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10 best books like Shelley: The Pursuit (Richard Holmes): The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, Byron: Life and Legend, Keats, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster, T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge, John Donne: The Reformed Soul, Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert, The Life of Emily Dickinson

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
AuthorClaire Tomalin
ISBN0140167617
Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day.

She published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French feminist movement;...
Byron: Life and Legend
AuthorFiona MacCarthy
ISBN0571179975
An excellent biography of Byron - and I've read a few by now. To be honest, during Byron's early years I was feeling as if I'd read it all (or most of it) before. But during the later years, especially once he reaches Venice, the book really came into its own. I felt there was more depth, detail and interest...
Keats
AuthorAndrew Motion
ISBN0226542408
Andrew Motion's dramatic narration of Keats's life is the first in a generation to take a fresh look at this great English Romantic poet. Unlike previous biographers, Motion pays close attention to the social and political worlds Keats inhabited. Making incisive use of the poet's inimitable letters,...
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
AuthorWendy Moffat
ISBN0374166781
A REVELATORY LOOK AT THE INTIMATE LIFE OF THE GREAT AUTHOR—AND HOW IT SHAPED HIS MOST BE LOVED WORKS

With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel Maurice in 1970, E. M. Forster came out as a homosexual— though that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation....
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...
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...
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
AuthorAdam Sisman
ISBN0670038229
The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge

The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in England. Rarely have two such...
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...
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
AuthorJohn Drury
ISBN1846142482
For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language.

'Love bade me welcome . . .'

'Teach me my God and King . . .'


George...
The Life of Emily Dickinson
AuthorRichard B. Sewall
ISBN0674530802
The life of Emily Dickinson, Richard B. Sewall's monumental biography of the great American poet (1830-1886), won the National Book Award when it was originally published in two volumes. Now available in a one-volume edition, it has been called "by far the best and most complete study of the poet's...
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...
John Keats: A New Life
AuthorNicholas Roe
ISBN0300124651
This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure...
The Late Lord Byron (Neversink)
AuthorDoris Langley Moore
ISBN1935554484
“The best biography of Lord Byron ever written,” according to Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, is now back in print after decades.

Of the hundreds of books on Byron and his work, not one has been devoted to the immediate aftermath of his life; and yet it is these first twenty posthumous years that...
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
AuthorDaisy Hay
ISBN0374123756
Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective—celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism.

 The book focuses on the...
Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle
AuthorJanet Todd
ISBN1582433399
From the Romantic period's star circle, the story of its saddest casualty--Fanny Wollstonecraft, daughter of an original feminist, sister of a literary star, and hopeful object of a poet's affection, dead of suicide at the age of nineteen. Little contemporary information was written about Fanny...
Pages from the Goncourt Journals
AuthorEdmond de Goncourt
No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt

The journal of the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature, a work that in its richness of...
Voltaire in Love
AuthorNancy Mitford
ISBN0786706414
In 1733, the lovely, intelligent, and married Marquise du Châtelet commenced her romance with one François-Marie Arouet, a philosophe who had made a name for himself as "Voltaire." Mitford deftly and engagingly recounts their exemplary affair, whether in studious exile in the country, on the...
Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
AuthorElizabeth Hardwick
ISBN0940322781
The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work...
The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter
AuthorÉlisabeth Gille
ISBN1590174445
A New York Review Books Original
 
Élisabeth Gille was only five-years-old when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky, a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family,...
Eustace and Hilda
AuthorL.P. Hartley
ISBN0940322803
The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy: the two siblings could hardly be more...
Mary Shelley
AuthorMiranda Seymour
ISBN0802117023
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Mary Shelley has been called "a harrowing life, wonderfully retold" (The Washington Post). This "splendid biography" (The New Yorker) gracefully moves through the dramatic life of the woman behind history's most legendary...
Byron in Love
AuthorEdna O'Brien
ISBN0297855530
byron is just not that into you. it doesnt matter what you do - hes just not that into you. he might put his baby in you, but he will leave you as soon as you start going into labor and return later only to shoot bottles in your living room while you strain and bleed to produce a creature he will hardly look at. because...
Blake
AuthorPeter Ackroyd
ISBN0345376110
Born in 1757, the son of a London hosier was William Blake -- poet, painter, and engraver -- possessed one of the most original and fertile creative geniuses of his age. Yet his strange aloofness and claims of supernatural visions caused many in his own time and since to doubt his sanity, and much of his...
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
AuthorGeoffrey Wolff
ISBN1590170660
Includes an afterword by the author

Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs,...
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