John Keats: The Making Of A Poet
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few literary biographies have so masterfully illuminated the inner life of a genius as Aileen Ward's John Keats: The Making of a Poet — a work that stands as one of the finest accounts of the Romantic era's most luminous and tragically short-lived voice. Ward chronicles the full arc of Keats's life, from his humble origins in Moorfields, London, through the blazing creative years that produced Ode to a Nightingale, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Hyperion, to his untimely death in Rome at just twenty-five years of age. With rare psychological acuity, Ward uncovers the complex interplay between Keats's turbulent personal life — his grief, his passionate love for Fanny Brawne, his struggles with poverty and illness — and the soaring ambition that drove him to redefine English poetry. The result is a portrait of extraordinary intimacy, presenting not merely the poet as myth, but the man in all his contradictions and yearning. Ward argues convincingly that Keats's genius was forged, not simply gifted — shaped by voracious reading, fierce intellectual friendships, and an almost defiant wrestle with mortality. Her prose is elegant and deeply researched, drawing on letters, notebooks, and contemporary accounts to reconstruct a world teeming with Romantic idealism and social constraint. Winner of the National Book Award for Arts and Letters in 1963, this biography remains an indispensable work for any admirer of Romantic poetry, leaving the reader with a profound sense of what was achieved — and what might still have been.
Author: Aileen Ward
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few literary biographies have so masterfully illuminated the inner life of a genius as Aileen Ward's John Keats: The Making of a Poet — a work that stands as one of the finest accounts of the Romantic era's most luminous and tragically short-lived voice. Ward chronicles the full arc of Keats's life, from his humble origins in Moorfields, London, through the blazing creative years that produced Ode to a Nightingale, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Hyperion, to his untimely death in Rome at just twenty-five years of age. With rare psychological acuity, Ward uncovers the complex interplay between Keats's turbulent personal life — his grief, his passionate love for Fanny Brawne, his struggles with poverty and illness — and the soaring ambition that drove him to redefine English poetry. The result is a portrait of extraordinary intimacy, presenting not merely the poet as myth, but the man in all his contradictions and yearning. Ward argues convincingly that Keats's genius was forged, not simply gifted — shaped by voracious reading, fierce intellectual friendships, and an almost defiant wrestle with mortality. Her prose is elegant and deeply researched, drawing on letters, notebooks, and contemporary accounts to reconstruct a world teeming with Romantic idealism and social constraint. Winner of the National Book Award for Arts and Letters in 1963, this biography remains an indispensable work for any admirer of Romantic poetry, leaving the reader with a profound sense of what was achieved — and what might still have been.