The Stricken Deer : Or the Life of William Cowper Paperback / softback
by Lord David Cecil
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:316 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:21/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780571251643
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:316 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:21/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780571251643