Subject: Poets, English Biography

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The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (17,632 copies)
Blake by Peter Ackroyd (879 copies)
The Life and Times of Chaucer by John Gardner (580 copies)
Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes (456 copies)
Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery by Terry Jones (452 copies)
Her Husband: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook (419 copies)
Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt (416 copies)
Shelley : the pursuit by Richard Holmes (351 copies)
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes (319 copies)
World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender by Stephen Spender (303 copies)
Chaucer by Peter Ackroyd (301 copies)
Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy (294 copies)
John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography by John Stubbs (280 copies)
William Blake by Kathleen Raine (274 copies)
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion (269 copies)
Lives of the English poets by Samuel Johnson (265 copies)
Ariel by André Maurois (255 copies)
Lord Rochester's Monkey by Graham Greene (254 copies)
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard (251 copies)
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler (236 copies)
Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden (231 copies)
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-82 by Philip Larkin (224 copies)
Bosie: The Man, The Poet, The Lover of Oscar Wilde by Douglas Murray (211 copies)
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein (205 copies)
John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate (185 copies)
Byron: Poems by Lord G. Gordon Byron (168 copies)
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman (166 copies)
W. H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (153 copies)
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Edward John Trelawny (151 copies)
John Clare by Jonathan Bate (146 copies)
Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines (131 copies)
Geoffrey Chaucer of England by Marchette Gaylord Chute (128 copies)
W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne (128 copies)
Wordsworth: A Life by Juliet Barker (127 copies)
Auden in Love by Dorothy J. Farnan (121 copies)
The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake by G. E. Bentley, Jr. (120 copies)
Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th Century England by Louis Crompton (115 copies)
Betjeman by A. N. Wilson (109 copies)
Siegfried Sassoon: A Life by Max Egremont (109 copies)
Siegfried's Journey, 1916-1920 by Siegfried Sassoon (103 copies)
Criticism: The Major Texts by Walter Jackson Bate (103 copies)
China Diary by Stephen Spender (99 copies)
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry… by Jessie Childs (99 copies)
Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack (95 copies)
Chaucer by G. K. Chesterton (91 copies)
Chaucer: 1340-1400: The Life and Times of the First English… by Richard West (90 copies)
Byron: A Portrait by Leslie A. Marchand (86 copies)
In the Blood by Andrew Motion (72 copies)
Byron by Elizabeth Longford (71 copies)
Chaucer and his world by Derek Brewer (70 copies)
Anthem for Doomed Youth: Twelve Soldier Poets of the First… by Jon Stallworthy (69 copies)
Stephen Spender: A Literary Life by John Sutherland (64 copies)
W.H. Auden : A Tribute by Stephen Spender (64 copies)
John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought by Gordon Campbell (63 copies)
The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy by Kenneth R. Johnston (63 copies)
The Kindness of Sisters: Annabella Milbanke and the… by David Crane (62 copies)
Byron: The Years of Fame by Peter Quennell (57 copies)
NPG Insights: Romantic Poets & Their CircleThe Romantic… by Richard Holmes (54 copies)
Darkling I Listen: The Last Days and Death of John Keats by John Evangelist Walsh (53 copies)
Lives of the English Poets. Volume II [of 2] by Samuel Johnson (51 copies)
The Last Attachment by Iris Origo (51 copies)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems. Selected by James Fenton by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (51 copies)
