Research Catalog
John Keats : a new life
- Title
- John Keats : a new life / Nicholas Roe.
- Author
- Roe, Nicholas.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-691 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxiv, 446 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure of his vocation while bitterly resentful of the obstacles that blighted his career; devoured by sexual desire and frustration; and in thrall to alcohol and opium. Through unparalleled original research, Roe arrives at a fascinating reassessment of Keats's entire life, from his early years at Keats's Livery Stables through his harrowing battle with tuberculosis and death at age 25. Zeroing in on crucial turning points, Roe finds in the locations of Keats's poems new keys to the nature of his imaginative quest.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Early years, 1795-1814 -- Guy's Hospital, 1814-1817 -- The year of Endymion, 1817 -- Roads of the dead, 1818 -- Conjunctions, 1819 -- Comsumption, 1819-1821.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-691
- ISBN
- 9780300124651 (hc. : alk. paper)
- 0300124651 (hc. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012017299
- OCLC
- 785864747
- Author
- Roe, Nicholas.
- Title
- John Keats : a new life / Nicholas Roe.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-691