John Keats

Author(s): Stephen Hebron

Literary biography

John Keats died at an early age, leaving what have become some of the best-known English poems, such as Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to a Grecian Urn, Ode to Melancholy and Ode to Autumn. In this biography of Keats, Stephen Hebron traces Keats' life and development as a poet, assessing his work in the context of the contemporary social and literary scene. After leaving school, Keats gained an apprenticeship to a surgeon and went on to qualify as an apothecary. But increasingly poetry dominated as his principal interest. He began to move in poetic and artistic circles, counting among his friends and acquaintances Leigh Hunt, Benjamin Haydon, Charles Lamb and Percy Bysshe Shelley and it was not long before his poetry was published regularly. Despite admiration of him by contemporary literary figures, reviewers were not as favourable and in his lifetime the majority of his poetry met with harsh criticism.


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  • : 9780712347259
  • : The British Library
  • : The British Library
  • : 0.001
  • : October 2001
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  • : books

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  • : Stephen Hebron
  • : Paperback
  • : very good
  • : 128