Lives of the English Poets. Volume I [of 2] by Samuel Johnson (50 copies)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Alicia Craig Faxon (49 copies)
Eden Renewed: The Public and Private Life of John Milton by Peter Levi (48 copies)
The Poet Auden: A Personal Memoir by A. L. Rowse (47 copies)
Shelley and His World by Claire Tomalin (46 copies)
Stevie: a biography of Stevie Smith by Jack Barbera (45 copies)
Byron: The Last Journey by Harold Nicolson (44 copies)
The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and… by Ashley Hay (42 copies)
Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell (41 copies)
Shelf Life by Thom Gunn (41 copies)
A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by James William Johnson (40 copies)
Edward Lear and His World by John Lehmann (36 copies)
John Keats by Amy Lowell (35 copies)
Byron: A Biography by Leslie A. Marchand (33 copies)
Swinburne: The Poet in his World by Donald Serrell Thomas (32 copies)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Bondage of Opium by Molly Lefebure (32 copies)
Robert Browning by Donald Thomas (32 copies)
Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism by David Leeming (32 copies)
First World War Poets (Character Sketches) by Alan Judd (31 copies)
On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece by Stephen Minta (31 copies)
Journey to the Trenches: The Life of Isaac Rosenberg… by Joseph Cohen (26 copies)
Famous Poets for Young People by Laura Benét (24 copies)
Edith Sitwell: A Biography by Geoffrey Elborn (23 copies)
The Contrary Experience by Herbert Read (23 copies)
Auden, an American friendship by Charles H. Miller (22 copies)
John Keats by Douglas Bush (21 copies)
Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl… by Alan H. Nelson (21 copies)
The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann (20 copies)
Christina Rossetti, a divided life by Georgina Battiscombe (19 copies)
Gerard Manley Hopkins by Paddy Kitchen (19 copies)
Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter by Doris Langley Moore (17 copies)
Lord Byron's Wife by Malcolm Elwin (15 copies)
Chaucer by Adolphus William Ward (13 copies)
God's Irregular: Arthur Shearly Cripps by Douglas V. Steere (13 copies)
Selections from the Lives of the English Poets & Preface to… by Samuel Johnson (11 copies)
Requiem for War: The Life of Wilfred Owen, 1893-1918 by Arthur Orrmont (10 copies)
John Masefield: A Life by Constance Babington Smith (10 copies)
Byron and the Shelleys by Jane Blumberg (9 copies)
The uninhibited Byron; an account of his sexual confusion by Bernard D. N. Grebanier (9 copies)
Grace to a witty sinner: a life of Donne by Edward Le Comte (9 copies)
Edward Carpenter 1844-1929: Prophet of Human Fellowship by Chushichi Tsuzuki (9 copies)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Origins of a New Poetry by Dorothy Mermin (8 copies)
Alfred Edward Housman: Recollections by Katherine Elizabeth Symons (8 copies)
The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of… by Kevin Pask (7 copies)
Rebels and Conservatives: Dorothy and William Wordsworth… by Amanda M. Ellis (7 copies)
Edmund Blunden : a biography by Barry Webb (7 copies)
The life of John Milton : containing, besides the history… by John Toland (6 copies)
John Keats by Edmund Blunden (5 copies)
The journals of Claire Clairmont by Claire Clairmont (5 copies)
Gerard Manley Hopkins by Francis Noel Lees (4 copies)
Romantic Rebels: Essays on Shelley and His Circle… by Kenneth Neill Cameron (4 copies)
Problems in the life and writings of A. E. Housman by P. G. Naiditch (3 copies)
Johnson's Lives of the British Poets-Vol. III by Samuel Johnson (3 copies)
W.J. Turner, Poet and Music Critic by Wayne McKenna (3 copies)
A Life of Thomas Chatterton by Edward H. Meyerstein (3 copies)
Lives of Famous Poets by William Michael Rossetti (2 copies)
Minnow among Tritons : Mrs S.T. Coleridge's letters to… by Sara Fricker Coleridge (2 copies)
Remembering the earlier Auden by Edward Upward (2 copies)
A Doctor's Life of John Keats by Walter Augustine Wells (2 copies)
Allegra; the story of Byron and Miss Clairmont by Armistead C. Gordon (1 copies)
Francis Thompson by Agnès de La Gorce (1 copies)
Shelli by N. I︠A︡ Dʹi︠a︡konova (1 copies)
Famous British poets by Sybil Norton (1 copies)