kunst, Literatur > Biographien, Autobiographien; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets