Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
05.04.2011
Verlag
Faber & FaberSeitenzahl
316
Maße (L/B/H)
19.8/12.6/2.2 cm
Gewicht
342 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-571-25164-3
First published in 1929, The Stricken Deer was the winner of that year´s James Tait Black Memorial Prize and also the Hawthornden Prize: it was David Cecil´s first book.
For a time, towards the end of the eighteenth-century, William Cowper was the foremost poet in England. But David Cecil´s biography doesn´t celebrate a life of success, rather, in Cowper´s own words, ´the strange and uncommon incidents of my life.´ Cowper suffered from severe bouts of depression. His personal tragedy however enriched English literature: the fear of madness made him turn to writing poetry as a form of mental discipline, and isolation for the great world and from his own kind helped him to become the most enchanting of letter-writers.
´This is a sympathetic and vivid biography; it is subtle with a kind of gentle acuteness and vivid without literary ostentation. It is the work of a biographer with a clear head and a clever heart ... the rarest of all merits is the sensitive fairness of the of the biographer´s estimate of character and situation throughout.´ Desmond MacCarthy, Sunday Times
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