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Life of John Keats

By William Michael Rossetti

2020-02-28 01:43:33

John Keats was the latest born of the great Romantic poets. Along with Byron and Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the movement, despite publishing his work over only a four-year period. The poetry of Keats was charac ... Read more
John Keats was the latest born of the great Romantic poets. Along with Byron and Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the movement, despite publishing his work over only a four-year period. The poetry of Keats was characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. "In all important respects, I leave this brief "Life of Keats" to speak for itself. There is only one point which I feel it needful to dwell upon. In the summer of 1886, I was invited to undertake a life of Keats for the present series, and I assented." William Michael Rossetti was an English writer and critic. He was one of the seven founder members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 and became the movement's unofficial organizer and bibliographer. Less

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File size199.603 KB
Print pages226
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2018-11-11
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780469496774
William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic. Born in London, he was a son of immigrant Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti and his wife Frances Ross...

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