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A. D. Moody
The Fifties Pint Poet
Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry
By Philip Hobsbaum
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May 2019 Issue
Miranda Seymour
A Songbird in Knightsbridge
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’
By Lucasta Miller
LR
October 2000 Issue
Thomas Hodgkinson
But What Did They Eat?
The Immortal Dinner
By Penelope Hughes-Hallett
LR
November 2018 Issue
Seamus Perry
Hilltop Thoughts
O Joy for me! Samuel Taylor Coleridge & the Origins of Fell-walking in the Lake District, 1790–1802
By Keir Davidson
LR
October 2018 Issue
Rupert Christiansen
Sick Notes
Schumann: The Faces and the Masks
By Judith Chernaik
LR
August 2018 Issue
Frances Wilson
A Place in the Sun
The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination
By Robert Holland
July 1998 Issue
Michael Waterhouse
One of Literature’s Greatest Liars
Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny
By David Crane
August 1985 Issue
Andrew Graham-Dixon
Ragged Bunch of Romantics
The Re-Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable and Turner
By James A W Heffernan
January 1989 Issue
Antonia Doura
Frankenstein Psychoanalysed
Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters
By Anne K Mellor
October 2000 Issue
Rosemary Ashton
Steeped in Love
Wordsworth: A Life
By Juliet Barker
October 2000 Issue
Pamela Norris
She Longed for Security and Affection
Mary Shelley
By Miranda Seymour
December 2017 Issue
Nicholas Roe
The Birth of Romance
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
By Rachel Hewitt
LR
November 2016 Issue
Seamus Perry
Thrill of the Chase
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
By Richard Holmes
LR
November 1989 Issue
Paul Foot
A Hooded Eagle Among Blinking Owls
Coleridge: Early Visions
By Richard Holmes
LR
April 2016 Issue
Nicholas Roe
Obsession of an Opium-Eater
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
By Frances Wilson
September 2003 Issue
Adam Sisman
Lamb Stew
A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb
By Sarah Burton
LR
October 2003 Issue
Peter Washington
A Child Of Nature
John Clare
By Jonathan Bate
LR
December 2004 Issue
Peter Washington
Writer & Co
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
By William St Clair
LR
December 2004 Issue
Adam Sisman
A Mind Ablaze
The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By Kathleen Coburn, Merton Christensen, Antony John Harding (edd)
Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection
By Seamus Perry (ed)
LR
November 2014 Issue
Seamus Perry
Eat, Drink & Be Merry
The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb
By Stanley Plumly
LR
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