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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Keats
Author: Lucasta MillerPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525655832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex cynic whose life and poetry were lived and created on the edge. In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems—"Endymion"; "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer"; "Ode to a Nightingale"; "To Autumn"; "Bright Star" among them—and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation. She writes of aspects of Keats's life that have been overlooked, and explores his imagination in the context of his world and experience, paying tribute to the unique quality of his mind. Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, living dangerously, disdaining respectability and cultural norms, and embracing subversive politics. Keats was a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and fractured family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, who delighted in the sensation of the moment. We see how Keats was regarded by his contemporaries (his writing was seen as smutty) and how the young poet’s large and boisterous life—a man of the metropolis, who took drugs, was sexually reckless and afflicted with syphilis—went straight up against the Victorian moral grain; and Miller makes clear why his writing—considered marginal and avant-garde in his own day—retains its astonishing originality, sensuousness and power two centuries on.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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Disciples of Aesculapius
Author: Benjamin Ward RichardsonPublisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Life and Works of Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882)
Author: Robin KeenThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors
Author: John Leonard ThorntonPublisher:
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Introductory history of the production, distribution and storage of medical literature from the earliest times. Plates are facsimilies from medical literature of the sixteenth-nineteenth centuries.
Catalogue of the Pybus Collection of Medical Books, Letters and Engravings
Author: University of Newcastle upon Tyne. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Katalog / Pybus Collection.
A Bibliography of Medical and Biomedical Biography
Author: Leslie Thomas MortonPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Covers those individuals involved in clinical medicine, surgery, and related biomedical sciences, such as biochemistry, biophysics, physiology, pharmacology, and genetics.