John Keats (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

Gittings, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141390549 ISBN 13: 9780141390543

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

This is the most comprehensive life of Keats that has ever been written, and should prove the standard biography for many years to come. Robert Gittings has researched deeply both into the roots of Keats's life and works, which lie in England, and into his surviving manuscripts and letters which are now in the United States. The drama of the poet's life is vividly conveyed, as it was played out against the backdrop of his family, his friends and the literary giants of his time. This is a work not only of meticulous scholarship, but of much sensitivity and wisdom, from which the reader will gain both new knowledge and great enjoyment. On publication JOHN KEATS won the WH Smith Literary Award.

About this title

Synopsis:

This sensitive and brilliant book, winner of the WH Smith Literary Award, is the most comprehensive life of Keats available. One of the great figures of Romanticism, Keats poured his tragically short and troubled life into creating poetry: in Robert Gittings's words, "With no other poet are the life and the works so closely linked". He offers insights into Keats's family background, his financial difficulties, illnesses and unhappy love affair with Fanny Brawne, interpreting evrey poem in the context of Keats's experience. Meticulously researched using original sources, this is the most complete picture of Keats that has ever appeared.

About the Author:

Robert Gittings (1911-92) was born in Portsmouth and was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and Jesus College, Cambridge where he became a Fellow. A distinguished biographer and poet, Dr Gittings is also the author of YOUNG THOMAS HARDY to be published in Penguin Classic Biography in September 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141390549
• ISBN 13: 9780141390543
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512