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.
| ISBN: | 9780571223657 |
| Publication date: | 18th September 2008 |
| Author: | Sir Andrew Motion |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Biographies & Autobiographies Literary studies: poetry and poets |