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The letters of Keats have elicited con siderable study and analysis, particularly during the last two or three decades. The attention has been well bestowed. For few poets have been gifted with a more pene trating insight into the workings of their art than that which Keats possessed; and, with the exception of a few marginal annotations, the entire body of Keats's criticism is to be found only in his letters.
The letters of Keats have elicited con siderable study and analysis, particularly during the last two or three decades. The attention has been well bestowed. For few poets have been gifted with a more pene trating insight into the workings of their art than that which Keats possessed; and, with the exception of a few marginal annotations, the entire body of Keats's criticism is to be found only in his letters.
104 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2024
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Walter Jackson Bate
43 books12 followersLiterary critic Walter Jackson Bate twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, first for his work on the Romantic poet John Keats, and later for that on lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson.
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