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Coleridge and the armoury of the human mind Peter J. Kitson · 1991 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate First published in 1991, this book collects a broad array of path-finding scholarship by specialists in Coleridge and Romantic literature on the subject of his prose. They range from broad appraisals of Coleridge’s own critical practises; demonstrations of the fecundity of his autobiography, the Biographia Literaria, for contemporaries; the effect of Milton and the radical polemicists of the… Shares: Poètes anglais, Coleridge, Autobiographies as Topic, English Poets

Autobiography and imagination John Pilling · 1981 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Moderate This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers – Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes. The author argues that often the writer has shaped his life through his craft, coming to understand the pattern of his own existence through the formalism of language. In each case the… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Imagination, Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

A preface to Wordsworth John Arthur Purkis · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Probably the most famous of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth worked with and influenced many of the leading poets of the age. This excellent introduction to his life and works sets his writing firmly in the context of his times. John Purkis provides an outline of Wordsworth's life and cultural background and their effect on his work, and examines his verse, from the earliest school poems to… Shares: Wordsworth, English Poets, Poets, Authors

Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth · 1798 · ★ 4.0 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry. Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of "Lyrical Ballads" allows modern readers to recapture the book's original impact. In these poems including Wordsworth's Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey and… Shares: Coleridge, Wordsworth, Histoire et critique, History and criticism

Cowper Goldwin Smith · 1800 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In this masterful biography, Goldwin Smith presents the life and works of William Cowper (1731-1800), whom Samuel Taylor Coleridge called “the best modern poet". Tracing Cowper's life—from his beginnings in England to his death—Smith analyzes his major lyrical works and as well as his hymns. Smith also offers an examination of the writer's lasting influence on Romantic poetry. Shares: English Poets, Poets, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Literary criticism William Wordsworth · 1905 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly began. As a young artist—already showing signs of being a gifted writer and thinker at St. John’s… Shares: Wordsworth, English Poets, History and criticism, Poetry

Early modern English lives Ronald Bedford · 2007 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate How did early modern English people write about themselves, and how do we listen to their voices four centuries later? The authors of Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660 argue that identity is depicted through complex, subtle, and often contradictory social interactions and literary forms. Diaries, letters, daily spiritual reckonings, household journals,… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Autobiographie, Histoire et critique, History and criticism

Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1796 · ★ 3.8 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Demanding Introduces the life of author Samuel Taylor Coleridge and presents a sample of his poetry, including complete works and excerpts, with a brief, explanatory introduction to each. Shares: Coleridge, English Poets, Poets, Poetry

Tennyson Harold Nicolson · 1923 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victorias reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain… Shares: English Poets, Poets, Biography & Memoir

Robert Browning Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1903 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging On the subject of Browning's work innumerable things have been said and remain to be said; of his life, considered as a narrative of facts, there is little or nothing to say. It was a lucid and public and yet quiet life, which culminated in one great dramatic test of character, and then fell back again into this union of quietude and publicity. Shares: English Poets, Biography & Memoir

Auto/Biography Across the Americas Ricia A. Chansky · 2016 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Autobiographie, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Destiny Mahlon Palmer · 2016 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This book was written primarily for those young people, both boys and girls, and their parents and/or mentors who, for whatever reason, believe they have no chance at a successful life when born into poverty. This book is the story of a young boy who believed he was in that category while growing up. Dick's very best friend was his dog, King, who is on the cover of this book. Without King, Dick's… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

Design and truth in autobiography Roy Pascal · 1960 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be so popular? This study suggests some of the answers to these questions. It takes the view that autobiography is one of the dominant and characteristic forms of literary self-expression and deserves… Shares: Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

Poems Lord Byron · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Challenging xxiii, 222 p. ; 20 cm Shares: Poètes anglais, English Poets, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Inscribed Identities Joan Ramon Resina · 2019 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

Among my books James Russell Lowell · 1870 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A book of essays by American poet and writer James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). There are six essays: Dryden Witchcraft Shakespeare Once More New England Two Centuries Ago Lessing Rousseau and the Sentimentalists Shares: Poets, History and criticism, Poetry

Yeats's Autobiography Joseph Ronsley · 1968 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares: Poets, Authors, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Biographia literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817 · 442p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initially criticized as the product of Coleridge's opiate-driven descent into illness, more recent critics have given the work far more credit and recognition. The book is the origin of the well-known… Shares: Wordsworth, History and criticism, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

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