Posthumous Keats: A Personal BiographyW. W. Norton & Company, 17.05.2008 - 288 Seiten An 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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... autumn countryside feels like spring. The land trip north, in slow motion, will take yet another week. Keats and Severn are tourists, but broke. They won't eat well, they won't ride well, but they will see—at one point, improbably, a ...
... autumn countryside feels like spring. The land trip north, in slow motion, will take yet another week. Keats and Severn are tourists, but broke. They won't eat well, they won't ride well, but they will see—at one point, improbably, a ...
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... autumn before Keats's last 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 ...
... autumn before Keats's last 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 ...
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... Autumn,” “Ode on Melancholy,” and Hyperion: A Fragment. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems becomes, in fact, the book's title. All of these poems were written in a matter of months in his last, truly, living year ...
... Autumn,” “Ode on Melancholy,” and Hyperion: A Fragment. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems becomes, in fact, the book's title. All of these poems were written in a matter of months in his last, truly, living year ...
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Inhalt
15 | |
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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Adonais Amy Lowell appears artist Autumn beautiful becomes beginning Ben Nevis biography blood body brother Brown Brown’s Burns’s Byron Clark Coleridge consumption Dilke dream dying Endymion English epic Eve of St eyes face fact Fall of Hyperion Fanny Brawne feel flowers George George’s Gisborne Guy’s Hampstead hand Haslam Haydon heart hemorrhage Hunt Hunt’s illness imagination immortal Italy John Keats Joseph Severn journey Keats writes Keats’s death Keatsian Lamia later less letter living London look lungs lyric mask memory mind mist months morning mortal mother Naples never night Nightingale nurse Ode to Psyche once painting perhaps Piazza di Spagna poem poet poet’s poetry portrait posthumous Pre-Raphaelite Reynolds Rome seems sense Shelley Shelley’s sonnet Spanish Steps stanza sublime summer Taylor thing thought tion Tom’s walk Wentworth Place Woodhouse words writ in water written young