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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
[2026]
Language
English
Description
"Emily Brontë was only twenty-seven-years old when she started work on one of the most important novels in the English language. In two years, she completed Wuthering Heights in 1847, while the world took almost a hundred years to catch up. It has taken the world even longer to know Brontë-enigmatic, less initially renowned than sister Charlotte of JANE EYRE fame, and with a legacy marred by the loss (and likely destruction) of almost all her personal...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Description
"In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive and highly emotional man haunted by the great intellectual and scientific issues of his time"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Publication Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of medieval English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, including his childhood in London, his life at court, and his writing of "The Canterbury Tales."
4) Auden
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Description
Peter Ackroyd's compelling portrait of W. H. Auden, poet of a restless century. Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant. This critical biography explores the evolution of his poetic voice in tandem with his shifting beliefs--existentialism, Marxism, Freudianism, and Anglo-Catholicism--reflecting the intellectual climate of the century. Rooted in English traditions, Auden's work reveals...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Description
"Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult. His parents were not really cut out for the job of having children. ... This is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It's about being a cartoonist and a care assistant. It's about family. It's about knickerbocker glories and heart surgery, about papier mãche and mental breakdown and great white sharks. It's about how art, in all its varied forms,...
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Edward Lear popularized the limerick as we know it and invented the modern literary genre of nonsense, made famous by Lewis Carroll. But did you know that as a teenager, he was a natural history artist on par with John J. Audubon? He has a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, placing him among the UK's most important authors. Yet even still, Lear seems underappreciated. This picture-book biography will change all of that. Not only does...