KeatsAndrew 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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Contents
January 1818 | 177 |
From a letter written to Bailey on 22 November 1817 | 209 |
Isabella lines 4956 Keatss draft | 248 |
Hyperion Book II lines 16790 Keatss fair copy | 310 |
From The Eve of St Agnes Keatss draft 3401 | 340 |
Ode to Psyche Keatss draft 3835 | 383 |
Ode on a Grecian Urn printed in the Annals of the Fine Arts | 390 |
Ode to a Nightingale Keatss draft 3969 | 396 |
From Lamia Part I Keatss fair copy | 432 |
From a letter written to Taylor on 5 September 1819 | 438 |
To Autumn Keatss draft 4589 | 458 |
Bright Star Keatss autograph in Severns copy of Shakespeare | 473 |
Keatss letter to Shelley written on 16 August 1820 5289 | 528 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Keats |
| Author | Andrew Motion |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0226542408, 9780226542409 |
| Length | 636 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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