The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is deeply human and moral, in the most capacious sense of the words. In this authoritative biography--the first full-length life of Keats in almost forty years--the man and the poet are portrayed with rare insight and sympathy. In spite of a scarcity of factual data for his early years, the materials for Keats's life are nevertheless unusually full. Since most of his early ...
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The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is deeply human and moral, in the most capacious sense of the words. In this authoritative biography--the first full-length life of Keats in almost forty years--the man and the poet are portrayed with rare insight and sympathy. In spite of a scarcity of factual data for his early years, the materials for Keats's life are nevertheless unusually full. Since most of his early poetry has survived, his artistic development can be observed more closely than is possible with most writers; and there are times during the period of his greatest creativity when his personal as well as his artistic life can be followed week by week.The development of Keats's poetic craftsmanship proceeds simultaneously with the steady growth of qualities of mind and character. Mr. Bate has been concerned to show the organic relationship between the poet's art and his larger, more broadly humane development. Keats's great personal appeal--his spontaneity, vigor, playfulness, and affection--are movingly recreated; at the same time, his valiant attempt to solve the problem faced by all modern poets when they attempt to achieve originality and amplitude in the presence of their great artistic heritage is perceptively presented.In discussing this matter, Mr. Bate says, "The pressure of this anxiety and the variety of reactions to it constitute one of the great unexplored factors in the history of the arts since 1750. And in no major poet, near the beginning of the modern era, is this problem met more directly than it is in Keats. The way in which Keats was somehow able, after the age of twenty-two, to confront this dilemma, and to transcend it, has fascinated every major poet who has used the English language since Keats's death and also every major critic since the Victorian era."Mr. Bate has availed himself of all new biographical materials, published and unpublished, and has used them selectively and without ostentation, concentrating on the things that were meaningful to Keats. Similarly, his discussions of the poetry are not buried beneath the controversies of previous critics. He approaches the poems freshly and directly, showing their relation to Keats's experience and emotions, to premises and values already explored in the biographical narrative. The result is a book of many dimensions, not a restricted critical or biographical study but a fully integrated whole.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1450grams, ISBN: 0674478002.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Minor shelf wear to binding with loose rear hinge. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Tanning on front pastedown & endpaper. Text and images unmarked. Price clipped dj quite shelf worn with Pulitzer Prize Winner label on front panel. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
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Good. Size: 9x6x1; Hardcover first edition with tight binding and clean, unmarked text. In very good condition but is missing dust jacket. Not ex-library.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; Hardcover and dust jacket. Jacket differs from pictured. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small tears to jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. xvii, 732 pages: illustrations, portraits, map, papers, facsimiles, 24 cm. John Keats was an English Romantic lyric poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend.
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Good with no dust jacket. Foxing to the edge of pages and endpapers. Personal stamp on one of the first non-text pages. Otherwise in good condition. No writing or major blemishes.; -We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Good. Size: 9x6x1; hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, cocked, corners bumped, dust jacket chipping and closed edge tears, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
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Good. 1st edition 1st printing-no dust jacket-stamp on copyright page-wear to inside last page-some staining to cover and page edge-slight wear to bottom front cover edge-otherwise binding strong contents clean-enjoy.