Ways of Life

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, and has written acclaimed biographies of Philip Larkin and John Keats among others. His memoir of childhood, In the Blood , was published in 2006, and its sequel, Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry , appeared alongside Selected Poems: 1977 - 2022 in 2023. He is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Baltimore. Klappentext The literary essays in Ways of Life look at a wide assortment of writers! from John Clare and Ivor Gurney! to marginal figures such as Leigh Hunt and Joseph Severn! and reassess the less well-known work of celebrated writers including John Donne! Christina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy. Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets is a richly varied and rewarding collection of Andrew Motion's best critical writings. Zusammenfassung The literary essays in Ways of Life look at a wide assortment of writers, from John Clare and Ivor Gurney, to marginal figures such as Leigh Hunt and Joseph Severn, and reassess the less well-known work of celebrated writers including John Donne, Christina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Motion, Sir Andrew Motion
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2008
• EAN: 9780571223657
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22365-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literature; Painters; Writers