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LETTER WRITING AMONG POETS
Jonathan Ellia
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Description for LETTER WRITING AMONG POETS
Hardcover. Offers a collection of essays on the art and genre of letter writing among Romantic, Victorian and Twentieth Century poets. This book provides a history of literary friendship, love, and rivalry. It is a study of the often close relationship between letter writing and poetry. Editor(s): Ellis, Jonathan. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 548.
The first book to look at poets' letters seriously as an art form. It offers 15 enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last two hundred years. They range from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the 19th century to Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the 20th. In doing so, they respond to the following questions. Who are the great letter writers of the past? Why is reading other people's mail so addictive? What is the relationship between letter writing and other literary genres such as poetry? Divided into three ... Read more
The first book to look at poets' letters seriously as an art form. It offers 15 enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last two hundred years. They range from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the 19th century to Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the 20th. In doing so, they respond to the following questions. Who are the great letter writers of the past? Why is reading other people's mail so addictive? What is the relationship between letter writing and other literary genres such as poetry? Divided into three ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748681327
SKU
V9780748681327
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Ref
99-15
About Jonathan Ellia
Jonathan Ellis is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Sheffield.
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