Posthumous Keats: A Personal BiographyAn acclaimed American poet reflects on the life and legacy of John Keats. Posthumous Keats is the result of Stanley Plumly's twenty years of reflection on the enduring afterlife of one of England's greatest Romanticists. John Keats's famous epitaph—"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water"—helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius cut off before his time. Keats, dead of tuberculosis at twenty-five, saw his mortality as fatal to his poetry, and therein, Plumly argues, lies his tragedy: Keats thought he had failed in his mission "to be among the English poets."In this close narrative study, Plumly meditates on the chances for poetic immortality—an idea that finds its purest expression in Keats, whose poetic influence remains immense. Incisive in its observations and beautifully written, Posthumous Keats is an ode to an unsuspecting young poet—a man who, against the odds of his culture and critics, managed to achieve the unthinkable: the elevation of the lyric poem to sublime and tragic status. |
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... 2000 The Marriage in the Trees Boy on the Step Summer Celestial Out-of-the-Body Travel Giraffe How the Plains Indians Got Horses In the Outer Dark Nonfiction Argument & Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry ... w. w. norton & company.
... 2000 The Marriage in the Trees Boy on the Step Summer Celestial Out-of-the-Body Travel Giraffe How the Plains Indians Got Horses In the Outer Dark Nonfiction Argument & Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry ... w. w. norton & company.
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... summer heat building in his upstairs bedroom, he had to get out. One possibility—no, necessity—was to take the day coach out to Walthamstow to see his sister, who had been begging him for weeks to visit. Fanny Keats was the youngest of ...
... summer heat building in his upstairs bedroom, he had to get out. One possibility—no, necessity—was to take the day coach out to Walthamstow to see his sister, who had been begging him for weeks to visit. Fanny Keats was the youngest of ...
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... summer, in London, Severn had noted that he “seemed well neither in mind nor body.” And as early as the summer before the encounter with the Gisbornes, the summer “o'er-brimmed,” the summer of 1819, between the great spring odes and the ...
... summer, in London, Severn had noted that he “seemed well neither in mind nor body.” And as early as the summer before the encounter with the Gisbornes, the summer “o'er-brimmed,” the summer of 1819, between the great spring odes and the ...
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Contents
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21 | |
Cold Pastoral | 77 |
This Mortal Body | 109 |
A Dreaming Thing | 161 |
Physician Nature | 215 |
Season of Mists | 273 |
Material Sublime | 317 |
selected bibliography | 371 |
list of illustrations | 381 |
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