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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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West-country poets: their lives and works. Being an account of about four hundred verse writers of Devon and Cornwall, with poems and extracts

West-country poets: their lives and works. Being an account of about four hundred verse writers of Devon and Cornwall, with poems and extracts

H. Kearley Wright, W.

Paperback

MusiciansGeneral PoetryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 938924711X
ISBN13: 9789389247114
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 29 2019
Pages: 502
Weight: 2.54
Height: 1.01 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Step off the main literary roads and into the lanes of West Country England. Names you have never heard. In West-country poets: their lives and works, W. H. Kearley Wright gathers the Devon and Cornwall poets who shaped parish reading rooms, chapels, newspapers, and drawing rooms, and sets them beside the better-known voices of their day. It is a guide to hidden reputations, and a portrait of literary life on the peninsula. Part biographical dictionary of poets, part regional poetry anthology, this Victorian literary reference offers concise verse writers biographies for around four hundred writers, with selected poems and extracts to show each talent at work. You can dip in for a single parish poet, follow families and friendships across the counties, or trace how dialect, seafaring, mining, Methodism, and rural labour left their mark on the line. For local history researchers it is a trove of names, dates, and contexts; for English literature students it is a lively companion to the wider lives of British poets, widening the map beyond London and the universities. As a literary reference book and a work of British literary biography, it also invites sharper English poetry criticism: how reputation is made, how it fades, and what survives on the page. Keep it by your chair or desk, and open anywhere for a quick, surprising encounter. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure for readers who love discovery, and for classic-literature collectors building a library with real regional depth.

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