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Biographising Poets: An Apology for Impertinence? 

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Robert Fraser

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United Kingdom

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Robert Fraser

Date

24 November 15

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Robert Fraser

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Life-Writing Lunch: Robert Fraser, ‘Biographising Poets: An Apology for Impertinence?’

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Many poets attract biographies. Arguably, the exercise savors of superfluity or irrelevance, or of both. Where the work interprets the life, what more or else can a biographer add? An acknowledged malefactor explains his sins.

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