Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography

Author: Stanley Plumly

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Price : 27.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780393337723
Publisher : WW Norton & Co
Imprint : WW Norton & Co
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Weight (g) : 0.32
Publication date : 09 February 2010
Dimensions : 207mm X 143mm X 25mm
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Pages : 400
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A result of twenty years of reflection on the enduring afterlife of one of England's greatest Romantic poets - John Keats, this book meditates on the chances for poetic immortality - an idea that finds its purest expression in Keats. It is an ode to an unsuspecting young poet who managed to achieve the unthinkable.

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"This is a persuasive and moving tribute to John Keats's life and work...It manages to shed more light on Keats and his world than any biography could do." The Daily Telegraph "Stanley Plumly's richly evocative Posthumous Keats, a tour de force of poet-sympathy across the decades..." Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement, Christmas Roundup 2008 "An intricate, intriguing and detailed biography..." The Good Book Guide

Author description

Stanley Plumly has written nine books of poetry. His many honours include the William Carlos Williams Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Plumly is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.