Subject: Poets, English › Biography

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• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (14,381 copies)
• Blake by Peter Ackroyd (763 copies)
• The Life and Times of Chaucer by John Gardner (502 copies)
• Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery by Terry Jones (411 copies)
• Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes (402 copies)
• Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook (385 copies)
• Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt (374 copies)
• Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson (321 copies)
• Shelley: The Pursuit (New York Review Books) by Richard Holmes (302 copies)
• Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes (277 copies)
• World Within World by Stephen Spender (273 copies)
• Chaucer by Peter Ackroyd (260 copies)
• Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy (250 copies)
• John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography by John Stubbs (244 copies)
• Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion (233 copies)
• Ariel by André Maurois (228 copies)
• William Blake by Kathleen Raine (225 copies)
• Lord Rochester's Monkey by Graham Greene (223 copies)
• Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard (223 copies)
• Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden (210 copies)
• Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-82 by Philip Larkin (203 copies)
• Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler (199 copies)
• Bosie: The Man, The Poet, The Lover of Oscar Wilde by Douglas Murray (191 copies)
• Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein (187 copies)
• John Keats by W. Jackson Bate (161 copies)
• The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman (152 copies)
• W. H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (140 copies)
• Byron: Poems by Lord G. Gordon Byron (137 copies)
• Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Edward John Trelawny (131 copies)
• John Clare by Jonathan Bate (127 copies)
• W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne (115 copies)
• Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines (114 copies)
• Geoffrey Chaucer of England by Marchette Gaylord Chute (113 copies)
• Auden in Love by Dorothy J. Farnan (112 copies)
• Wordsworth: A Life by Juliet Barker (112 copies)
• The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake by G. E. Bentley, Jr. (111 copies)
• Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th Century England by Louis Crompton (110 copies)
• Betjeman by A. N. Wilson (95 copies)
• Siegfried's journey, 1916-1920 by Siegfried Sassoon (88 copies)
• Siegfried Sassoon: A Life by Max Egremont (87 copies)
• China Diary by Stephen Spender (85 copies)
• Criticism: The Major Texts by W. Jackson Bate (85 copies)
• Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack (80 copies)
• Chaucer: 1340-1400: The Life and Times of the First English… by Richard West (77 copies)
• Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry… by Jessie Childs (75 copies)
• Byron: A Portrait by Leslie A. Marchand (74 copies)
• Chaucer by G. K. Chesterton (66 copies)
• In the Blood by Andrew Motion (64 copies)
• Byron by Elizabeth Longford (62 copies)
• Lives of the English Poets. Volume I [of 2] by Samuel Johnson (61 copies)

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