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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834 Donne, John 1572-1631 Gays Great Britain Fiction Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1844-1889 Fiction Poets, English Poets, English 19th century Biography Poets, English 19th century Correspondence Poets, English 20th century Fiction Psychiatrists Great Britain Fiction World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain FictionHewitt, Seán
Summary: "When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEWITT, SEAN HEWRundell, Katherine
Summary: Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DONNE, JOHN RUNSampson, Fiona
Summary: "A nuanced, comprehensive portrait of Britain's most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT SAMSharratt, Mary
Summary: Disguising herself as a man to escape her loveless marriage and enjoy the exclusive freedoms of men, aspiring writer Aemilia Lanier falls in love and runs away with ragged poet William Shakespeare, with whom she secretly writes plays that bring him fame years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASummary: This comprehensive guide to modern poetry in English covers 1,500 poets, including poets from Britain, America, New Zealand, Trinidad, and Zimbabwe. Many of the contributors are themselves celebrated poets, including Tom Paulin and Seamus Heaney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 OXFFunk, Carla
Summary: "A funny and whip-smart memoir about a feisty young woman's quest for independence in an isolated Mennonite community. Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging ever closer to the flames. Coming of age in a remote and forested valley--a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands--she knows her destiny is to marry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FUNK, CARLA FUNMiller, Lucasta
Summary: "A new biography of John Keats that uncovers the reality of his imagination within the context of his time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEATS, JOHN MILSummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRIFlannagan, Roy.
Summary: Using current critical perspectives, this introduction to John Milton, and to his prose and poetry, presents him as a radical social theorist. Its emphasis is on a clear presentation of this complex and sophisticated author and his works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.4 FLAStubbs, John
Summary: Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets, concentrating the paradoxes of his age within his own crises of desire and devotion. Following Donne from plague-ridden streets to palaces, from the taverns on the Bankside to the pulpit of St. Paul's, John Stubbs's biography is a vivid portrait of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DONNE, JOHN STUAuden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 AUDAckroyd, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 ACKBarker, Pat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Press 1997
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARBrowning, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.8 BROHansen, Ron
Summary: Exiled for their religious beliefs in 1875, five nuns embark on a voyage to America, only to lose their lives when the ship runs aground, in a tale that inspires a grand poem by a doomed priest and Oxford scholar living in literary exile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHughes, Gerald
Summary: "[Examines the] shared childhood between Gerald Hughes and his younger brother Ted, one of the finest and best-loved poets of modern times ... Hughes brings alive a period when the two brothers would roam the countryside, camping, making fires, pitching tents, hunting rabbits, rats, wood pigeon, and stoats ... Gerald describes watching his brother evolving into a great poet and describes them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HUGFoulds, Adam
Summary: It's 1837, and poet John Clare has been put in a mental institution outside London called High Beach. Soon another writer arrives on the scene-- one Alfred, Lord Tennyson-- and their lives become entwined with High Beach's strange owner.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOUMoshenska, Joe
Summary: In this brilliant biography, an acclaimed Oxford professor rediscovers a poet whose rich contradictions confound his monumental image and immerses us in the rhythms and textures of his world, from his childhood into his idiosyncratic belief system and his strange, electrifying imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILTON, JOHN MOSWillig, Lauren.
Summary: An atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILBarker, Pat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, c1993 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARRoe, Nicholas.
Summary: Offers a biography of the nineteenth century poet, offering insights into the details of his early life in London, the torments that affected him, and the imaginative sources of his works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEATS, JOHN ROESisman, Adam.
Summary: Traces the friendship and collaborations of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from their initial encounter as young men in 1795, to their creation of "Lyrical Ballads," to their role in initiating England's Romantic Movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.709 SISHolmes, Richard
Contents: v. 1. Early visions -- v. 2. Darker reflections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1999