John KeatsHarvard University Press, 1 lip 2009 - 780 The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is deeply human and moral, in the most capacious sense of the words. In this authoritative biography--the first full-length life of Keats in almost forty years--the man and the poet are portrayed with rare insight and sympathy. In spite of a scarcity of factual data for his early years, the materials for Keats's life are nevertheless unusually full. Since most of his early poetry has survived, his artistic development can be observed more closely than is possible with most writers; and there are times during the period of his greatest creativity when his personal as well as his artistic life can be followed week by week. The development of Keats's poetic craftsmanship proceeds simultaneously with the steady growth of qualities of mind and character. Mr. Bate has been concerned to show the organic relationship between the poet's art and his larger, more broadly humane development. Keats's great personal appeal--his spontaneity, vigor, playfulness, and affection--are movingly recreated; at the same time, his valiant attempt to solve the problem faced by all modern poets when they attempt to achieve originality and amplitude in the presence of their great artistic heritage is perceptively presented. In discussing this matter, Mr. Bate says, The pressure of this anxiety and the variety of reactions to it constitute one of the great unexplored factors in the history of the arts since 1750. And in no major poet, near the beginning of the modern era, is this problem met more directly than it is in Keats. The way in which Keats was somehow able, after the age of twenty-two, to confront this dilemma, and to transcend it, has fascinated every major poet who has used the English language since Keats's death and also every major critic since the Victorian era. Mr. Bate has availed himself of all new biographical materials, published and unpublished, and has used them selectively and without ostentation, concentrating on the things that were meaningful to Keats. Similarly, his discussions of the poetry are not buried beneath the controversies of previous critics. He approaches the poems freshly and directly, showing their relation to Keats's experience and emotions, to premises and values already explored in the biographical narrative. The result is a book of many dimensions, not a restricted critical or biographical study but a fully integrated whole. |
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... took place on February 15 , 1774. The baptismal dates of their three children were : Frances , January 29 , 1775 ; Midgley John , November 21 , 1777 ; and Thomas , January 4 , 1782. ( See Phyllis Mann , KSMB , No. 11 [ 1960 ] , 33 ...
... took place on February 15 , 1774. The baptismal dates of their three children were : Frances , January 29 , 1775 ; Midgley John , November 21 , 1777 ; and Thomas , January 4 , 1782. ( See Phyllis Mann , KSMB , No. 11 [ 1960 ] , 33 ...
Strona 5
... took place at St. George's in Hanover Square . If there was any thought of sending the Keats boys to Harrow , it was by no means impossible before the death first of Thomas Keats and then of John Jennings , Frances ' father . Jennings ...
... took place at St. George's in Hanover Square . If there was any thought of sending the Keats boys to Harrow , it was by no means impossible before the death first of Thomas Keats and then of John Jennings , Frances ' father . Jennings ...
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... took it down ( " not a tall " ) , Taylor later deleted the puzzling phrase . In any case , Abbey , who had seen her more often ( and observ- antly ) , could be expected to have a better idea of her height than Clarke , unless , so many ...
... took it down ( " not a tall " ) , Taylor later deleted the puzzling phrase . In any case , Abbey , who had seen her more often ( and observ- antly ) , could be expected to have a better idea of her height than Clarke , unless , so many ...
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... took him to a house in the neighbourhood , where he died about 8 o'clock . Other periodicals confirm the details . Abbey's account to Taylor , twenty - three years later , differs in the way one might expect.10 The chaos into which the ...
... took him to a house in the neighbourhood , where he died about 8 o'clock . Other periodicals confirm the details . Abbey's account to Taylor , twenty - three years later , differs in the way one might expect.10 The chaos into which the ...
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... took place on June 27 , 1804 . Mrs. Jennings immediately took responsibility for the children , whose home was henceforth with their grandmother . " We never lived with them " ( her mother and Rawlings ) , said Fanny Keats , " but went ...
... took place on June 27 , 1804 . Mrs. Jennings immediately took responsibility for the children , whose home was henceforth with their grandmother . " We never lived with them " ( her mother and Rawlings ) , said Fanny Keats , " but went ...
Spis treści
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An Adventure in Hope Summer 1816 | 67 |
The Commitment to Poetry Chapmans Homer Hunt and Haydon Autumn 1816 | 84 |
Completing the First Volume November and December 1816 | 107 |
The Laurel Crown and the Vision of Greatness December 1816 to March 1817 | 131 |
A Trial of Invention Endymion | 149 |
Hyperion and a New Level of Writing | 388 |
Fanny Brawne The Eve of St Agnes Winter 181819 | 418 |
A Period of Uncertainty February to April 1819 | 452 |
The Odes of April and May 1819 | 486 |
The Final Beginning Lamia May to July 1819 | 525 |
The Close of the Fertile Year To Autumn and The Fall of Hyperion July to September 1819 | 562 |
Illness Autumn and Winter | 606 |
Adrift January to August 1820 | 628 |
An Act of Will June to December 1817 | 193 |
Negative Capability | 233 |
Another Beginning December and January 1817i8 | 264 |
Devonshire and Isabella February to April 1818 | 294 |
The Burden of the Mystery The Emergence of a Modern Poet Spring 1818 | 316 |
The Departure of George Keats and the Scottish Tour Summer 1818 | 339 |
Reviews the Writing of Hyperion the Death of Tom Keats Autumn 1818 | 363 |
The Voyage to Italy August to November 1820 | 654 |
November 1820 to February 1821 | 671 |
I Family Origins | 701 |
II The Length of Keatss Apprenticeship | 703 |
The Keats Childrens Inheritance | 705 |
Inde2 | 713 |
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