Literary Seductions - Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers (Paperback)

Lady Caroline Lamb's seduction by Lord Byron's "Childe Harold" cost her both marriage and mental health Laura Riding, claiming she was poetry incarnate, leapt from a fourth-storey building Robert Graves, believing she was right, followed. Why do some writers compel their readers to sacrifice all on the strength of a few words? In attempting to answer this question, "Literary Seductions" examines tales of literary love affairs which went one step further - of readers who give up everything for writers and their work.