Starlight Wood
walking back to the romantic countryside
$59.76
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
19 December 2022
Summary
Starlight Wood: Walking in the Footsteps of the Romantics
‘A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue that seeks to restore to Romanticism its radicalism, and also show just how much the countryside shaped its manifesto’ Hephzibah Anderson, *Mail on Sunday*
We think we know the Romantic countryside: that series of picturesque landscapes familiar from paintings, poems and music that are still part…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472156020 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472156021 |
| Author: | Fiona Sampson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 19 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 142mm x 36mm |
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Critics Review
A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue… Accompany Sampson on her varied rambles you’ll find your eyes opened anew to the beauty not only of nature, but also of creative engagement with every aspect of the world * Mail on Sunday *‘Rigorous scholarship and extensive biographical knowledge underpin Sampson’s text… entertaining and illuminating… arresting’ * Times Literary Supplement *‘There are fine evocations of place and season… It has so much to offer the reader’ * Literary Review *[An] eloquent, evocative meditation * Saga *
About The Author
Fiona Sampson
Professor Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL is a leading British poet published in thirty-eight languages. Come Down (2020) was awarded the Naim Frasheri Laureateship, the European Lyric Atlas Prize and Wales Poetry Book of the Year. A biographer and critic, librettist and literary translator, her In Search of Mary Shelley was internationally acclaimed, and Two-Way Mirror: The life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2021) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Washington Post Book of the Year, a Sunday Times Paperback of the Year, and finalist for the Plutarch Prize and the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
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