A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex cynic whose life and poetry were lived and created on the edge.
In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems -- "Endymion"; "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"; "Ode to a Nightingale"; "To Autumn"; "Bright Star" among them -- and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation.
Adam Gopnik is the author of A Thousand Small Sanities and a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems -- "Endymion"; "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"; "Ode to a Nightingale"; "To Autumn"; "Bright Star" among them -- and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation.
Adam Gopnik is the author of A Thousand Small Sanities and a staff writer at The New Yorker.
A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex cynic whose life and poetry were lived and created on the edge.
In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems -- "Endymion"; "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"; "Ode to a Nightingale"; "To Autumn"; "Bright Star" among them -- and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation.
Adam Gopnik is the author of A Thousand Small Sanities and a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems -- "Endymion"; "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"; "Ode to a Nightingale"; "To Autumn"; "Bright Star" among them -- and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation.
Adam Gopnik is the author of A Thousand Small Sanities and a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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