Subject: Poets, English › Biography

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• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (15,256 copies)
• Blake by Peter Ackroyd (791 copies)
• The Life and Times of Chaucer by John Gardner (520 copies)
• Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery by Terry Jones (425 copies)
• Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes (419 copies)
• Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook (394 copies)
• Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt (384 copies)
• Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson (329 copies)
• Shelley: The Pursuit (New York Review Books) by Richard Holmes (314 copies)
• Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes (291 copies)
• World Within World by Stephen Spender (279 copies)
• Chaucer by Peter Ackroyd (271 copies)
• Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy (266 copies)
• John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography by John Stubbs (256 copies)
• Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion (243 copies)
• Ariel by André Maurois (237 copies)
• William Blake by Kathleen Raine (236 copies)
• Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard (229 copies)
• Lord Rochester's Monkey by Graham Greene (228 copies)
• Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler (214 copies)
• Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden (214 copies)
• Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-82 by Philip Larkin (207 copies)
• Bosie: The Man, The Poet, The Lover of Oscar Wilde by Douglas Murray (197 copies)
• Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein (194 copies)
• John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate (172 copies)
• The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman (154 copies)
• W. H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (145 copies)
• Byron: Poems by Lord G. Gordon Byron (145 copies)
• Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Edward John Trelawny (137 copies)
• John Clare by Jonathan Bate (134 copies)
• Geoffrey Chaucer of England by Marchette Gaylord Chute (120 copies)
• W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne (119 copies)
• Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines (117 copies)
• Wordsworth: A Life by Juliet Barker (117 copies)
• Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th Century England by Louis Crompton (114 copies)
• Auden in Love by Dorothy J. Farnan (113 copies)
• The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake by G. E. Bentley, Jr. (112 copies)
• Betjeman by A. N. Wilson (97 copies)
• Siegfried Sassoon: A Life by Max Egremont (95 copies)
• Criticism: The Major Texts by Walter Jackson Bate (92 copies)
• Siegfried's journey, 1916-1920 by Siegfried Sassoon (92 copies)
• China Diary by Stephen Spender (87 copies)
• Chaucer: 1340-1400: The Life and Times of the First English… by Richard West (81 copies)
• Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack (81 copies)
• Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry… by Jessie Childs (79 copies)
• Byron: A Portrait by Leslie A. Marchand (78 copies)
• Chaucer by G. K. Chesterton (75 copies)
• In the Blood by Andrew Motion (66 copies)
• Byron by Elizabeth Longford (65 copies)
• Lives of the English Poets. Volume I [of 2] by Samuel Johnson (62 copies)

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