Patrick Grant

As the first literary critical study of Vincent van Gogh’s letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh presents the painter’s letters as purposeful imaginative creations that chart van Gogh’s evolving conception of himself as an artist.

Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh’s letters and a distillation of the key themes that reoccur throughout his collected letters.

An inspiring book that argues for Van Gogh’s letters to be placed alongside the literary work of Blake and Eliot.

A mature scholar and established literary critic, Grant has emerged as a cultural critic of religious and ethnic conflict.