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| Original Title: | Keats |
| ISBN: | 0226542408 (ISBN13: 9780226542409) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | John Keats |
Andrew Motion
Paperback | Pages: 656 pages Rating: 4.18 | 341 Users | 39 Reviews
Identify Containing Books Keats
| Title | : | Keats |
| Author | : | Andrew Motion |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 656 pages |
| Published | : | April 15th 1999 by University Of Chicago Press (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Biography. Poetry. Nonfiction. History. Medievalism. Romanticism. Classics |
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Andrew Motion's dramatic narration of Keats's life is the first in a generation to take a fresh look at this great English Romantic poet. Unlike previous biographers, Motion pays close attention to the social and political worlds Keats inhabited. Making incisive use of the poet's inimitable letters, Motion presents a masterful account."Motion has given us a new Keats, one who is skinned alive, a genius who wrote in a single month all the poems we cherish, a victim who was tormented by the best doctors of the age. . . . This portrait, stripped of its layers of varnish and restored to glowing colours, should last us for another generation."—Edmund White, The Observer Review
"Keats's letters fairly leap off the page. . . . [Motion] listens for the 'freely associating inquiry and incomparable verve and dash,' the 'headlong charge,' of Keats's jazzlike improvisations, which give us, like no other writing in English, the actual rush of a man thinking, a mind hurtling forward unpredictably and sweeping us along."—Morris Dickstein, New York Times Book Review
"Scrupulous and eloquent."—Gregory Feeley, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating Containing Books Keats
Ratings: 4.18 From 341 Users | 39 ReviewsAppraise Containing Books Keats
Long and comprehensive depiction of Keat's life from his childhood to his devasting early death. Motion includes detailed background and analysis of Keat's poetry as well as heavily researched details on Keat's wide friend group. Its said to be less scholarly than Nicholas Roe's biography and an excellent introduction to the man. Motion does a fantastic job at revealing the transition of Keat's poetry from political pieces and Immature ramblings to a sincere overflow of his heart. Its nice toA dense, highly analytical look at Keats' life. I sometimes found Motion's style a little tough to follow (there were a couple of pages that my eyes kind of slid over and I had to go back), but it's a very fine biography of Keats.
I've been picking through this biography for a paper, and can't wait to sit down and read the whole thing! Keats was a fascinating and tragic figure.------------I think I have some things to say about Keats, but it's late, and reading about the end of his life has made me sad. Review to come.------------OK. Where to begin? I should mention that I've been a fan of Keats, as much as I can be a fan without being particularly skilled at reading and understanding poetry, for several years. The odes,
Spoiler: Keats achieves his dearest dream of becoming one of the great English poets in the end. About thirty years after his death.This is a detailed and well written biography of the seminal "poet who died too young." One might think that a man who lived only 25 years would have a short bio, but Motion puts Keats in context with his times and politics. Every detail of the poet's short life is examined, and the poetry is critiqued closely. Safe to say that when you have finished thus book, you
This is one of my favourites! I used this heavily when I was writing my dissertation as it was one of the most recently published book on the poet available to me. I used Gittings, Bloom, Hunt and Plumly (and others I can't remember) obviously, but Motion was like a breath of fresh air. His understanding of Keats came from an entirely different direction. He seemed to be free of political bias and created a Keats that wasn't just a poor boy whom nobody loved. Motion's Keats was astounding and
I love Keats' poetry but I found this biography dull and the picture it gives of Keats is frustrating. There is too much analysis of the poetry for an easy flowing biography. And Keats' improvidence annoyed me. Why ever would he expect to live on poetry writing alone? Even the wonderful Odes are not enough to sustain a lifetime's income, even for so short a life as Keats'. His refusal to earn by other means and his frustration at bad reviews and poor sales seem to be just not facing up to
It's rare when a biography can make you feel attached to the subject. I don't mean as in an emotional attachment, which certainly was part of it for me, but I mean attached to their world as if you were there with them, seeing it for yourself instead of just reading about it. That is exactly what Andrew Motion has done with this biography of Keats. Through literary analysis, accounts of those who knew Keats, and through Keats' own letters, Motion makes Keats feel very real. While reading this I
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