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TOWARDS A POETICS OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY by Michael Benton Palgrave Macmillan - Sept. 2015 ISBN 9781137549570 Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Biography is seen as a hybrid genre in which historical and fictional elements are imagi..