Looks closely at nine of his best known poems to see how this lower-middle-class outsider from a dysfunctional family became one of posterity’s darlings.
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
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A good new book on the Bloomsbury group and its visual aesthetic - the Omega Workshops and photography as well as their artistic contributions as painters, models, collectors and critics; in... read more
The Bloomsbury Look
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Uncovers the illicit affair between the novelist and the author's grandfather, Humphry House, which Parry discovered on being delivered a box of letters.
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen
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An incisive post-mortem on the state of the Victorian union, told (with a gossipy thrill) through the lives of five couples - Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, John Ruskin and Effie Gray, Charl... read more
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
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An exploration of the friendship and rivalry of these two poets, who met weekly at the Ritz (for a while) to discuss sex, suicide, mental health and other mutual preoccupations.