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Bezig met laden... Keats : a brief life in nine poems and one epitaphdoor Lucasta Miller
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I struggled a bit to work out who this book is for. It's too unsystematic and superficial to be any sort of serious introduction. Recent scholarship is lightly touched on and moved away from before it gets really interesting and occasionally there is a slightly dutiful and secondhand feel to some of the writing (e.g. the passage on Peterloo and 'To Autumn'). Occasionally I felt the book was about to veer off into personal memoir but it always pulls back and that is to Lucasta Miller's credit I think. The choice of poems is sound but unsurprising. Overall though I was glad to have read it despite reservations. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"A new biography of John Keats that uncovers the reality of his imagination within the context of his time"--
"The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion. When he died at the age of twenty-five, having taken a battering from the conservative press, few critics imagined he would be considered one of the great English poets two hundred years later, though he himself had an inkling. In this brief life, Lucasta Miller takes Keats's best-known poems - the ones you are most likely to have read - and excavates their backstories. In doing so, she resurrects the real Keats: a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and dysfunctional family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression; a human being who delighted in the sensation of the moment; but a complex individual, not the ethereal figure of his posthumous myth. Combining close-up readings of his writings with the story of his brief but teeming existence, Lucasta Miller shows us how Keats made his poetry, and explains why it retains its vertiginous originality and continues to speak to us across the generations." -- Amazon.com. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)821.7Literature English English poetry 1800-1837, romantic periodLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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