John Keats

by Walter Jackson Bate and Walter Jackson (Editor) Bates

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674478258
• ISBN13: 9780674478251
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 780 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The great Bate

Jackson Bate does literary biography better than anyone. He's a master and not only offers expert insights into Keats' writing but also presents the man and his life in fine detail. After reading the book you feel thankful that Keats had such a powerful interpreter to even things up a little for him. Too late of course to make a difference to Keats but what a treasure for us.

A Stimulating Biography

I have not read this book yet in its entirety, but I dont want to let the foregoing review be the only word on the subject here--I am sorry that reviewer found it "heavy going," I'll testify that I found the thinking in the two chapters I did read, 13 and 16, to be absolutely gripping and provocative, more than enough to cause me to order my own copy of the book. My sense of this work's importance is that of Mr. Tillotson's.