{"product_id":"9780099581321","title":"Deaths of the Poets","description":"Author: Roberts, Michael Symmons\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780099581321\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Feb 2018\u003cbr\u003ePages: 432 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn entertaining journey into how the deaths of great poets have shaped our culture's distorted sense of poetry \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Dylan Thomas's eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath's desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton's Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats' death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe post-Romantic lore of the dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture. Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in control, but poets should be melancholic, doomed and self-destructive. Is this just an illusion , or is there some essential truth behind it? What is the price of poetry?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, two contemporary poets embark on a series of journeys to the death places of poets of the past, in part as pilgrims, but also as investigators, interrogating the myth.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48293877088414,"sku":"UBD-9780099581321","price":47.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780099581321.jpg?v=1789729069","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780099581321","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}