Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #360524 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

CATHOLIC HERALD
"beautifully illustrated."

Review
"Wilson is excellent on Rosenberg's life and her comments on his poems are always grounded." (FRANCES SPALDING DAILY MAIL )

"admiring and devotedly researched, yet critical of his character... Moorcroft Wilson's account, incorporating new findings is the fullest we are ever likely to get of his life... well worth buying for its splendid reproductions of his drawing and paintings." (JOHN CAREY SUNDAY TIMES )

"this is a measured, thoroughly researched biography, incorporating much new material by and about the poet, which should be definitive. With this labour of love, sensitively and sensibly analysing the poetry, Moorcroft Wilson has now surely said the last word on this gifted by tragically unlucky figure." (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

"What has been needed is a single, definitive biography bringing together the differing strands of fact and interpretation, while building on the new material and analysis of recent years. Jean Moorcroft Wilson has supplied it." (VIVIEN NOAKES FINANCIAL TIMES )

"meticulous..... this book is a tremendous achievement of research, ye the story it tells is so very remarkable." (DAILY TELEGRAPH )

"This author said of her biography of the wealthy Siegfried Sassoon, " A study of his life is a study of an age". So is this one." (P J KAVANAGH THE SPECTATOR )

"... particularly good on his early painting ambitions." (THE INDEPENDENT )

"This is a better book than Moorcroft Wilson's biography of Sassoon." (LITERARY REVIEW )

Michael Rosen: "delightful to read... in a way I was reading about my grandparents... the other great thing about Jean's book is that she gets inside the poems and busts them apart in an utterly wonderful and ruthless way, it's quite an eyeopener... " (Michael Rosen NIGHTWAVES, BBC RADIO 3 )

"Wilson takes a fresh approach to the life of one of Britain's finest war poets looking not only at his military experiences but also his upbringing and love life." (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY )

"beautifully illustrated." (CATHOLIC HERALD )

FRANCES SPALDING, DAILY MAIL
"Wilson is excellent on Rosenberg's life and her comments on his poems are always grounded."