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Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert

10 best books like Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert (John Drury): Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World, Now All Roads Lead To France, T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, Pity the Beautiful: Poems, John Donne: The Reformed Soul, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, Young Eliot: A Biography, The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
AuthorLeo Damrosch
ISBN0300164998
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became...
Now All Roads Lead To France
AuthorMatthew Hollis
ISBN0571245986
Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in the war.

The book also evokes an astonishingly...
T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
AuthorLyndall Gordon
ISBN0393320936
In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" (The New Yorker), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" (Boston Globe). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in full...
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
AuthorStephen Greenblatt
ISBN0226306593
Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and...
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
AuthorStanley Plumly
ISBN0393065731
Posthumous Keats is the result of Stanley Plumly's twenty years of reflection on the enduring afterlife of one of England's greatest Romanticists. John Keats's famous epitaph—"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water"—helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius cut off before...
Pity the Beautiful: Poems
AuthorDana Gioia
ISBN1555976131
The long-awaited fourth collection by one of America's foremost poets

 

O Lord of indirection and ellipses,
ignore our prayers. Deliver us from distraction.
Slow our heartbeat to a cricket's call.
  --from “Prophecy”
 

Pity the Beautiful is...
John Donne: The Reformed Soul
AuthorJohn Stubbs
ISBN0393062600
Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets, concentrating the paradoxes of his age within his own crises of desire and devotion. Following Donne from Plague-ridden streets to palaces, from the taverns...
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
AuthorBenita Eisler
ISBN0679740856
In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context...
Young Eliot: A Biography
AuthorRobert Crawford
ISBN0374279446
A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most important poets

On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a definitive biography of this poetic genius. Young Eliot traces the life of the twentieth century’s...
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens
AuthorPaul Mariani
ISBN1451624379
A perceptive, enlightening biography of one the most important American poets of the twentieth century—Wallace Stevens—as seen through his lifelong quest to find and describe the sublime in the human experience.

Wallace Stevens lived a richly imaginative life that found expression...
Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning
AuthorOwen Barfield
Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination" and produce pleasure in a receptive reader. Returning always to this personal experience of poetry, Owen Barfield at the same time seeks objective...
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity
AuthorPrue Shaw
ISBN0871407426
Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.
This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the...
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
AuthorRichard Holmes
ISBN0375708383
Richard Holmes's Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, the long-awaited second volume, chronicles the last thirty years of his career (1804-1834), a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage foundered, his opium...
Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
AuthorJonathan Bate
ISBN1400062063
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”

In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s...
The World of Christopher Marlowe
AuthorDavid Riggs
ISBN0805080368
"Riggs brings it all together brilliantly, assembling all evidence of Marlowe's life and adding to that a wider and deeper focus . . . Superb."--Los Angeles Times

The World of Christopher Marlowe is the story of the troubled genius, raised in the stench and poverty of Canterbury's abbatoirs,...
Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis
AuthorJohn Piper
ISBN1433542943
Herbert - Whitefield - Lewis

In the sixth volume of the Swans Are Not Silent series, John Piper celebrates the importance of poetic effort by looking at three influential Christians whose words magnificently display a commitment to truth and a love of beauty.

Examining the lives...
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
AuthorW.H. Auden
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom...
Rodinsky's Room
AuthorRachel Lichtenstein
ISBN1862073295
David Rodinsky lived above a synagogue in the heart of the old Jewish East End of London, and sometime in the late 1960s he disappeared. His room, a chaos of writings, annotated books and maps, gramophone records and clothes, was left undisturbed for 20 years. Rodinsky's world captured the imagination...
Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War
AuthorLucy Hughes-Hallett
ISBN0307263932
Godfather to Mussolini, national hero of Italy and the WWI irredentist movement, literary icon of Joyce and Pound, lover of actress Eleonora Duse: here is Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s extraordinary biography of Gabriele d’Annunzio, poet, bon vivant, harbinger of Italian fascism.

Gabriele...
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
AuthorJohn Eliot Gardiner
ISBN0375415297
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate?

John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing...
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