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Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop
Jonathan Ellis
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Fifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine 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. 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 that virtual post struggles to replicate.
Fifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine 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. 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 that virtual post struggles to replicate.
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474414128
SKU
V9781474414128
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About Jonathan Ellis
Jonathan Ellis is Reader in American Literature at the University of Sheffield.
Reviews for Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop
-The fifteen essays in this volume consider letters written during the past two centuries, and shed light on the state of correspondence today. The editor, Jonathan Ellis, offers a gentle admonition to critics who mourn the 'lost world' before the internet (in the words of Rebecca Solnit), a time when everyone wrote at length and thought in depth... The scholarly ... Read more