Subject: Poets, English › Biography

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• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (13,380 copies)
• Blake by Peter Ackroyd (737 copies)
• The Life and Times of Chaucer by John Gardner (480 copies)
• Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery by Terry Jones (395 copies)
• Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes (389 copies)
• Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook (372 copies)
• Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt (361 copies)
• Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson (304 copies)
• Shelley: The Pursuit (New York Review Books) by Richard Holmes (276 copies)
• Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes (267 copies)
• World Within World by Stephen Spender (265 copies)
• John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography by John Stubbs (236 copies)
• Chaucer by Peter Ackroyd (236 copies)
• Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy (236 copies)
• Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion (226 copies)
• William Blake by Kathleen Raine (219 copies)
• Lord Rochester's Monkey by Graham Greene (219 copies)
• Ariel by André Maurois (212 copies)
• Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard (212 copies)
• Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden (202 copies)
• Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-82 by Philip Larkin (196 copies)
• Bosie: The Man, The Poet, The Lover of Oscar Wilde by Douglas Murray (184 copies)
• Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler (184 copies)
• Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein (176 copies)
• John Keats by W. Jackson Bate (153 copies)
• The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman (144 copies)
• W. H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (132 copies)
• Byron: Poems by Lord G. Gordon Byron (130 copies)
• Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Edward John Trelawny (124 copies)
• John Clare by Jonathan Bate (122 copies)
• Geoffrey Chaucer of England by Marchette Gaylord Chute (113 copies)
• Auden in Love by Dorothy J. Farnan (111 copies)
• W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne (111 copies)
• Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th Century England by Louis Crompton (107 copies)
• Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines (107 copies)
• The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake by G. E. Bentley, Jr. (106 copies)
• Wordsworth: A Life by Juliet Barker (104 copies)
• Siegfried's journey, 1916-1920 by Siegfried Sassoon (88 copies)
• Betjeman by A. N. Wilson (87 copies)
• Siegfried Sassoon: A Life by Max Egremont (85 copies)
• China Diary by Stephen Spender (81 copies)
• Criticism: The Major Texts by W. Jackson Bate (80 copies)
• Chaucer: 1340-1400: The Life and Times of the First English… by Richard West (73 copies)
• Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack (73 copies)
• Byron: A Portrait by Leslie A. Marchand (72 copies)
• Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry… by Jessie Childs (69 copies)
• Chaucer by G. K. Chesterton (62 copies)
• In the Blood by Andrew Motion (61 copies)
• Lives of the English Poets. Volume I [of 2] by Samuel Johnson (59 copies)
• Byron by Elizabeth Longford (59 copies)

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