| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Contexts and issues. Dangerous letters : a biographer's perspective -- Editing poems in letters -- Editing twentieth-century letters : the road to Words in air -- Just letters : corresponding poets -- Romantic and Victorian letter writing. Wordsworth's sweating pages : the love letters of William and Mar Wordsworth -- The oakling and the oak : the tragedy of the Coleridges -- 'Anything human or earthly' : Shelley's letters and poetry -- 'Another sort of writing'? Invalidism and poetic labour in the letters of Elizabeth Barrett -- Passion and playfulness in the letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Twentieth-century letter writing. The gift of George Yeats -- Epistolary psychotherapy : the letters of Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin -- Lorine Niedecker's Republic of letters -- 'Wherever you listen from' : W.S. Graham and the art of the letter -- Fire balloons : the letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop -- Last letters : Keats, Bishop and Hughes. |
| Summary |
Examines 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 century. 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. StEdNL |
| Subject |
Poets, English -- Biography.
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Authors, English -- Biography.
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Letter writing -- History.
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Authors, English. (OCoLC)fst00821945
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Letter writing. (OCoLC)fst00996699
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Poets, English. (OCoLC)fst01067870
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Author |
Ellis, Jonathan, 1975-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Letter writing among poets 9780748681327 (OCoLC)884817917 |
| ISBN |
9780748681334 (electronic bk.) |
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0748681337 (electronic bk.) |
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