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John Keats : a new life /

By: Roe, Nicholas [author.].
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013Description: xxiv, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780300197273; 9780300197273:; 0300197276.Subject(s): Keats, John, 1795-1821 | Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography | Romanticism -- BiographyDDC classification: 920 KEA
Contents:
Early years, 1795-1814 -- Birthplaces -- School -- Bridge -- Guy's Hospital, 1814-1817 -- Southwark -- Bright and dark -- J.K., and other communications -- An era -- Wild surmises -- Saturnalia -- Lancet -- The year of Endymion, 1817 -- Strange journeys -- Fellowship -- Z -- Immortal dinners -- Roads of the dead, 1818 -- Dark passages -- Walking north -- Sleepless nights -- Conjunctions, 1819 -- ditto, ditto -- Ever indolent -- Hope and chance -- Consumption, 1819-1821 -- Repasts -- A now -- Regions of poetry -- Eternal road -- Terminalia.
Summary: This biography of celebrated romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of his as a delicate, overly-sensitive and tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals a 'flesh and blood' poet, a man who was driven by ambition but was prey to doubt, suspicion and jealousy.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 920 KEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0081868
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early years, 1795-1814 -- Birthplaces -- School -- Bridge -- Guy's Hospital, 1814-1817 -- Southwark -- Bright and dark -- J.K., and other communications -- An era -- Wild surmises -- Saturnalia -- Lancet -- The year of Endymion, 1817 -- Strange journeys -- Fellowship -- Z -- Immortal dinners -- Roads of the dead, 1818 -- Dark passages -- Walking north -- Sleepless nights -- Conjunctions, 1819 -- ditto, ditto -- Ever indolent -- Hope and chance -- Consumption, 1819-1821 -- Repasts -- A now -- Regions of poetry -- Eternal road -- Terminalia.

This biography of celebrated romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of his as a delicate, overly-sensitive and tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals a 'flesh and blood' poet, a man who was driven by ambition but was prey to doubt, suspicion and jealousy.

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