Letters to Four Very Dead and Deeply Flawed Poets

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this sweeping portrait of four literary rebels-W.B. Yeats Ezra Pound ‎Edna St. Vincent Millay and Dylan Thomas-modern poetry's ‎triumphant leaps and tragic falls are laid bare. From Pound's Imagist ‎manifesto and treacherous wartime broadcasts to Yeats' mystical salons ‎and complicated loves their ambitions reshaped verse and provoked ‎scandal. Millay the Jazz Age icon and first female Pulitzer laureate ‎defied convention with fiercely honest sonnets and social crusades while ‎Thomas the Welsh firebrand burned through his life with raw emotion ‎unforgettable lines and a tortured passion for words and booze. Through ‎secret diaries public triumphs and posthumous reckonings this book ‎unravels their intertwined legacies exploring how genius courted ‎controversy and desire fuelled creation. Vividly researched and ‎poignantly told it reveals the intimate struggles behind their public ‎myths-proof that poetry's greatest power often springs from its creators' ‎most flawed and fervent selves-and their enduring influence on ‎generations to come.</span></p>