Lucasta Miller
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 and was shaped by the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, a time of conservatism when values were in flux. She began publishing poetry in her teens and came to be known as a daring poet of thwarted romantic love. We see L.E.L. as an emblematic figure who embodied a seismic cultural shift, the missing link between the age of Byron and the creation...