Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 4714
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.3366/edinburgh/9780748681327.001.0001
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474414128
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- In 2010-11 Ellis organised a widely-attended public lecture series which inspired this collection of essays. The series was sponsored by a British Academic Research Development Award. In addition to an introduction on the history and theorisation of letter writing (1-16), one of the first academic essays to consider poets' letters as a literary genre, and a chapter on the trope of last letters in the correspondence of John Keats, Elizabeth Bishop and Ted Hughes (231-245), Ellis commissioned, edited and gave feedback on the other 14 chapters in the collection. Letter Writing Among Poets is the first book to look at poets' letters as an art from. Poets discussed include Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the 19th century and Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the 20th. The contributors to the book are leading international biographers, critics and poets, including Dame Hermione Lee and Paul Muldoon, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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