A Pilgrimage Of Passion: The Life Of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Few lives in the Victorian and Edwardian eras burned with as much contradiction and brilliance as that of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt — poet, passionate lover, anti-imperialist crusader, and breeder of Arabian horses. Elizabeth Longford's authoritative biography chronicles the extraordinary arc of a man who stood defiantly against the tide of British Empire, championing the causes of Egypt, India, and Ireland at a time when such dissent was deeply unfashionable, even scandalous. From his aristocratic origins to his infamous imprisonment for agitating on behalf of Irish tenant farmers, Blunt's life reads as both a personal romance and a sweeping political drama. Longford, one of Britain's most celebrated biographers, brings her trademark rigour and narrative elegance to bear on a subject who demands nothing less. Her portrait of Blunt illuminates the fierce tensions of an age caught between imperial hubris and the stirrings of nationalist liberation, while never losing sight of the deeply human passions — erotic, spiritual, artistic — that drove her subject forward. A Pilgrimage of Passion stands as a landmark work of biographical writing, leaving the reader to wonder whether Blunt was ultimately a prophet ahead of his time, or simply a magnificent, irreducible eccentric.
Author: Elizabeth Longford
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Some yellowing/tanning to pages. Markings: remainder mark. Binding condition: Good.
Few lives in the Victorian and Edwardian eras burned with as much contradiction and brilliance as that of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt — poet, passionate lover, anti-imperialist crusader, and breeder of Arabian horses. Elizabeth Longford's authoritative biography chronicles the extraordinary arc of a man who stood defiantly against the tide of British Empire, championing the causes of Egypt, India, and Ireland at a time when such dissent was deeply unfashionable, even scandalous. From his aristocratic origins to his infamous imprisonment for agitating on behalf of Irish tenant farmers, Blunt's life reads as both a personal romance and a sweeping political drama. Longford, one of Britain's most celebrated biographers, brings her trademark rigour and narrative elegance to bear on a subject who demands nothing less. Her portrait of Blunt illuminates the fierce tensions of an age caught between imperial hubris and the stirrings of nationalist liberation, while never losing sight of the deeply human passions — erotic, spiritual, artistic — that drove her subject forward. A Pilgrimage of Passion stands as a landmark work of biographical writing, leaving the reader to wonder whether Blunt was ultimately a prophet ahead of his time, or simply a magnificent, irreducible eccentric.