The Short Sharp Life of T. E. Hulme

Informationen zum Autor Robert Ferguson was born in Blackpool in 1948. After completing Norwegian studies at University College in London, he took up a state scholarship in Norway in1983, and has since then lived in Oslo. Ferguson is an award-winning dramatist and has translated and adapted several of Ibsen's plays for the BBC. Apart from Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography he is also the author of two other highly acclaimed biographies, Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun and Henry Miller: A Life. Klappentext Prior to the First World War! T E Hulme was one of the most original and striking creative personalities in England! strongly admired by both Pound and Eliot. Yet he died in 1917! virtually unknown. This title presents his portrait. Zusammenfassung Unusually among poets of his generation, he was convinced of the rightness of Britain's role in the war (and criticised Bertrand Russell for his pacifism.) Robert Ferguson offers the first modern biography of Hulme, drawing upon access to Hulme's papers and later interviews with his associates. 'A humane, comprehensive biography...

Product details

• Authors: Robert Ferguson, Ferguson Robert
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2012
• EAN: 9780571295289
• ISBN: 978-0-571-29528-9
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Biography: writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets