John Keats
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Few poets have burned as brightly — or as briefly — as John Keats, whose life of just twenty-five years produced some of the most enduring verse in the English language. Robert Gittings' landmark biography chronicles the full arc of Keats's remarkable journey, from his humble origins as the son of a livery stable keeper in Moorfields to his tragic death from tuberculosis in Rome in 1821, reconstructing with meticulous detail the social world, literary friendships, and passionate romances that shaped his genius. Drawing on an extraordinary depth of archival research, Gittings presents a portrait of Keats that is both scrupulously honest and deeply human, correcting the romanticised myths that had long obscured the poet's true character and circumstances. Widely regarded as the definitive life of Keats upon its publication, this biography stands as a masterwork of literary scholarship, illuminating the tension between Keats's fierce ambition and his crippling self-doubt, his sensual philosophy of negative capability, and the incandescent creativity of his final, luminous years. Gittings writes with a scholar's precision and a storyteller's grace, making the world of Romantic-era London vivid and immediate. For anyone captivated by the Romantic movement or the mysteries of poetic genius, this biography poses a question that lingers long after the final page: how did one so young leave so permanent a mark upon literature?
Author: Robert Gittings
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few poets have burned as brightly — or as briefly — as John Keats, whose life of just twenty-five years produced some of the most enduring verse in the English language. Robert Gittings' landmark biography chronicles the full arc of Keats's remarkable journey, from his humble origins as the son of a livery stable keeper in Moorfields to his tragic death from tuberculosis in Rome in 1821, reconstructing with meticulous detail the social world, literary friendships, and passionate romances that shaped his genius. Drawing on an extraordinary depth of archival research, Gittings presents a portrait of Keats that is both scrupulously honest and deeply human, correcting the romanticised myths that had long obscured the poet's true character and circumstances. Widely regarded as the definitive life of Keats upon its publication, this biography stands as a masterwork of literary scholarship, illuminating the tension between Keats's fierce ambition and his crippling self-doubt, his sensual philosophy of negative capability, and the incandescent creativity of his final, luminous years. Gittings writes with a scholar's precision and a storyteller's grace, making the world of Romantic-era London vivid and immediate. For anyone captivated by the Romantic movement or the mysteries of poetic genius, this biography poses a question that lingers long after the final page: how did one so young leave so permanent a mark upon literature?