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| Original Title: | Keats |
| ISBN: | 0226542408 (ISBN13: 9780226542409) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | John Keats |
Andrew Motion
Paperback | Pages: 656 pages Rating: 4.18 | 341 Users | 39 Reviews
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| Title | : | Keats |
| Author | : | Andrew Motion |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 656 pages |
| Published | : | April 15th 1999 by University Of Chicago Press (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Biography. Poetry. Nonfiction. History. Medievalism. Romanticism. Classics |
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Andrew Motion's dramatic narration of Keats's life is the first in a generation to take a fresh look at this great English Romantic poet. Unlike previous biographers, Motion pays close attention to the social and political worlds Keats inhabited. Making incisive use of the poet's inimitable letters, Motion presents a masterful account."Motion has given us a new Keats, one who is skinned alive, a genius who wrote in a single month all the poems we cherish, a victim who was tormented by the best doctors of the age. . . . This portrait, stripped of its layers of varnish and restored to glowing colours, should last us for another generation."—Edmund White, The Observer Review
"Keats's letters fairly leap off the page. . . . [Motion] listens for the 'freely associating inquiry and incomparable verve and dash,' the 'headlong charge,' of Keats's jazzlike improvisations, which give us, like no other writing in English, the actual rush of a man thinking, a mind hurtling forward unpredictably and sweeping us along."—Morris Dickstein, New York Times Book Review
"Scrupulous and eloquent."—Gregory Feeley, Philadelphia Inquirer
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Ratings: 4.18 From 341 Users | 39 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books Keats
I never had the privilege of studying John Keats at school, so I came to him via a less expected path: reading the science fiction novel Hyperion by Dan Simmons. In that futuristic tale, the historical Keats has been cloned and augmented as a 'cybrid', and goes on an adventure with a detective named Brawne Lamia. I was intrigued enough to want to know more! I soon stumbled across this biography by Andrew Motion, which has been my key text for years. I came to really love the feisty and engagedWay too much literally criticism. If you just have a casual interest in Keats but would like to understand the man and its time this book is not for you.
Spoiler: Keats achieves his dearest dream of becoming one of the great English poets in the end. About thirty years after his death.This is a detailed and well written biography of the seminal "poet who died too young." One might think that a man who lived only 25 years would have a short bio, but Motion puts Keats in context with his times and politics. Every detail of the poet's short life is examined, and the poetry is critiqued closely. Safe to say that when you have finished thus book, you
A highly detailed, insightful and honest account of the 19th century's most sensitive poet.
Continuing with my Keatsian summer, I became absorbed in this wonderful biography. I found it to be moving, insightful and extremely detailed. Andrew Motion is not a cold, detached biographer, but a fellow poet who reflects with sentiment about the experiences and achievements of Keats.This biography is also a great introduction to the literary life of the times. I have been particularly interested in the relationships between all the different artists and writers who became Keats's friends, and
At school sex and death (view spoiler)[ this is what you learn about when you take English Literature at A-Level, the social impact of this is as far as I know so far unmeasured (hide spoiler)] was provided via the medium of John Donne rather than by means of John Keats. So when I started to read a volume of John Keats' selected verse I wondered why somebody living in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the city was already a metropolis with over a million inhabitants
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