The Life and Times of John Keats: Complete Personal letters & Two Extensive Biographies
Romantic Era Correspondence, Biography, and Artistic Self-DiscoveryBy John Keats
Length41h 48m
About this audiobook
The Life and Times of John Keats: Complete Personal Letters & Two Extensive Biographies presents an expansive portrait of one of English Romanticism's most influential poets. Combining intimate correspondence with substantial biographical narratives, the volume places Keats's poems within the material, intellectual, and emotional circumstances of his brief life. His letters reveal a remarkable prose style—playful, candid, argumentative, and richly imaginative—while the biographies illuminate his friendships, literary ambitions, medical training, financial anxieties, and developing theories of beauty and poetic perception. Together, these materials create a textured account of the poet behind such enduring works as "Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn," while situating him within the cultural and literary tensions of the early nineteenth century. Keats's writing emerged from an unusually concentrated period of artistic growth, shaped by personal loss, social insecurity, intense friendships, and his determination to pursue poetry despite limited worldly advantages. His correspondence offers particularly valuable evidence of the intellectual self-fashioning that produced his ideas of negative capability, imaginative sympathy, and the "vale of Soul-making." Read alongside the biographies, the letters disclose not merely private experience but the working mind of a major poet. This volume is recommended to readers seeking both an accessible life of Keats and primary evidence for understanding his art. It will reward students, scholars, and general readers alike, offering an unusually comprehensive introduction to his personality, historical setting, and literary achievement.
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length41 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Laboratory (From Dramatic Romances and Lyrics) (Annotated)
26Life and Letters of John Ketas (pt. 1)
2The Life and Times of John Keats: Complete Personal letters & Two Extensive Biographies
27Life and Letters of John Ketas (pt. 2)
3Biographies:
28Life and Letters of John Ketas (pt. 3)
4Life of John Keats by Sidney Colvin
29Letters
5Preface
30Preface
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6Chapter I
31To Charles Cowden Clarke
7Chapter II
32To Benjamin Robert Haydon
8Chapter III
33To Benjamin Robert Haydon
9Chapter IV
34To Charles Cowden Clarke
10Chapter V
35To John Hamilton Reynolds
11Chapter VI
36To John Hamilton Reynolds
12Chapter VII
37To George and Thomas Keats
13Chapter VIII
38To John Hamilton Reynolds
14Chapter IX
39To Leigh Hunt
15Chapter X
40To Benjamin Robert Haydon
16Chapter XI
41To Messrs. Taylor and Hessey
17Chapter XII
42To Messrs. Taylor and Hessey
18Chapter XIII
43To Mariane and Jane Reynolds
19Chapter XIV
44To Fanny Keats
20Chapter XV
45To Jane Reynolds
21Chapter XVI
46To John Hamilton Reynolds
22Chapter XVII
47To Benjamin Robert Haydon
23Appendix
48To Benjamin Bailey
24Dedication
49To Benjamin Bailey
25Preface
50To Benjamin Bailey
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