John Keats: The Living Year
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the annals of Romantic poetry, few lives burned as brightly — or as briefly — as that of John Keats, and Robert Gittings' John Keats: The Living Year offers an unparalleled forensic examination of the single most productive year of the poet's tragically short life. Focusing on the extraordinary twelve-month period from September 1818 to September 1819, Gittings meticulously reconstructs the biographical and literary circumstances that gave rise to Keats's greatest masterworks — the sublime odes, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Lamia — illuminating the precise experiences, relationships, and readings that shaped each immortal line. Gittings writes with the precision of a scholar and the passion of a devotee, arguing convincingly that Keats's genius was not born in isolation but was forged through an intense and conscious engagement with the world around him — his love for Fanny Brawne, his voracious reading of Shakespeare and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, and his acute awareness of his own mortality. This landmark work of literary biography transformed Keats scholarship upon its publication and remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how one young man, in the space of a single year, produced some of the most celebrated poetry in the English language. What drove Keats to create so furiously, knowing time was running out?
Author: Robert Gittings
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the annals of Romantic poetry, few lives burned as brightly — or as briefly — as that of John Keats, and Robert Gittings' John Keats: The Living Year offers an unparalleled forensic examination of the single most productive year of the poet's tragically short life. Focusing on the extraordinary twelve-month period from September 1818 to September 1819, Gittings meticulously reconstructs the biographical and literary circumstances that gave rise to Keats's greatest masterworks — the sublime odes, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Lamia — illuminating the precise experiences, relationships, and readings that shaped each immortal line. Gittings writes with the precision of a scholar and the passion of a devotee, arguing convincingly that Keats's genius was not born in isolation but was forged through an intense and conscious engagement with the world around him — his love for Fanny Brawne, his voracious reading of Shakespeare and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, and his acute awareness of his own mortality. This landmark work of literary biography transformed Keats scholarship upon its publication and remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how one young man, in the space of a single year, produced some of the most celebrated poetry in the English language. What drove Keats to create so furiously, knowing time was running out?