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John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is deeply human and moral, in the most capacious sense of the words. In this authoritative biography—the first full-length life of Keats in almost forty years—the man and the poet are portrayed with rare insight and sympathy. In spite of a scarcity of factual data for his early years, the materials for Keats's life are nevertheless unusually full. Since most of his early poetry has survived, his artistic development can be observed more closely than is possible with most writers; and there are times during the period of his greatest creativity when his personal as well as his artistic life can be followed week by week.</p> <p>The development of Keats's poetic craftsmanship proceeds simultaneously with the steady growth of qualities of mind and character. Mr. Bate has been concerned to show the organic relationship between the poet's art and his larger, more broadly humane development. Keats's great personal appeal—his spontaneity, vigor, playfulness, and affection—are movingly recreated; at the same time, his valiant attempt to solve
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- Author
- Walter Jackson Bate
- Publisher
- Galaxy Books (Oxford University Press) (First Published in 1963 by Harvard University Press)
- Published
- 1966
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674478251
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (115 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14