Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay
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Category: Literary
'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats. In "Young Romantics", Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist ...Show more
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic by Michael Sims
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Category: Literary
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim- 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Pain ...Show more
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
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Category: Literary
For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem 'Ulysses' on lines from the Inferno and Byron chastised an 'Ungrateful Fl ...Show more