Description
Author Andrew Motion
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding First American Edition, Hardcover with Brodart Archival Cover
Condition like new
Summary
In Keats: A Biography, acclaimed poet and biographer Andrew Motion offers a masterful and emotionally resonant portrait of the beloved Romantic poet John Keats. Drawing on extensive archival research and new interpretations, Motion moves beyond the myth of the doomed, tubercular genius to reveal the human being behind the verse—an ambitious, sensitive young man who struggled against poverty, heartbreak, and illness while producing some of the most luminous poetry in the English language. This biography vividly recreates Keats’s London literary circles, his passionate relationship with Fanny Brawne, and the tragic arc of a life cut short at just 25. Elegantly written and richly detailed, Motion’s biography is essential for lovers of poetry and those seeking to understand the soul behind the sonnets. This copy is in like-new condition, protected by a Brodart archival cover.