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Letter Writing Among Poets : From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop / Jonathan Ellis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 1 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748681327
  • 9780748681334
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: ‘For what is a letter?’ -- PART I: CONTEXTS AND ISSUES -- 1 Dangerous Letters: A Biographer’s Perspective -- 2 Editing Poems in Letters -- 3 Editing Twentieth-Century Letters: The Road to Words in Air -- 4 Just Letters: Corresponding Poets -- PART II: ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN LETTER WRITING -- 5 Wordsworth’s Sweating Pages: The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth -- 6 The Oakling and the Oak: The Tragedy of the Coleridges -- 7 ‘Any thing human or earthly’: Shelley’s Letters and Poetry -- 8 ‘Another sort of writing’? Invalidism and Poetic Labour in the Letters of Elizabeth Barrett -- 9 Passion and Playfulness in the Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins -- PART III: TWENTIETH-CENTURY LETTER WRITING -- 10 The Gift of George Yeats -- 11 Epistolary Psychotherapy: The Letters of Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin -- 12 Lorine Niedecker’s Republic of Letters -- 13 ‘Wherever you listen from’: W. S. Graham and the Art of the Letter -- 14 Fire Balloons: The Letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop -- 15 Last Letters: Keats, Bishop and Hughes -- Index
Summary: The first book to look at poets’ letters seriously as an art formGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748681327','ISBN:9780748681334']);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 of the past? Why is reading other people’s mail so addictive? What is the relationship between letter writing and other literary genres such as poetry? Divided into three sections—Contexts and Issues, Romantic and Victorian Letter Writing, and Twentieth-Century Letter Writing—the volume demonstrates that real letters still have an allure that virtual post struggles to replicate.Key Features:A comprehensive collection of essays on the art and genre of letter writing among Romantic, Victorian and Twentieth Century poetsContributors are leading international biographers, critics and poets, including Hermione Lee, Paul Muldoon, Daniel Karlin, Hugh Haughton, Anne Fadiman, Edna Longley and Angela LeightonAn absorbing history of literary friendship, literary love, and literary rivalryA sensitive study of the often close relationship between letter writing and poetry"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: ‘For what is a letter?’ -- PART I: CONTEXTS AND ISSUES -- 1 Dangerous Letters: A Biographer’s Perspective -- 2 Editing Poems in Letters -- 3 Editing Twentieth-Century Letters: The Road to Words in Air -- 4 Just Letters: Corresponding Poets -- PART II: ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN LETTER WRITING -- 5 Wordsworth’s Sweating Pages: The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth -- 6 The Oakling and the Oak: The Tragedy of the Coleridges -- 7 ‘Any thing human or earthly’: Shelley’s Letters and Poetry -- 8 ‘Another sort of writing’? Invalidism and Poetic Labour in the Letters of Elizabeth Barrett -- 9 Passion and Playfulness in the Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins -- PART III: TWENTIETH-CENTURY LETTER WRITING -- 10 The Gift of George Yeats -- 11 Epistolary Psychotherapy: The Letters of Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin -- 12 Lorine Niedecker’s Republic of Letters -- 13 ‘Wherever you listen from’: W. S. Graham and the Art of the Letter -- 14 Fire Balloons: The Letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop -- 15 Last Letters: Keats, Bishop and Hughes -- Index

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The first book to look at poets’ letters seriously as an art formGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748681327','ISBN:9780748681334']);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 of the past? Why is reading other people’s mail so addictive? What is the relationship between letter writing and other literary genres such as poetry? Divided into three sections—Contexts and Issues, Romantic and Victorian Letter Writing, and Twentieth-Century Letter Writing—the volume demonstrates that real letters still have an allure that virtual post struggles to replicate.Key Features:A comprehensive collection of essays on the art and genre of letter writing among Romantic, Victorian and Twentieth Century poetsContributors are leading international biographers, critics and poets, including Hermione Lee, Paul Muldoon, Daniel Karlin, Hugh Haughton, Anne Fadiman, Edna Longley and Angela LeightonAn absorbing history of literary friendship, literary love, and literary rivalryA sensitive study of the often close relationship between letter writing and poetry"

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