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Sep 19, 2014bookwormjeph rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
It took me a little while to decide if I liked this novel. MY main doubt being that I knew very little about each of the poets life's that are fictionalised in these three stories- all from the perspective of their wives. I persevered and was glad I did. The third section is of a completely fictional poet and ironically I enjoyed this story less than the other two focused on real poets- William Blake and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. A rsahter intriguing set of stories so beautifully written they could almost be classed as poetry themselves.