A Lucid Dreamer by Neil Roberts

A Lucid Dreamer by Neil Roberts

The work of the poet Peter Redgrove is one of the great treasures of late twentieth-century literature. His prolific output presents an intriguing variety of personae: magician, scientist, lover, psychologist, joker, and madman. This title shows how and why these personae developed, and displays the full depth and range of this visionary writer.

Roberts is probably Redgrove's greatest admirer and his book does his man proud.. Generous and insightful. -- Blake Morrison * The Guardian *
Mind bogglingly entertaining. -- Suzi Feay * Independent on Sunday *
Redgrove's abundance and stamina as a conjuror of strangeness seem to me to be greatly under-admired, yet that has perhaps come about because of the very opulence of his imagination. * Seamus Heaney *
A Lucid Dreamer is sensible, readable, and sympathetic to its subject, without disguising his faults. -- Graeme Richardson * Times Literary Supplement *
A Lucid Dreamer offers a sympathetic and accurate biography of the man in a book that traverses some pretty strange territory without loosing either its sense of humour or its respect for its subject. -- Sean O’Brien * The Sunday Times *

Neil Roberts was born in Manchester and educated in Latymer Upper School, London, and
Clare College, Cambridge. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, where he has taught for thirty-eight years. He wrote the first critical study of Peter Redgrove, The Lover, the Dreamer and the World, and knew the poet well during the last twenty years of his life. His other books include Ted Hughes: A Literary Life, and works on D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot and George Meredith. He lives in Derbyshire.

Peter Redgrove was born in 1932 and studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge. He was also a novelist, playwright and co-author (with Penelope Shuttle) of The Wise Wound, a revolutionary study of the human fertility cycle. Among his many awards were the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Prix Italia and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He died in 2003.

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ISBN 13	9780224090292
ISBN 10	0224090291
Title	A Lucid Dreamer
Author	Neil Roberts
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2012-01-05
Number of pages	352
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