Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time

Author: Byatt, A S

Brand: VINTAGE

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 19-07-1997

Part Number: 1

Details: Product Description
Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A. S. Byatt brings alive this tumultuous period and shows a deep understanding of the effects upon the minds of Wordsworth, Coleridge and their contemporaries - de Quincey, Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron and Keats.
Review
Critically acute and full of imaginative insight... Her scholarship is up to date, and her comments on the social history of the period are cogent and erudite ―
Times Literary Supplement

She is the best kind of critic because she judges an author on his or her own terms... The great merit of Byatt's writing - fiction and essays - is that it continually engages the reader's mind ―
Daily Telegraph

A subtle and scholarly work ―
Sunday Times
From the Inside Flap
With a novelist's insight and eye for detail A. S. Byatt examines the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, against the background of the great changes of their times -- in society, politics, education and literature. As she charts their personal lives, traces thegrowth of their ideas and shows how these are reflected in their work, we are presented with vivid pictures, not only of Wordsworth and Coleridge, but of their families, friends and contempories -- Southey, de Quincey, Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron and Keats.
About the Author
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include
Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and
The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

EAN: 9780099302230

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.0 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English