John Keats
Book description
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…
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1 author picked John Keats as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Keats, beloved of English majors and ordinary readers everywhere, died at 25.
No other writer – not Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, George Eliot, Jane Austen – would be remembered today if he or she had died at that age.
W.J. Bate was a magisterial Harvard scholar. His two sympathetic biographies, of Keats, and of Samuel Johnson, both won Pulitzer prizes and are still readable and important. They breathe life into their subjects and deeply humanize them.
You will weep with sympathy and understanding.
From Willard's list on the lives and works of English and American poets.
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