The Life and Times of John Keats

The Life and Times of John Keats offers an illuminating account of the poet's brief passage through Georgian England: his London childhood, medical apprenticeship, literary friendships, passionate attachments, declining health, and final exile in Rome. Written with a lyrical, reflective elegance suited to its subject, the book situates Keats within the second generation of Romanticism, where sensuous imagery, classical aspiration, and the doctrine of negative capability reshaped English poetry. John Keats, born in 1795 and dead of tuberculosis at twenty-five, lived amid bereavement, professional uncertainty, and fierce critical hostility. His training as an apothecary-surgeon sharpened his awareness of bodily fragility, while his friendships with Leigh Hunt, Charles Brown, and other literary figures nourished his ambition. These pressures help explain the book's concern with mortality, beauty, vocation, and the cost of poetic intensity. This volume is recommended to readers seeking more than a simple biographical outline. It will especially reward students of Romantic literature, admirers of Keats's odes, and anyone interested in how a short life could generate one of the most enduring poetic legacies in English letters.

Pagina's: 708, Paperback, Sharp Ink