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John Keats (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)

by Robert Gittings (Author)
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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (26 July 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141390549
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141390543
  • Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.5 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 728,219 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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 bom 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.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book on the greatest man that lived, 21 Jan 2003
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I am without a doubt John keats' greatest fan and so i approached this book with previous knowledge of Keats' life and works. However i must say that this is the best book regarding John Keats that i have ever read. From his poverty and ill stricken background to his famous death in Rome at the age of 25, this book covers all the major events in Keats' life. It is beautifully written and easy to follow. It is full of fantastic information and is a MUST have for any Keats fan.

This book gives us an opportunity to almost personally meet the man who has become one of the greatest poets that ever lived, and in my opinion..
The greatest man that ever breathed!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Short life of genius., 1 April 2009
By Rg Armstrong "Icarus" (Hampshire. England.) - See all my reviews
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When Shelley wrote Adonais in memory of Keats after his early death the legend was born of the fey young poet dying of grief over having his work savaged by the critics. Robert Gittings' deeply researched biography brings the real Keats to life, from his unsettled childhood in a family cursed by the horrors of tuberculosis, a tough little fighter at school, working in the operating theatre as a medical student. carousing with his circle of poets and painters. nursing his dying brother Tom, falling in love - and the forming of his poetic genius through the strength of his mental awareness and 'That which is creative must create itself.'
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