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Overview
D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath-these five great writers lived lives of passionate intensity, and John Tytell shows how their own love affairs influences their writing. He also describes how they became models for what we perceive artists to be: romantics whose intense and troubled lives carried them beyond the norm.Here 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, Dyland Thomas and Sylvia Plath. Passionate Lives evokes how these writers lived on the cutting edge of passionate intensity, shows how their own love affairs influenced their writing, and brings a unique perspective to the work and lives of some of the best literary artists of the 20th century. Photographs.
Editorials
Library Journal
D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath were literary geniuses of the first order, yet the reader comes away from this well-written account of their personal lives amazed that they ever had the time to put pen to paper. Each chose for a mate the personality most likely to prove emotionally disastrous; each married their ``perfect love,'' only to find that their romanticism destroyed any possibility of a realistic relationship. Their lives consisted of enough material for a hundred novels: alcoholism, adultery, insanity, poverty, spouse beating (it wasn't always the woman who suffered physical abuse), suicide, desertion, and a compelling passion for the beloved urged the writers on to great creativity and even greater agony. Tytell has written a fascinating study that will both educate and titillate the American literature student and the general reader. Recommended.-- Judith F. Bradley, Acad. of the Holy Cross Lib., Kensington, Md.Book Details
Published
June 1, 1992
Publisher
Secaucus, NJ : Carol Pub., 1991.
Pages
328
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781559720779