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Book reviews John Keats

Book review: ‘John Keats: Poetry, Life and Landscapes’ by Suzie Grogan

by Ian Reynolds In 2009, or thereabouts, I was in a charity shop and, somewhat on a whim, I bought…

Lynn Shepherd3rd February 2021

Book reviews William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Book review: 'William Wordsworth: A Life', by Stephen Gill

by Chris Townsend 250 years have passed since Wordsworth’s birth, and 31 years since the publication of Stephen Gill’s…

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Book reviews John Keats

Book Review: John Keats and the Medical Imagination, edited by Nicholas Roe

by Suzie Grogan For the Keats scholar, reader, aficionado, critic – new to the great man’s works, an enthusiast of…

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Book reviews Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Book review: In Search of Mary Shelley, by Fiona Sampson

by Barry Forshaw Does Mary Shelley need rescuing from neglect? Has the young woman who created the most iconic…

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Book reviews Mary Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Book review: Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years, by Christopher Frayling

by Barry Forshaw Given that the 1st of January 2018 is a significant literary date -- 200 years since the…

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Book reviews William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Book review: William Wordsworth: A Life by Stephen Gill

by Anna Mercer Stephen Gill’s biography of William Wordsworth is a carefully considered, detailed and incredibly readable account of the…

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Book reviews Wordsworth and Romanticism

Book reviews: The Poets' Daughters by Katie Waldegrave

For this post we have two different reviews of a new biography of Sara Coleridge and Dora Wordsworth: the first…

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Book reviews Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Book review: The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy and The Curse of Byron by Andrew McConnell Stott

By Pam Norfolk The famous meeting of literary minds at the Villa Diodati in the stormy summer of 1816 has…

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Book reviews Wordsworth and Romanticism

Book review: A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd

This book is now being republished as 'The Frankenstein Monster' Reviewed by Pam Norfolk He was one of England’s great…

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Book reviews

Book review: Unfashioned Creatures by Lesley McDowell

Review by Pam Norfolk ‘Love is merely a madness,’ wrote Shakespeare but it was the poets and writers of the…

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Book review: ‘John Keats: Poetry, Life and Landscapes’ by Suzie Grogan

Book review: 'William Wordsworth: A Life', by Stephen Gill

Book Review: John Keats and the Medical Imagination, edited by Nicholas Roe

Book review: In Search of Mary Shelley, by Fiona Sampson

Book review: Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years, by Christopher Frayling

Book review: William Wordsworth: A Life by Stephen Gill

Book reviews: The Poets' Daughters by Katie Waldegrave

Book review: The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy and The Curse of Byron by Andrew McConnell Stott

Book review: A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd

Book review: Unfashioned Creatures by Lesley McDowell

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