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JOHN KEATS: THE MAKING OF A POET

by Aileen Ward

Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st. 1963

Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. This biography follows Keats, one of the English Romantics, from his childhood, through his education and training as a surgeon, to his untimely death of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. Purple cloth boards, red & silver title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xii and 450 pages including index.

Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Half-title page and last page to rear are browned. A few foxspots present else contents clean. Purple dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine, a little scuffed, grubby to rear panel.

Stock no. 1831195

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Contents

  • I. Close to the Source
  • II. The Widening Stream
  • III. The Dark City
  • IV. The Green Shore
  • V. A Leap in to the Sea
  • VI. Soundings and Quicksands
  • VII. Mist and Crag
  • VIII. The Shores of Darkness
  • IX. The Melancholy Storm
  • X. The Temple of Delight
  • XI. Between Despair and Energy
  • XII. Unmeridian'd and Objectless
  • XIII. A Wrecked Life
  • XIV. End of the Voyage
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Selective Bibliography
  • Index

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