Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph - Softcover

Miller, Lucasta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1529110904 ISBN 13: 9781529110906

Verlag: Vintage, 2023

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'Outstanding... The best short introduction I have come across' Sunday Times

When he died at the age of just twenty-five, few imagined John Keats would one day be considered among the greatest poets of all time.

Taking nine of Keats's best-known poems, Lucasta Miller excavates their backstories and, in doing so, resurrects the real Keats: an outsider from a damaged family whose visceral love of language allowed him to change the face of English literature for ever.

Combining close-up readings with the story of his brief existence, Miller shows us how Keats crafted his groundbreaking poetry and explains why it continues to speak to us across the centuries.

'One never wants Keats's life to end so soon; I didn't want this book to end, either' TLS Books of the Year

'Irresistible... [Miller]digs into the backstories of her subject's most famous poems to uncover aspects of his life and work that challenge well-worn romantic myths' Wall Street Journal

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Lucasta Miller is a biographer and critic, whose articles have appeared in a wide number of publications, especially the Guardian. She is the author of two previous books on nineteenth-century literature, The Brontë Myth and L.E.L.: the Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the 'Female Byron', and is currently an Honorary Research Associate at University College, London and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.

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*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN*The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1529110904
• ISBN 13: 9781529110906
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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