Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography

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May 17, 2008

An acclaimed American poet reflects onthe life and legacy of JohnKeats.

Posthumous Keats is the result ofStanley Plumly's twenty years of reflection onthe enduring afterlife of one of England'sgreatest Romanticists. John Keats's famousepitaph—"Here lies One Whose Name was writ inWater"—helped cement his reputation as thearchetype of the genius cut off before his time. Keats, dead of tuberculosis at twenty-five, sawhis mortality as fatal to his poetry, andtherein, Plumly argues, lies his tragedy: Keatsthought he had failed in his mission "to beamong the English poets."

In thisclose narrative study, Plumly meditates on thechances for poetic immortality—an idea thatfinds its purest expression in Keats, whosepoetic influence remains immense. Incisive inits observations and beautifully written,Posthumous Keats is an ode to anunsuspecting young poet—a man who, against theodds of his culture and critics, managed toachieve the unthinkable: the elevation of thelyric poem to sublime and tragic status.

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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (May 17, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393065731
  • ASIN: B007SRYURM
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.4 inches
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