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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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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: literary

• Plný název: Stricken Deer
• Podnázev: Or the Life of William Cowper
• Autor: David Cecil
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 316
• EAN: 9780571251643
• ISBN: 0571251641
• ID: 04624003
• Nakladatelství: Faber & Faber
• Hmotnost: 346 g
• Rozměry: 128 × 200 × 54 mm
• Datum vydání: 21. May 2009

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