John Keats
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few literary biographies have achieved the monumental depth and eloquence of Walter Jackson Bate's John Keats, a Pulitzer Prize-winning work that stands as the definitive portrait of one of Romanticism's most luminous and tragically short-lived voices. Bate chronicles the brief yet astonishingly fertile life of the poet — from his humble origins in early nineteenth-century London, through his rapid ascent into literary greatness, to his untimely death at twenty-five — capturing with extraordinary precision the inner world of a man who transformed personal anguish into some of the most transcendent verse in the English language. Bate's scholarly authority is matched only by his prose's warmth and humanity, presenting Keats not merely as a canonical figure but as a living, breathing personality shaped by doubt, ambition, love, and an almost painful sensitivity to beauty. The work situates Keats firmly within the turbulent Romantic movement, examining his complex relationships with contemporaries such as Leigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, and Charles Lamb, while illuminating the philosophical depth underpinning odes like To Autumn and Ode on a Grecian Urn. For anyone who has ever been moved by a line of poetry and wondered at the mind behind it, this biography offers an answer — and a revelation.
Author: Walter Jackson Bate
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few literary biographies have achieved the monumental depth and eloquence of Walter Jackson Bate's John Keats, a Pulitzer Prize-winning work that stands as the definitive portrait of one of Romanticism's most luminous and tragically short-lived voices. Bate chronicles the brief yet astonishingly fertile life of the poet — from his humble origins in early nineteenth-century London, through his rapid ascent into literary greatness, to his untimely death at twenty-five — capturing with extraordinary precision the inner world of a man who transformed personal anguish into some of the most transcendent verse in the English language. Bate's scholarly authority is matched only by his prose's warmth and humanity, presenting Keats not merely as a canonical figure but as a living, breathing personality shaped by doubt, ambition, love, and an almost painful sensitivity to beauty. The work situates Keats firmly within the turbulent Romantic movement, examining his complex relationships with contemporaries such as Leigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, and Charles Lamb, while illuminating the philosophical depth underpinning odes like To Autumn and Ode on a Grecian Urn. For anyone who has ever been moved by a line of poetry and wondered at the mind behind it, this biography offers an answer — and a revelation.