Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop

by Jonathan Ellis

Book Overview

The first book to look at poets' letters seriously as an art form
Fifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last two hundred years. They range from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth-century to Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the twentieth. In doing so, they respond to the following questions. Who are the great letter writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474414125
• ISBN13: 9781474414128
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"