Lives of the Poet: The First Century of Keats BiographyPennsylvania State University Press, 1985 - 133 páginas Focused on Keats, this study of the development of literary biography in the 19th and early 20th centuries demonstrates the influence and importance of biography as a form. In a dramatic narrative, we see Keat's reputation developing from minor to major poet and follow the increase of his influence on the English and American poets of the century after his death. After analyzing the autobiographical content of Keat's writing to establish the primary materials with which future biographers would work, the book proceeds through the first century of biographies of Keats, showing the importance of his biographers to his rise to prominence, and concluding with the outstanding biographical studies of the last twenty years, based on a more thorough understanding of texts and dates. This book will have a strong appeal to scholars interested in the literature and culture of the Victorian period, biography as form, 19th-century intellectual history, and major poets of the English language. An earlier version of this manuscript was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize at Harvard. |
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... fear celebrity ; and , by extinguishing the desire of fame and posthumous glory , destroy one powerful motive to excellence . " In this sense , Boswell's very success may have contributed to arresting the development of candid biography ...
... fear that he may not be worthy : " I am in doubt , " he writes in the epistle to Mathew , " whether at all / I shall again see Phoebus in the morning : / Or flush'd Aurora in the roseate dawning ! " ( lines 20-22 ) In the epistle to ...
... fears . In fact , Keats's last doctors followed a belief akin to Arnold's in forbidding the writing of poetry , for fear that it would excite him unduly and further de- vour his wasted body . But only an overemphasis on the pathetic ...
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A Continual Allegory | 15 |
Strange Customs | 37 |
Inheriting Unfulfilled Renown | 59 |
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