{"product_id":"stricken-deer","title":"Stricken Deer","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1929, \u003cb\u003eThe Stricken Deer\u003c\/b\u003e was the winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize and also the Hawthornden Prize: it was David Cecil's first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor a time, towards the end of the eighteenth-century, William Cowper was the foremost poet in England. But David Cecil's biography doesn't celebrate a life of success, rather, in Cowper's own words, 'the strange and uncommon incidents of my life.' Cowper suffered from severe bouts of depression. His personal tragedy however enriched English literature: the fear of madness made him turn to writing poetry as a form of mental discipline, and isolation for the great world and from his own kind helped him to become the most enchanting of letter-writers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a sympathetic and vivid biography; it is subtle with a kind of gentle acuteness and vivid without literary ostentation. It is the work of a biographer with a clear head and a clever heart ... the rarest of all merits is the sensitive fairness of the of the biographer's estimate of character and situation throughout.' Desmond MacCarthy, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243610394968,"sku":"9780571251643","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571251643.jpg?v=1777704330","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/stricken-deer","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}