The Keats Brothers

Author : Denise Gigante
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674725959

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The Keats Brothers by Denise Gigante Pdf

John and George KeatsÑMan of Genius and Man of Power, to use JohnÕs wordsÑembodied sibling forms of the phenomenon we call Romanticism. GeorgeÕs 1818 move to the western frontier of the United States, an imaginative leap across four thousand miles onto the tabula rasa of the American dream, created in John an abysm of alienation and loneliness that would inspire the poetÕs most plangent and sublime poetry. Denise GiganteÕs account of this emigration places JohnÕs life and work in a transatlantic context that has eluded his previous biographers, while revealing the emotional turmoil at the heart of some of the most lasting verse in English. In most accounts of JohnÕs life, George plays a small role. He is often depicted as a scoundrel who left his brother destitute and dying to pursue his own fortune in America. But as Gigante shows, George ventured into a land of prairie fires, flat-bottomed riverboats, wildcats, and bears in part to save his brothers, John and Tom, from financial ruin. There was a vital bond between the brothers, evident in JohnÕs letters to his brother and sister-in-law, Georgina, in Louisville, Kentucky, which run to thousands of words and detail his thoughts about the nature of poetry, the human condition, and the soul. Gigante demonstrates that JohnÕs 1819 Odes and Hyperion fragments emerged from his profound grief following GeorgeÕs departure and TomÕs deathÑand that we owe these great works of English Romanticism in part to the deep, lasting fraternal friendship that Gigante reveals in these pages.

Author : Lawrence M. Crutcher
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813136882

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George Keats of Kentucky by Lawrence M. Crutcher Pdf

John Keats’s biographers have rarely been fair to George Keats (1797–1841)—pushing him to the background as the younger brother, painting him as a prodigal son, or labeling him as the “business brother.” Some have even condemned him as a heartless villain who took more than his fair share of an inheritance and abandoned the ailing poet to pursue his own interests. In this authoritative biography, author Lawrence M. Crutcher demonstrates that George Keats deserves better. Crutcher traces his subject from Regency London to the American frontier, correcting the misconceptions surrounding the Keats brothers’ relationship and revealing the details of George’s remarkable life in Louisville, Kentucky. Brilliantly illustrated with more than ninety color photographs, this engaging book reveals how George Keats embraced new business opportunities to become an important member of the developing urban community. In addition, George Keats of Kentucky offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century life, commerce, and entrepreneurship in Louisville and the Bluegrass.

Author : Lawrence M. Crutcher
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813140988

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George Keats of Kentucky by Lawrence M. Crutcher Pdf

John Keats's biographers have rarely been fair to George Keats (1797--1841) -- pushing him to the background as the younger brother, painting him as a prodigal son, or labeling him as the "business brother." Some have even condemned him as a heartless villain who took more than his fair share of an inheritance and abandoned the ailing poet to pursue his own interests. In this authoritative biography, author Lawrence M. Crutcher demonstrates that George Keats deserves better. Crutcher traces his subject from Regency London to the American frontier, correcting the misconceptions surrounding the Keats brothers' relationship and revealing the details of George's remarkable life in Louisville, Kentucky. Brilliantly illustrated with more than ninety color photographs, this engaging book reveals how George Keats embraced new business opportunities to become an important member of the developing urban community. In addition, George Keats of Kentucky offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century life, commerce, and entrepreneurship in Louisville and the Bluegrass.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112057542646

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Letters by John Keats Pdf

Author : Andrew Motion
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571266043

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Keats by Andrew Motion Pdf

Keats is the first major biography of this tragic hero of romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the story is well known - has become, in fact, the stuff of legend: the archetypal life of the tortured genius, critically spurned and dying young.What Andrew Motion brings to bear on the subject is a deep understanding of how Keats fitted into the intellectual and political life of his time. Important friendships with such anti-establishment figures as William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt are given their full due, and the closeness of his own spirit, as expressed in his poems, to the ferment all around is made clear. Many significant new facts about Keats's schooldays and medical training, in particular, enrich the picture. Keats emerges as a more political figure than he is usually portrayed, but his personal sufferings, too, come into closer focus. Most importantly, Andrew Motion - himself a distinguished poet and former poet laureate - demonstrates how the poems continue to exert their power. 'A definitive life of a great poet, and one of the finest biographies of the decade.' New Statesman

Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312329075

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The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman by Flann O'Brien Pdf

First appearing as columns in The Irish Times, the hilarious escapades of Keats and Chapman (based on the Romantic poet and the translator of Homer, respectively) that comprise this volume illuminate the extraordinary talent of Flann O'Brien. Labeled by the author "studies in literary pathology" the vignettes - each concluding in a terrible, bathetic pun - are the work of an extraordinarily funny mind exploring the limits of the shaggy dog story. -- Book jacket.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674039394

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Selected Letters of John Keats by John Keats Pdf

The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle. This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's trifles as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It also offers a revealing look at his posthumous existence, the period of Keats's illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keats's deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr. James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse--omitted from other selections of Keats's letters--offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man. Edited for greater readability, with annotations reduced and punctuation and spelling judiciously modernized, this selection recreates the spontaneity with which these letters were originally written.

