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Gigante, Denise, 1965-

The Keats brothers : the life of John and George / Denise Gigante.

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

ix, 499 p., [40] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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.

Keats, John, 1795-1821.

Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Family.

Keats, George, 1797-1841.

Keats, George, 1797-1841 -- Homes and haunts -- United States.

Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.

English -- United States -- Biography.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-461) and index.

pt. 1. 1816-1817 and before -- To my brother George : Margate ; Young men in London ; The vale of health ; Cheapside reminiscences -- What mad pursuit? : Hampstead ; The Isle of Wight ; Canterbury and Bo Peep ; Oxford ; Paris ; Box Hill and Teignmouth -- pt. 2. 1818 -- Man of genius and man of power : Emigration fever ; Devonshire ; Brunswick Square ; Separation at Liverpool -- The Mountains of Tartary and of Allegheny : The Telegraph ; Philadelphia ; Poor Tom ; The great western road ; Pittsburgh -- pt. 3. 1819 -- Circumstances gathering like clouds : The great odes and The Fall of Hyperion ; Down the Ohio ; Letters across the Atlantic ; Cincinnati -- Backwoods and blind alleys : Winchester ; Past the falls ; Harmony ; The Red Banks Trail ; Audubon and the mill -- pt. 4. 1820-1841 and after -- Back across the Atlantic : Death warrant ; The Courier ; Poor John ; The dark and bloody ground ; The man from Natchez -- Posthumous lives ; Naples ; Life in Louisville ; Rome ; Poor George -- Epilogue : Blue!.

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