Passionate Lives

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PASSIONATE LIVES D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath-In Love by John Tytell Passionate Lives is a compelling account of the romantic lives and times of five great writers of this century- D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath. This book evokes how these writers lived on the cutting edge of passionate intensity and shows how their own love affairs influenced their writing. It alsó describes how they became models for what we perceive the artist to be- a romantic whose intense and often troubled life carries him or her beyond the norm. Moreover, because that is often society's vision of what artists should be like, society in turn reinforced this perception within the writers themselves. As the author notes, tjie love affairs and marriages that form a backdrop for Passionate Lives constitute crucial chapters in the history of modern love. With D.H. Lawrence, it is the era of the First World War,... Tovább

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PASSIONATE LIVES D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath-In Love by John Tytell Passionate Lives is a compelling account of the romantic lives and times of five great writers of this century- D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath. This book evokes how these writers lived on the cutting edge of passionate intensity and shows how their own love affairs influenced their writing. It alsó describes how they became models for what we perceive the artist to be- a romantic whose intense and often troubled life carries him or her beyond the norm. Moreover, because that is often society's vision of what artists should be like, society in turn reinforced this perception within the writers themselves. As the author notes, tjie love affairs and marriages that form a backdrop for Passionate Lives constitute crucial chapters in the history of modern love. With D.H. Lawrence, it is the era of the First World War, when feminist and socialist movements began to change the way we think and act. With Fitzgerald and Miller, it is the twenties, when an unprecedented affluence and hedonism reshaped morál views. Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath came of age as artists in the years after the Second World War, when ideas once considered sacred began to lose credibility and morál structures started to collapse. (continued on back flap) Vissza