From Dylan Thomas's eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath's
desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen;
from Chatterton's Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats' death warrant in
a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a
backward shadow on their work. The post-Romantic lore of the
dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our
culture. Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in
control, but poets should be melancholic, doomed and
self-destructive. Is this just an illusion , or is there some
essential truth behind it? What is the price of poetry? In this
book, two contemporary poets embark on a series of journeys to the
death places of poets of the past, in part as pilgrims, but also as
investigators, interrogating the myth.
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