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- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- ISBN: 0226542408
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100978688
- Release Date: April 15, 1999
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Keats" by Andrew Motion to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Keats"Browse more products related to "Andrew Motion"Review"Whether illuminating Keats's famous lines or unearthing long-occluded facts about the most ill-starred of English Romantic poets, this superb biographical study displays an unusually sensitive erudition....Motion writes sprightly, striking prose....Far from burying Keats in a doorstop-biography tomb, Motion has embodied him in a book that is itself vehemently enjoyable." "Here...is the heartbreaking intensity and brevity of Keats's life (still not to be read without tears)....But for those who know the other modern biographies, Motion's is not appealing....Motion, though for the most part serviceable, is often not a pleasure to read. There are numerous repellent anachronisms of reference.... In short, this is not the biography of a poet by a poet that one had hoped for." "Motion's aim is not to supersede the previous biographies, many of which he admires, but to build on them, to debate their conclusions, and to add a more modern dimension....The research that lies behind the book is impressive....Although the story is well and clearly told, some passages carry a whiff of the 'Dictionary of National Biography'....In reading [this] excellent book, I longed for the author, who knows and understands so much about Keats, to...offer us some bolder speculations and some more adventurous phrases." "No poet has been more discussed by other poets than Keats, and Andrew Motion, one of the best English poets now writing and himself a gifted biographer of poets..., has given him one of the most extended treatments ever devoted by one poet to another. Unlike some of his predecessors, Mr. Motion is more interested in puncturing myths than in promoting them....Mr. Motion's most controversial reversal of stereotypes is the one that makes Keats into a man of radical politics." "The more one knows about some artists the less one likes them....For me, however, 'Keats' caused the opposite reaction. With every chapter my already deep admiration grew for this gracious and tormented genius. Motion may have failed in painting a political portrait, but he surely succeeded in creating an inspiring one." Publisher's noteAndrew Motion's dramatic narration of Keas'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 seats inhabited. Making incisive use of the poet's imitable letters, Motion present a masterful account. AnnotationMotion's lively biography of Keats highlights the poet's toughness, his political radicalism, and his appetite for life. Andrew Motion was appointed England's Poet Laureate in 1999 following the death of Ted Hughes. If You Enjoy "Keats (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Keats (Paperback)" by Andrew Motion (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Literary Bestsellers
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