| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
Andrew Motion
new books, used books, rare books by Andrew Motion
› Find all books by 'Andrew Motion' and compare prices› Find signed collectible books by 'Andrew Motion'
Collins Dictionary for Writers and EditorsISBN 0007203500 (0-00-720350-0)
Softcover, Collins Harvill
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Collins Dictionary for Writers and Editors'More editions of Collins Dictionary for Writers and Editors:
Collins Rhyming DictionaryISBN 0007209967 (0-00-720996-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Collins Rhyming Dictionary'More editions of Collins Rhyming Dictionary:
-
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Deaths Duel: With the Life of Dr. John DonneISBN 0375705481 (0-375-70548-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Deaths Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne'Book summary:Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel, one of the handsome series of Vintage Spiritual Classics, contains a rich collection of extraordinary writings, any one of which would be worth the price of the whole book. Andrew Motion's clear, accessible, entertaining, and erudite introduction explains the situation of both Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions--written in 1624, when Donne was feeble with a fever that doctors believed might kill him--and Death's Duel--Donne's final sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral, preached only a month before his death at age 59. Also included is Izaak Walton's The Life of Dr. John Donne, a spry and penetrating biography of the poet, written in 1640. And then there is the meat: both Devotions and Death's Duel show Donne at his very best--theatrical, humble, faithful, and doubting all at once. This is a book of severe and joyful mortality. Here is a foretaste from Devotions: "Death is in an old man's door, he appears and tells him so, and death is at a young man's back, and says nothing.... There is scarce anything that hath not killed somebody; a hair, a feather hath done it; nay, that which is our best antidote against it hath done it; the best cordial hath been deadly poison." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
More editions of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Deaths Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne:
Famous for the Creaturesby Andrew MotionISBN 0140111832 (0-14-011183-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Famous for the Creatures'More editions of Famous for the Creatures:
In the Blood : A Memoir of My Childhoodby Andrew MotionISBN 014180713X (0-14-180713-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Blood : A Memoir of My Childhood'More editions of In the Blood : A Memoir of My Childhood:
-
Keatsby Andrew MotionISBN 0226542408 (0-226-54240-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Keats'Book summary:Andrew Motion's dramatic narration of Keats's life is the first in a generation to take a fresh look at this great English Romantic poet. Unlike previous biographers, Motion pays close attention to the social and political worlds Keats inhabited. Making incisive use of the poet's inimitable letters, Motion presents a masterful account.[via]
"Motion has given us a new Keats, one who is skinned alive, a genius who wrote in a single month all the poems we cherish, a victim who was tormented by the best doctors of the age. . . . This portrait, stripped of its layers of varnish and restored to glowing colours, should last us for another generation."--Edmund White, The Observer Review
"Keats's letters fairly leap off the page. . . . [Motion] listens for the 'freely associating inquiry and incomparable verve and dash,' the 'headlong charge,' of Keats's jazzlike improvisations, which give us, like no other writing in English, the actual rush of a man thinking, a mind hurtling forward unpredictably and sweeping us along."--Morris Dickstein, New York Times Book Review
"Scrupulous and eloquent."--Gregory Feeley, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Brilliantly innovative, gripping, intricately researched, Motion's biography does justice to its subject at last."--John Carey, The Sunday Times
"Engaging and convincing. . . . The trajectory of this character--from neglected and resentful child to arrogant and envious London dandy to sociopathic murderer on to an enfeebled, frightened prisoner--is indelibly imagined and drawn."--Edmund White, Financial Times
"Motion crafts a fascinating tale as complex and compelling as if Wainewright himself had written it."--Michael Spinella, Booklist
"Thomas Griffiths Wainewright is a dream subject for either novelist or biographer. . . . Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate, clearly felt that neither straight biography nor pure fiction would do Wainewright's complexities justice, and so he combined the two genres. The result is stunning. The central voice is that of Wainewright himself, reflecting back on his life. After each chapter Mr. Motion has added detailed notes that inform and flesh out the narrative, giving not only his own informed opinion of Wainewright's actions but also those of Wainewright's contemporaries and the scholars and writers who have studied him over the past two centuries."--Lucy Moore, Washington Times
"Did he kill his servant, and possibly others as well? . . . The footnotes seem to say yes, but Wainewright adamantly argues his own case. Motion's prose is flawless, and Wainewright's voice is convincing. But in the long run, it's this ambiguity that makes Wainewright the Poisoner a fascinating and memorable read."--R.V. Schelde, Sacramento News and Review
"Who could as for a better Romantic villain than Thomas Griffiths Wainewright? . . . [The book] succeeds on many levels: as an act of ventriloquism, a work of scholarship, a psychological study, as a set of sharp portraits of famous men and an engrossing read. . . ."--Polly Shulman, Newsday
"Instead of a straightforward biography, Andrew Motion gives us Wainewright's first person, fictionalized "confession."--a document as circumspect, slyly reticent, and oeaginously smooth as the man himself. Splendid."--John Banville, Literary Review
