LEADER 03476nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910824967703321 005 20230725054352.0 010 $a0-674-06272-8 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674062726 035 $a(CKB)2550000000074760 035 $a(OCoLC)768572189 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10518206 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000551571 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11355821 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551571 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10525165 035 $a(PQKB)11724163 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300996 035 $a(DE-B1597)178274 035 $a(OCoLC)1013954331 035 $a(OCoLC)900772785 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674062726 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300996 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10518206 035 $a(OCoLC)923117681 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000074760 100 $a20110406d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Keats brothers$b[electronic resource] $ethe life of John and George /$fDenise Gigante 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (552 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-04856-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. 1816-1817 and before -- pt. 2. 1818 -- pt. 3. 1819 -- pt. 4. 1820-1841 and after. 330 $aJohn and George Keats-Man of Genius and Man of Power, to use John's words-embodied sibling forms of the phenomenon we call Romanticism. George's 1818 move to the western frontier of the United States, an imaginative leap across four thousand miles onto the tabula rasa of the American dream, created in John an abysm of alienation and loneliness that would inspire the poet's most plangent and sublime poetry. Denise Gigante's account of this emigration places John's life and work in a transatlantic context that has eluded his previous biographers, while revealing the emotional turmoil at the heart of some of the most lasting verse in English. In most accounts of John's life, George plays a small role. He is often depicted as a scoundrel who left his brother destitute and dying to pursue his own fortune in America. But as Gigante shows, George ventured into a land of prairie fires, flat-bottomed riverboats, wildcats, and bears in part to save his brothers, John and Tom, from financial ruin. There was a vital bond between the brothers, evident in John's letters to his brother and sister-in-law, Georgina, in Louisville, Kentucky, which run to thousands of words and detail his thoughts about the nature of poetry, the human condition, and the soul. Gigante demonstrates that John's 1819 Odes and Hyperion fragments emerged from his profound grief following George's departure and Tom's death-and that we owe these great works of English Romanticism in part to the deep, lasting fraternal friendship that Gigante reveals in these pages. 606 $aPoets, English$y19th century$vBiography 606 $aEnglish$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aPoets, English 615 0$aEnglish 676 $a821/.7 676 $aB 686 $aHL 3305$2rvk 700 $aGigante$b Denise$f1965-$01636405 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824967703321 996 $aThe Keats brothers$94046625 997 $aUNINA