John Keats and the perils of posterity / Nicholas Roe.
| Author/creator | Roe, Nicholas author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2025. |
| Description | xviii, 347 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | monochrome |
| Physical medium | illustration |
| Physical medium | portrait |
| Contents | A door into the dark -- By the papers -- Fame's dark twilight -- Ashes of genius -- The 1830s -- Cool of the evening -- Simply as editor -- Making minds -- Beyond tomorrow -- Appendix 1. Announcements of Keats's death, March-April 1821 -- Appendix 2. Sources for Richard Monckton Milnes's Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats. |
| Abstract | "This book begins with an account of the disease that killed Keats and contributed to the enduring myth that he was a doomed genius. Newspaper reports of Keats's death and early 'tribute' poems marking his demise form the substance of successive chapters, as do early attempts at researching and writing a biography of him ... This book explores [Richard Monckton] Milnes's efforts and success in publishing his Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats in 1848 -- the first full-scale biography of the poet ... The closing chapters trace the influence of Milnes's book in the later nineteenth century, as new editions and fresh biographies appeared and Keats's reputation grew. The volume devotes many pages to the life experiences of the two women who had been closest to Keats: his sister Fanny and his fianč Fanny Brawne. It also reflects on the means by which the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, and Keats House in Hampstead, were secured as memorial sites"-- Dust jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Roe, Nicholas. John Keats and the perils of posterity. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780198946106 |
| ISBN | 9780198946076 |
| ISBN | 0198946074 hardback |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1093/9780198946106.001.0001 |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000257183 |
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