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John Keats Robert Gittings

John Keats By Robert Gittings

John Keats by Robert Gittings

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This biography of one of England's greatest poets, John Keats, coveys the drama of the poet's life played out against the backdrop of his family, his friends and the literary giants of his time.

John Keats Summary

John Keats by Robert Gittings

This sensitive and brilliant book, winner of the WH Smith Literary Award, is the most comprehensive life of Keats available. One of the great figures of Romanticism, Keats poured his tragically short and troubled life into creating poetry: in Robert Gittings's words, "With no other poet are the life and the works so closely linked". He offers insights into Keats's family background, his financial difficulties, illnesses and unhappy love affair with Fanny Brawne, interpreting evrey poem in the context of Keats's experience. Meticulously researched using original sources, this is the most complete picture of Keats that has ever appeared.

About Robert Gittings

Robert Gittings (1911-92) was bom in Portsmouth and was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and Jesus College, Cambridge where he became a Fellow. A distinguished biographer and poet, Dr Gittings is also the author of Young Thomas Hardy to be published in Penguin Classic Biography in September 2001.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Apprentice years: Mr. Keats's origin; the infant legatee; the most placid period; nature's observatory; the well educated practitioner; the new era; standing apart. Part 2 Years of trial: pleasure's temple; a flowering laurel; the little boat; the cave of quietude; a man of achievement; numberless points; Solomon's directions; through the clouds; a man in the world. Part 3 The living year: the cloudy kings; where's the poet?; rich antiquity; in thrall; sparks of the divinity; gordian shapes; a quiet power. Part 4 The last year: unmeridianed; the death warrant; patient in illness; Mr. Keats leaves Hampstead; late of the city of Rome; epilogue to life; appendices - the Jennings and Sweetinburgh families, Keats's father, Keats and venereal disease, Keats's use of bawdy.

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GOR003426821
9780141390543
0141390549
John Keats by Robert Gittings
Robert Gittings
Penguin Classics S.
Used - Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2001-07-26
512
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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