Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/14/2008
ISBN-13: 9780393067002
ISBN-10: 0393067009

A novel told from the point of view of Lord Byron's wife Annabella, who ruminates on the differences between her courtship at a distance with the larger-than-life literary figure and the realities of their marriage, which include debts, depressions, and a deep dark family secret.

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780316158725
ISBN-10: 0316158720

Matt, a university archivist, and Roberta, a willful young poet, become unlikely friends even as they duke it out over a sealed collection of T.S. Eliot's letters. Personal parallels between the characters and their subjects and the interweaving of emotion, philosophy and morality add depth to this story.

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/15/1997
ISBN-13: 9780395859971
ISBN-10: 0395859972

This novel recreates the life of 18th-century German romantic poet Friedrich von Hardenberg, known as Novalis, and the decision that shocked his social group: to marry a plain, 12-year-old girl. His desire is summarized by the story of the blue flower: "I have no craving to be rich, but I long to see the blue flower....I can imagine and think about nothing else."

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/13/2008
ISBN-13: 9780374150976
ISBN-10: 0374150974

Gerard Manley Hopkins and his poem "The Wreck of the Deutschland" are the dual subjects of this book; the writing of the poem and the event that spurred him to its creation (the sinking of a ship, whose victims included five Catholic nuns exiled from Germany) form the two threads that are woven together into the plot of this unique novel.

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/27/2008
ISBN-13: 9780670018666
ISBN-10: 067001866X

This tale of Robert Frost in his final year finds the poet a cantankerous old man, mourning the loss of the children who have predeceased him, yet still striving to make a difference in the world. He visits Russia to meet with Khruschev and vows to revive himself through his work.

Publisher: Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780060831196
ISBN-10: 0060831197

Abby's life is transformed when she discovers that a chamber pot bought at the Antiques Roadshow once belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning; this triggers a wild ride of events including a lawsuit over possession of said pot, a reporter who tries to court her, and a person from the past.

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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780312314408
ISBN-10: 031231440X

This novel about the marriage of Catherine and William Blake observes Kate's search for self in the shadow of her husband's genius and his bohemian world of unconventional principles and free love in the tumultuous 18th century.

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780312343682
ISBN-10: 031234368X

This novel is based on the lives of Keats, Shelley, and Lord Byron as seen through the eyes of the women in their lives: the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, the practically unknown Fanny Brawne, the intelligent bluestocking Mary Shelley and the boundary-breaking Augusta Leigh.

Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/04/2004
ISBN-13: 9781565124271
ISBN-10: 1565124278

Edgar Allan Poe had a love affair with the poet Fanny Osgood at a difficult time in his life; his literary star was on the rise but his finances and family situation were in ruins. This novel brings the relationship to life against the backdrop of Poe's personal turmoil in his final years.

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780312283759
ISBN-10: 031228375X

This recreation of Sylvia Plath's last months imagines her painfully giving life to her "Ariel" poems, divorcing Ted Hughes, and moving her children to London while struggling to maintain her mental balance, with famously tragic results.