There has been no full-scale biography of Rosenberg since 1975. Rosenberg is unique among war poets - e.g. the modernity of his technique and themes, the worm's-eye view of war.
Jean Moorcroft Wilson lectured in English at the University of Munich and is now lecturer at Birkbeck College, London.Previous titles:Biographies of Siegfried Sassoon;Charles Hamilton Sorley
Wilson is excellent on Rosenberg's life and her comments on his poems are always grounded. - DAILY MAIL - Frances Spaldingadmiring and devotedly researched, yet critical of his character... Moorcroft Wilson's account, incorporating new findings is the fullest we are ever likely to get of his life... well worth buying for its splendid reproductions of his drawing and paintings. - SUNDAY TIMES - John Careythis is a measured, thoroughly researched biography, incorporating much new material by and about the poet, which should be definitive. With this labour of love, sensitively and sensibly analysing the poetry, Moorcroft Wilson has now surely said the last word on this gifted by tragically unlucky figure. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHWhat has been needed is a single, definitive biography bringing together the differing strands of fact and interpretation, while building on the new material and analysis of recent years. Jean Moorcroft Wilson has supplied it. - FINANCIAL TIMES - Vivien Noakesmeticulous..... this book is a tremendous achievement of research, ye the story it tells is so very remarkable. - DAILY TELEGRAPHThis author said of her biography of the wealthy Siegfried Sassoon, '' A study of his life is a study of an age''. So is this one. - THE SPECTATOR - P J Kavanagh... particularly good on his early painting ambitions. - THE INDEPENDENTThis is a bet
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