Andrew Motion is the author of three biographies and a number of books of poetry.

Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения. Andrew Motion is the author of three biographies and a number of books of poetry. In 1999 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain, and he is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Motion serves as head of the Literature Panel of the Arts Council and frequently broadcasts on the BBC.

Andrew Motion's Wainewright the Poisoner (Faber, £20) was, all the critics agreed, a brilliant idea for a book - a biography of a r who represented the dark, selfish, anarchic side of the Romantic movement. Where they disagreed was in deciding whether the book actually worked (whatever that means). The words "honourable failure" played on many lips, but in the overcrowded world of literary biography that may be preferable to tedious success. John Carey, in the Sunday Times, was Motion's chief supporter.

Wainewright the Poisoner book. A dazzling and boldly original biography by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and the celebrated biographer of Larkin and Keats

Wainewright the Poisoner book. A dazzling and boldly original biography by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and the celebrated biographer of Larkin and Keats. Thomas Griffiths Wainewright was an ingenious and unscrupulous criminal. In 1828 he inherited the handsome family home, while successive legacies allowed him to maintain a flamboyant lifestyle. Meanwhile, within the space of a few years, three of his A dazzling and boldly original biography by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and the celebrated biographer of Larkin and Keats.

A dazzling and boldly original biography by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and the celebrated biographer of Larkin and Keats. In 1828 he inherited the handsome. Meanwhile, within the space of a few years, three of his relatives died in suspicious circumstances. Eventually tried and arrested, Wainewright was transported for life to Tasmania. Yet he had lived at the centre of the Romantic world

A dazzling and boldly original biography by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and the celebrated biographer of Larkin . Combining the form of a 'confession' with notes, asides and illuminations, Wainewright the Poisoner strips away the layers of legend and restores Wainewright to his own voice, capturing his dandified style, his charm as well as his callousness, his wit as well as his wantonness - and his deadly unreliability.

Wainewright the poisoner. by. Motion, Andrew, 1952-. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books.

The book's value, all experimentation aside, lies in its enlivening of the art and publishing worlds and the horrors of the legal and prison systems, subjects that . London: Faber and Faber, 2000.

The book's value, all experimentation aside, lies in its enlivening of the art and publishing worlds and the horrors of the legal and prison systems, subjects that remain very much on the margins of Romanticism proper. Appreciating Wainewright not just as a proto- or post-Romantic, but as an early Tasmanian painter, and a fine one at that, goes a long way to bringing to light areas of study that we might otherwise avoid.

Andrew Motion brings all his lyricism and inventiveness to bear in this fictional autobiography of the great swindler, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

Andrew Motion brings all his lyricism and inventiveness to bear in this fictional autobiography of the great swindler, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. A painter, writer, and friend of Blake, Byron, and Keats, Wainewright was almost certainly a murderer. When he died in a penal colony in Tasmania, he left behind fragments of documents and a beguiling legend which Motion uses to create an imagined confession laced with facts, telling the story as no straightforward history could. Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate, clearly felt that neither straight biography nor pure fiction would do Wainewright's complexities justice, and so he combined the two genres. The result is stunning.

British poet laureate Andrew Motion knows how to write a conventional biography-witness his much-praised books on John Keats and Philip . Wainewright the Poisoner : The Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.

British poet laureate Andrew Motion knows how to write a conventional biography-witness his much-praised books on John Keats and Philip Larkin-but this time ou. .

In this book, which Andrew Motion calls & experimental biography', he recreates Wainewright's life by using a purported confession written by Wainewright in 1847, and drawing on factual information where possible. The result is two stories within the one book. The first, written from Wainewright's perspective, is a memoir in which Wainewright is the victim. Each chapter is followed by a chapter of notes which adds in facts which Wainewright ignores or downplays. Although initially I was distracted by the way in which the notes were presented, I quickly came to appreciate.