Milton and his world
[by] C. V. Wedgwood
The life of the well-known English poet and educator set against the social life and historic events of the seventeenth century.
Read Time: ~8.3 hr
The Keats brothers
by Denise Gigante (2011)
About this book
John and George Keats--man of genius and man of power--embodied sibling forms of Romanticism. George's emigration to the U.S. frontier created an abysm of loneliness and alienation in John that would inspire his most plangent and sublime poetry. Gigante's account places John's life in a transatlantic context that has eluded his previous biographers.
Setting / LocationNew York City
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreThe Keats brothers Lead Character
Readers who enjoyed this also loved
Son of a gun
Justin St. Germain
"In Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001, Debbie St Germain is found dead in her trailer, apparently murdered by her fifth husband. For her twenty-year-old son, Justin, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after. Long after his mother's death is solved, Justin still sleeps with a loaded rifle under his bed. Ultimately, he sets out into the desert landscape of his childhood in an attempt to make sense of the unfathomable. Justin's journey takes him back to the ghost town of Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the OK Corral, to the trailers he and Debbie shared, to the string of stepfathers who were a constant presence in his life. He confronts people from his past and delves into the police records in an attempt to make sense of his mother's life and death. All the while he tries to be the type of man she would have wanted him to be. Brutally honest and beautifully written, Son of a Gun is a brave, unexpected and unforgettable memoir"--Publisher's description.
Somewhere towards the end
Diana Athill
Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs, now aged ninety, and freed from any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: the people and experiences that have taught her to regret very little, to resist despondency and to question the beliefs and customs of her own generation.
John Keats
Stephen Coote
John Keats was the last of the great romantics to be born and the first to die. Stephen Coote uses a range of contemporary sources to throw new light on the poems and rediscovers a poet who set his face against an authoritarian state.