The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably.
Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It...
The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown ...
This beautifully presented book contains for the first time the complete series of fifty-three illustrated letters written to his father by Richard Doyle, the precocious boy who would become famous for his Punch drawings ] Their reproduction here in all their elusive detail, scrupulously annotated by the editor, is both pleasurable and educative. Times Literary Supplement
Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard Dicky Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with...
This beautifully presented book contains for the first time the complete series of fifty-three illustrated letters written to his father by Richar...
