Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets

Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets

Sir Andrew Motion
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Author:  Sir Andrew Motion
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  288
Publisher:  Faber & Faber
Year:  2008
ISBN:  9780571223657

Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, but alongside his work as a poet he also had a significant career as a prize-winning biographer and an illuminating critic. Ways of Life celebrates this talent with a selection of his articles about painters and poets, as well as a number of striking personal pieces. The literary essays in Ways of Life look at a wide assortment of writers, from John Clare and Ivor Gurney, to marginal figures such as Leigh Hunt and Joseph Severn, and reassess the less well-known work of celebrated writers including John Donne, Christina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy. Ways of Life is an original, acute and emotionally-charged collection of writings, from a truly important and insightful writer.

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