Lives of the Poet: The First Century of Keats BiographyPennsylvania State University Press, 1985 - 133 sider Focused on Keats, this study of the development of literary biography in the 19th and early 20th centuries demonstrates the influence and importance of biography as a form. In a dramatic narrative, we see Keat's reputation developing from minor to major poet and follow the increase of his influence on the English and American poets of the century after his death. After analyzing the autobiographical content of Keat's writing to establish the primary materials with which future biographers would work, the book proceeds through the first century of biographies of Keats, showing the importance of his biographers to his rise to prominence, and concluding with the outstanding biographical studies of the last twenty years, based on a more thorough understanding of texts and dates. This book will have a strong appeal to scholars interested in the literature and culture of the Victorian period, biography as form, 19th-century intellectual history, and major poets of the English language. An earlier version of this manuscript was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize at Harvard. |
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... suffering horribly , and that several times he longed for the release of suicide . Although modern readers may regret that any such deletions were made in the scanty record of Keats's thought , we can understand how the pres- sures of ...
... suffer- ing for vicious beastlinesss I am the greater part of the week in spirits " ; to Tom ( 26 July 1818 ) , " With respect to Women I think I shall be able to conquer my passions hereafter better than I have yet done . " In all ...
... suffering was considered especially appro- priate , of course , for those who lived by poetic inspiration . Shelley , in a lighthearted attempt to console Keats , wrote ( 27 July 1820 ) , " This con- sumption is a disease particularly ...
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A Continual Allegory | 15 |
Strange Customs | 37 |
Inheriting Unfulfilled Renown | 59 |
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