Joseph Severn, A Life

by Sue Brown

Book Overview

This biography of Joseph Severn (1793-1879), the best known but most controversial of Keats's friends, is based on a mass of newly discovered information, much of it still in private hands. Severn accompanied the dying Keats to Italy, nursed him in Rome and reported on his last weeks there in a famous series of moving letters. After Keats's death in relative obscurity, Severn pressed hard for an early biography and a more fitting memorial in the Protestant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199565023
• ISBN13: 9780199565023
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"