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Cloudy Trophies.('Posthumous Keats')
In July, 1820, John Keats published his third and final book, "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems." He had no reason to expect that it would be a success, with either the public or the critics: in his short career, the twenty-four-year-old poet had known nothing but rejection on both fronts. After his first book, "Poems," appeared, in 1817, his publishers, the brothers Charles and James Ollier, refused to have anything more to do with him. In a letter to the poet's brother George, they wrote, "We regret that your brother ever requested us to publish his book, or that our opinion of its talent should have led us to acquiesce in undertaking it." They went ...
- A look beyond the tragic mystique: Posthumous Keats.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Ladd, Matthew June 22, 2008 700+ words
...Look Beyond the Tragic Mystique POSTHUMOUS KEATS By Stanley Plumly, W. W...over the past 40 years, and Posthumous Keats often reads less like a biography...way. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Posthumous Keats also offers up an argument...
- Keats, John: Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Biography Kirsch, Adam September 22, 2008 700+ words
Keats, John Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography. Stanley Plumly. New York: Norton, 2008. 288 pp. $27.95. Posthumous Keats is a "moving new study of the poet's work and legend." Adam Kirsch. The New Yorker, July 7-14, 2008: 92-94.
- Posthumous Keats; a personal biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2009 700+ words
9780393065732 Posthumous Keats; a personal biography. Plumly, Stanley. W.W. Norton 2008 392...the possible and potential afterlife of British Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821), Plumly (U. of Maryland-College Park) sought...
- Keats's TO HAYDON, WITH A SONNET WRITTEN ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES and ON...
- The Explicator GUMPERT, MATTHEW September 22, 1999 700+ words
...Walter Jackson Bate, in his biography of Keats, wrote, "[O]n either Saturday, March 1, or Monday, March 3, Haydon took Keats and Reynolds to see the Elgin Marbles...Immediately we are reminded again of Keats's intoxication with the ideal of greatness...
- Keats anniversary inspires BBC to stage day of poetry
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London David Lister Arts Correspondent October 24, 1995 700+ words
...of Jane Austen with a passion for John Keats. As the dramatisation of Pride and Prejudice...Romantic poet's birth next Tuesday. Keats will be the first poet ever to have his...programmes. The BBC will even put a John Keats research site on the Internet. James Runcie...
- Keats and Romantic Celticism.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle Scott, Grant F. September 22, 2006 700+ words
Christine Gallant, Keats and Romantic Celticism. (Palgrave, 2005) 174. $65.00 Keats's interest in Celtic mythology, Druids and...remarked before but usually in passing. Gallant's Keats and Romantic Celticism offers the first full...
- Keats' tragic love story, poetry enticed director.(NW Arts&Life)
- Newspaper article from: The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) September 20, 2009 700+ words
...a fairer word than fair." -- John Keats to Fanny Brawne, 1819 Young love would be the only love the British poet John Keats would ever know. The author of "Ode on...then called consumption) would claim Keats' brief, vivid life. Their story is eloquently...
- Keats's On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.(John Keats)
- Magazine article from: The Explicator Plung, Daniel L. June 22, 2004 700+ words
From the 1816 publication of John Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's...raised about the historical correctness of Keats's reference to Cortez. (1) Since then...come to diverse opinions about whether Keats intentionally substituted Cortez for Balboa...