"A genuine tour de force, and on a non-fictional level, a telling portrait of a strange, intriguing and repellant man."--Brian Fallon, Irish Times
"A marvelous literary hybrid that totters with one foot in the world of nonfiction, the other in the land of make-believe. One is alternatively swept up in Motion's dizzy imaginative pastiche, or sent crashing into a dusty stack of scholarly cogitations. . . ."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"As true a portrait of a liar as its subject could wish. Rich and strange. . . ."--Glasgow Herald 
The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kitby Andrew MotionISBN 0374182833 (0-374-18283-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit'More editions of The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit:
-
Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetryby Blake Morrison, Andrew MotionISBN 0140422838 (0-14-042283-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry'More editions of Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry:
Penguin Modern Poetsby Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion , Hugo WilliamsISBN 0140587918 (0-14-058791-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Penguin Modern Poets'More editions of Penguin Modern Poets:
Philip Larkinby Andrew MotionISBN 041502529X (0-415-02529-X)
Softcover, Routledge
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Philip Larkin'More editions of Philip Larkin:
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Lifeby Andrew MotionISBN 0374524076 (0-374-52407-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life'More editions of Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life:
Poetry by Heartby Andrew MotionISBN 0439296579 (0-439-29657-9)
Hardcover, Scholastic
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetry by Heart'More editions of Poetry by Heart:
Selected Poemsby William Barnes, Andrew MotionISBN 0140439595 (0-14-043959-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'More editions of Selected Poems:
-
Thomas Hardyby Andrew MotionISBN 0460874586 (0-460-87458-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas Hardy'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
More editions of Thomas Hardy:
-
Wainewright the Poisonerby Andrew MotionISBN 0226542440 (0-226-54244-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Wainewright the Poisoner'Book summary:Andrew Motion brings all his lyricism and inventiveness to bear in this fictional autobiography of the great swindler, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. A painter, writer, and friend of Blake, Byron, and Keats, Wainewright was almost certainly a murderer. When he died in a penal colony in Tasmania, he left behind fragments of documents and a beguiling legend which Motion uses to create an imagined confession laced with facts, telling the story as no straightforward history could.[via]
"Thomas Griffiths Wainewright is a dream subject for either novelist or biographer. . . . Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate, clearly felt that neither straight biography nor pure fiction would do Wainewright's complexities justice, and so he combined the two genres. The result is stunning. The central voice is that of Wainewright himself, reflecting back on his life. After each chapter Mr. Motion has added detailed notes that inform and flesh out the narrative, giving not only his own informed opinion of Wainewright's actions but also those of Wainewright's contemporaries and the scholars and writers who have studied him over the past two centuries."Lucy Moore, Washington Times
"Brilliantly innovative, gripping, intricately researched, Motion's biography does justice to its subject at last."John Carey, The Sunday Times
"Engaging and convincing. . . . The trajectory of this character-from neglected and resentful child to arrogant and envious London dandy to sociopathic murderer on to an enfeebled, frightened prisoner-is indelibly imagined and drawn."Edmund White, Financial Times
"[A] fascinating look at an evil artist, a charmer still having his way with us. We can hear him being economical with the truth, telling us and himself just what he wants to hear."Michael Olmert, New Jersey Star Ledger
"Motion crafts a fascinating tale as complex and compelling as if Wainewright himself had written it."Michael Spinella, Booklist
"Did he kill his servant, and possibly others as well? . . . The footnotes seem to say yes, but Wainewright adamantly argues his own case. Motion's prose is flawless, and Wainewright's voice is convincing. But in the long run, it's this ambiguity that makes Wainewright the Poisoner a fascinating and memorable read."R.V. Schelde, Sacramento News and Review
"Who could as for a better Romantic villain than Thomas Griffiths Wainewright? . . . [The book] succeeds on many levels: as an act of ventriloquism, a work of scholarship, a psychological study, as a set of sharp portraits of famous men and an engrossing read. . . ."Polly Shulman, Newsday
"Instead of a straightforward biography, Andrew Motion gives us Wainewright's first person, fictionalized "confession."a document as circumspect, slyly reticent, and oeaginously smooth as the man himself. Splendid."John Banville, Literary Review
"A genuine tour de force, and on a non-fictional level, a telling portrait of a strange, intriguing and repellant man."Brian Fallon, Irish Times
"A marvelous literary hybrid that totters with one foot in the world of nonfiction, the other in the land of make-believe. One is alternatively swept up in Motion's dizzy imaginative pastiche, or sent crashing into a dusty stack of scholarly cogitations. . . ."Philadelphia Inquirer
"As true a portrait of a liar as its subject could wish. Rich and strange. . . ."Glasgow HeraldMore editions of Wainewright the Poisoner:
Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetryby Mark Willhardt, Alan Michael Parker, Andrew MotionISBN 0415163552 (0-415-16355-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry'More editions of Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry:
Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetryby Mark Willhardt, Alan Michael Parker, Andrew MotionISBN 0415163560 (0-415-16356-0)
Softcover, Routledge
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry'More editions of Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}