Author : Nicholas Roe,Professor of English Literature Nicholas Roe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300124651

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John Keats by Nicholas Roe,Professor of English Literature Nicholas Roe Pdf

Offers a biography of the nineteenth century poet, offering insights into the details of his early life in London, the torments that affected him, and the imaginative sources of his works.

Author : Robert Cooperman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015061317296

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Petitions for Immortality by Robert Cooperman Pdf

This biographical work takes an unorthodox approach to considering the dramatic life of renowned English poet John Keats. By focusing on miniature scenes from Keats' life and enlivening them with friends, family, and adversaries -- as well as the poet himself -- this work pushes the boundaries of traditional biography and fiction and arrives at a vivid sketch of its subject. Particular attention is paid to Keats' brother's death as well as Keats' realisation that he is from a family that is prone to tuberculosis.

Author : Paul Kerschen
Publisher : Roundabout Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948072045

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The Warm South by Paul Kerschen Pdf

The daringly imagined, masterfully realized story of poet John Keats's second life abroad. What if John Keats had not died in Rome at twenty-five, just as he was coming to realize his gifts? In this audaciously imagined alternate life story, the young poet is pulled back from the brink of death only to find his troubles far from over. He is short on money, far from home, his literary reputation anything but assured—but his life and imagination have been spared, and a new country awaits. In an Italy at uneasy peace, full of foreign armies and spies, Keats soon finds his loyalties divided. He is drawn into Percy and Mary Shelley’s expatriate circle, resumes his old profession of surgery and falls in with student revolutionaries who are plotting a more radical cure for their nation. His fiancée in London expects his return, and everyone is expecting his next poem, but he has not returned from his deathbed quite the same person—or poet—that he was. Written with erudition and compassion, Paul Kerschen’s debut novel is a spellbinding historical yarn and a heady engagement with the literature of the past, a thing of beauty in itself and a meditation on the writer’s duty in troubled times. “An ambitious, thrilling work of the imagination... The Warm South is so much: a love story, a historical thriller, a great literary what-if, and a profound meditation on the act of creation itself.” DANIEL MASON, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner “A lyrical and profound exploration of mortality, second chances, art, and ambition. Kerschen writes an alternate history for the beloved poet Keats, allowing him to rise from an early deathbed and experience the gory operating theaters of Pisa, the decadence of Italian Carnival, and a seductive and sometimes dangerous entanglement with Mary and Percy Shelley. Written with elegance and heart, The Warm South pulses with life.” FRANCES DE PONTES PEEBLES, author of The Air You Breathe and The Seamstress “Paul Kerschen’s miraculous first novel grants the poet John Keats an extended life in Italy as the surgeon he trained to be, and as the husband and father he never became. Superbly imagined, impeccably written, uncanny in its intimacy with Keats’s mind and feelings, this book also conjures the Italy in which Keats lived and died—and here lives on. Kerschen brings this mate- rial astonishingly alive and close. This is the best novel I’ve read all year.” CARTER SCHOLZ, author of Gypsy and Radiance “The Warm South offers an alternate biography, a second chance—a daring and deeply imagined portrait of genius made more human, more accessible, and more moving and vital than any history or scholarship can allow.” VU TRAN, author of Dragonfish “A bold strike. Kerschen applies SF’s classic ‘what if’ to literature itself. And like stern Mary Shelley’s monster, the dead poet stirs, and rises, and walks. But the path between the old world and his new friends is steep... Come.” TERRY BISSON, author of Any Day Now and Bears Discover Fire

Author : Sir Sidney Colvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKCWF

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Keats by Sir Sidney Colvin Pdf

Author : Jarrett Pumphrey,Jerome Pumphrey
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781324005186

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The Old Boat by Jarrett Pumphrey,Jerome Pumphrey Pdf

A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2021 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2021 The creators of The Old Truck set sail with an old boat and an evocative, intricately crafted exploration of home and family. Off a small island, an old boat sets sail and a young boy finds home. Together, boy and boat ride the shifting tides, catching wants and wishes until fate calls for a sea change. Brothers and collaborators Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey’s newest picture book is a masterfully crafted celebration of the natural world and tribute to the families we make and the homes that we nurture.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 172165416X

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Isabella by John Keats Pdf

Isabella or The Pot of Basil A Story from Boccaccio John Keats This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387316742

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Poems 1817 by John Keats Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : OXFORD:N14188935

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The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats by John Keats Pdf