Keats
Author(s): Andrew Motion
The outline of the story of John Keats's life is well known: the archetypal life of the Romantic genius, critically spurned and dying young. This biography aims to enrich the facts with an understanding of how Keats fitted into the intellectual and political life of his time. It includes detailed examination of significant friendships with anti-establishment figures such as Hazlitt and Hunt, and the closeness of Keats's own spirit to the ferment all around, as expressed in his poems. The book also presents information about his schooldays and medical training.
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Andrew Motion won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Biography for "Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life". He has also won a Somerset Maugham Award.
Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life - his authorised life of Philip Larkin - won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday. Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009.
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber
- : Faber & Faber
- : 0.762
- : 17 February 2003
- : 215mm X 135mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Andrew Motion
- : Andrew Motion
- : illustrations facsimiles, map, plan, portraits
- : illustrations facsimiles, map, plan, portraits
- : 672
- : 672
- : 821.7
- : 821.7
- : New edition
- : New edition
- : Paperback
- : Paperback