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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... 21 Cold Pastoral 57 This Mortal Body 105 A Dreaming Thing 157 Physician Nature 215 Season of Mists 269 Material Sublime 317 P REFACE ... books that matter the most to their. selected bibliography 371 list of illustrations 381 index 383.
... 21 Cold Pastoral 57 This Mortal Body 105 A Dreaming Thing 157 Physician Nature 215 Season of Mists 269 Material Sublime 317 P REFACE ... books that matter the most to their. selected bibliography 371 list of illustrations 381 index 383.
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... Mrs. Gisborne's favorite subject, which the lyrical Hunt also enjoyed: singing. Mrs. Gisborne, first thing the next morning, wrote in her journal that “Yesterday evening we drank tea at Mr. Hunt's... Mr. Keats was 24 • POSTHUMOUS KEATS.
... Mrs. Gisborne's favorite subject, which the lyrical Hunt also enjoyed: singing. Mrs. Gisborne, first thing the next morning, wrote in her journal that “Yesterday evening we drank tea at Mr. Hunt's... Mr. Keats was 24 • POSTHUMOUS KEATS.
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... thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet. So back to the shop, Mr. John, back to 'plasters, pills and ointment boxes.'” And indeed, Keats's first publisher, Olliers, dropped him, and his second, ON HE FLARED • 29.
... thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet. So back to the shop, Mr. John, back to 'plasters, pills and ointment boxes.'” And indeed, Keats's first publisher, Olliers, dropped him, and his second, ON HE FLARED • 29.
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Stanley Plumly. by a good many things, including friends' reactions to his health, reviewers' responses to his poems, and Keats's own late doubts and anger about whether he really would be among the English poets. Severn's frankly well ...
Stanley Plumly. by a good many things, including friends' reactions to his health, reviewers' responses to his poems, and Keats's own late doubts and anger about whether he really would be among the English poets. Severn's frankly well ...
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... thing. Coleridge, remembering Chatterton, writes that we, at sober eye, would round thee throng, Would hang, enraptur'd on thy stately song, And greet with smiles the young-eyed Poesy All deftly mask'd as hoar Antiquity. Even Keats ...
... thing. Coleridge, remembering Chatterton, writes that we, at sober eye, would round thee throng, Would hang, enraptur'd on thy stately song, And greet with smiles the young-eyed Poesy All deftly mask'd as hoar Antiquity. Even Keats ...
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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