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Ways of Life
Sir Andrew Motion
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Description for Ways of Life
Hardcover. A selection of the articles of a Poet Laureate. It looks 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. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 412.
Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, but alongside his work as a poet he also had a significant career as a prize-winning biographer and an illuminating critic. Ways of Life celebrates this talent with a selection of his articles about painters and poets, as well as a number of striking personal pieces. 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 ... Read more
Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, but alongside his work as a poet he also had a significant career as a prize-winning biographer and an illuminating critic. Ways of Life celebrates this talent with a selection of his articles about painters and poets, as well as a number of striking personal pieces. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571223657
SKU
V9780571223657
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About Sir Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He has published a number of poetry collections and novels, as well as a memoir, In The Blood, described as "the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read" ... Read more
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