Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
By: Lucasta Miller
4.11
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUAR…
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1. Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
By: Daisy Hay
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from a… read more
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2. A Poetry Handbook
By: Mary Oliver
4.22
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"(...) A Poetry Handbook was written with writers of poetry most vividly in my mind; their needs an… read more
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"A poem on the page speaks to the listening mind."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
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3. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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4. The Faerie Queene
By: Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
The Faerie Queenewas the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the languag… read more
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5. The Riddle of the Third Mile (Inspector Morse, #6)
By: Colin Dexter
3.24
Format: None pages,
Inspector Morse isn't sure what to make of the truncated body found dumped in the Oxford Canal. He … read more
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6. Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
By: Stanley Plumly
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Posthumous Keatsis the result of Stanley Plumly's twenty years of reflection on the enduring afterl… read more
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7. On Elizabeth Bishop
By: Colm Tóibín
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of on… read more
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8. Lyrical Ballads
By: William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , None
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly … read more
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9. John Keats: A New Life
By: Nicholas Roe
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of h… read more
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11. Keats
By: Andrew Motion
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Andrew Motion's dramatic narration of Keats's life is the first in a generation to take a fresh loo… read more
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12. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more
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13. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
14. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
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"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
15. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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16. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
By: Ada Calhoun
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relation… read more
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17. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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18. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
By: Heather Clark
4.58
Format: 1154 pages, ebook
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material,… read more
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"I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force."-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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19. The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries #6)
By: P.J. Fitzsimmons
4.43
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
In The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich, Anty travels to the timeless source waters of Glen Glennegi… read more
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20. This Is Shakespeare
By: Emma Smith
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws,… read more
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"Shakespeare is complex, like living, not technically and crackably difficult, like crosswords or changing the time on the cooker"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
"The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture, the study and performance of Shakespeare, and our …"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
"Even though – perhaps because – we are in no doubt about his ruthless self-interest, Richard establishes an immediate alliance from the outset. This intimacy with the audience will be carefully manag…"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
"You may recall – perhaps you’ve experienced this in the theatre – the bewilderingly oblique way Shakespeare tends to begin his plays, via marginal characters whom we struggle to place as they recount…"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
21. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
By: Bettany Hughes
4.02
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Th… read more
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22. Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
By: Richard Overy
4.29
Format: 982 pages, Kindle Edition
'Overy has written many fine books, but Blood and Ruins is his masterpiece. It puts all previous si… read more
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23. Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
By: Sarah Hart
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning.” ―Jordan Elle… read more
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24. The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
By: Matthew Hollis
3.93
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Renowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral d… read more
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25. Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
By: Cecelia Watson
3.67
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuat… read more
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26. Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
By: Anahid Nersessian
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
“ When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over—like t… read more
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"I love Keats not because I belong in his poetry, but because his poetry wants so much to belong to us"-Anahid Nersessian, Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
27. Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
By: Lucasta Miller
4.11
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
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28. Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
By: Jackie Kay
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s Nat… read more
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29. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
By: Azar Nafisi
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power… read more
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"Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
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"In democratic societies, we do not normally resort to physical violence to muffle those with ideas, but we do use other forms of violence: prejudice, censorship, and slander."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
30. The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite
By: Laura Freeman
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
At the age of fourteen, Laura Freeman was diagnosed with anorexia. She had seized the one aspect of… read more
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31. Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
By: Jonathan Bate
3.94
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘For a… read more
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