Author: John Keats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: John Keats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: John Keats
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674039391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It also offers a revealing look at his "posthumous existence," the period of Keats's illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keats's deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr. James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse--omitted from other selections of Keats's letters--offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man. Edited for greater readability, with annotations reduced and punctuation and spelling judiciously modernized, this selection recreates the spontaneity with which these letters were originally written.

Author: John Keats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: John Keats
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5876609862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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Author: Nicholas Roe
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300124651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Offers a biography of the nineteenth century poet, offering insights into the details of his early life in London, the torments that affected him, and the imaginative sources of his works.

Author: Denise Gigante
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674062728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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John and George Keats—Man of Genius and Man of Power—embodied sibling forms of Romanticism. George’s emigration to the U.S. frontier created an abysm of loneliness and alienation in John that would inspire his most plangent and sublime poetry. Gigante’s account places John’s life in a transatlantic context that has eluded his previous biographers.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: William Michael Rossetti
Publisher: London : W. Scott
ISBN:
Category : Biografia
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Lucasta Miller
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525655840
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.