{"product_id":"2940016141329","title":"Keats","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                      PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Birth and Parentage--School Life at Enfield--Life as Surgeon's\u003cbr\u003e  Apprentice at Edmonton--Awakening to Poetry--Life as Hospital\u003cbr\u003e  Student in London. [1795-1817]                                         1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Particulars of Early Life in London--Friendships and First\u003cbr\u003e  Poems--Henry Stephens--Felton Mathew--Cowden Clarke--Leigh\u003cbr\u003e  Hunt: his Literary and Personal Influence--John Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e  Reynolds--James Rice--Cornelius Webb--Shelley--Haydon--Joseph\u003cbr\u003e  Severn--Charles Wells--Personal Characteristics--\u003cbr\u003e  Determination to publish. [1814-April, 1817]                          18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The _Poems_ of 1817                                                   50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Excursion to Isle of Wight, Margate, and Canterbury--Summer\u003cbr\u003e  at Hampstead--New Friends: Dilke: Brown: Bailey--With Bailey\u003cbr\u003e  at Oxford--Return: Old Friends at Odds--Burford Bridge--Winter\u003cbr\u003e  at Hampstead--Wordsworth: Lamb: Hazlitt--Poetical Activity--\u003cbr\u003e  Spring at Teignmouth--Studies and Anxieties--Marriage and\u003cbr\u003e  Emigration of George Keats. [April, 1817-May, 1818]                   67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Endymion_                                                            93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Northern Tour--The _Blackwood_ and _Quarterly_ reviews--Death\u003cbr\u003e  of Tom Keats--Removal to Wentworth Place--Fanny Brawne--\u003cbr\u003e  Excursion to Chichester--Absorption in Love and Poetry--Haydon\u003cbr\u003e  and money difficulties--Family Correspondence--Darkening\u003cbr\u003e  Prospects--Summer at Shanklin and Winchester--Wise\u003cbr\u003e  Resolutions--Return from Winchester. [June, 1818-October,\u003cbr\u003e  1819]                                                                111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Isabella_--_Hyperion_--_The Eve of St Agnes_--_The Eve of St\u003cbr\u003e  Mark_--_La Belle Dame Sans Merci_--_Lamia_--The Odes--The\u003cbr\u003e  Plays                                                                147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Return to Wentworth Place--Autumn Occupations--The _Cap and\u003cbr\u003e  Bells_--Recast of _Hyperion_--Growing Despondency--Visit of\u003cbr\u003e  George Keats to England--Attack of Illness in February--Rally\u003cbr\u003e  in the Spring--Summer in Kentish Town--Publication of the\u003cbr\u003e  _Lamia_ Volume--Relapse--Ordered South--Voyage to Italy--\u003cbr\u003e  Naples--Rome--Last Days and Death. [October, 1819-Feb. 1821]         180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER IX.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Character and Genius                                                 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  APPENDIX                                                             221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  INDEX                                                                234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKEATS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Birth and Parentage--School Life at Enfield--Life as Surgeon's\u003cbr\u003e    Apprentice at Edmonton--Awakening to Poetry--Life as Hospital Student\u003cbr\u003e    in London. [1795-1817.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScience may one day ascertain the laws of distribution and descent which\u003cbr\u003egovern the births of genius; but in the meantime a birth like that of\u003cbr\u003eKeats presents to the ordinary mind a striking instance of nature's\u003cbr\u003einscrutability. If we consider the other chief poets of the time, we can\u003cbr\u003ecommonly recognize either some strain of power in their blood, or some\u003cbr\u003estrong inspiring influence in the scenery and traditions of their home.\u003cbr\u003eThus we see Scott prepared alike by his origin, associations, and\u003cbr\u003ecircumstances to be the 'minstrel of his clan' and poet of the romance of\u003cbr\u003ethe border wilds; while the spirit of the Cumbrian hills, and the temper\u003cbr\u003eof the generations bred among them, speak naturally through the lips of\u003cbr\u003eWordsworth. Byron seems inspired in literature by demons of the same\u003cbr\u003efroward brood that had urged others of his lineage through lives of\u003cbr\u003eadventure or of crime. But Keats, with instincts and faculties more purely\u003cbr\u003epoetical than any of these, was paradoxically born in a dull and middling\u003cbr\u003ewalk of English city life; and 'if by traduction came his mind,'--to quote\u003cbr\u003eDryden with a difference,--it was through channels too obscure for us to\u003cbr\u003etrace. His father, Thomas Keats, was a west-country lad who came young to\u003cbr\u003eLondon, and while still under twenty held the place of head ostler in a\u003cbr\u003elivery-stable kept by a Mr John Jennings in Finsbury. Presently he married\u003cbr\u003ehis employer's daughter, Frances Jennings; and Mr Jennings, who was a man\u003cbr\u003eof substance, retiring about the same time to live in the country, at\u003cbr\u003ePonder's End, left the management of the business in the hands of his\u003cbr\u003eson-in-law. The young couple lived at the stable, at the sign of the\u003cbr\u003eSwan-and-Hoop, Finsbury Pavement, facing the then open space of Lower\u003cbr\u003eMoorfields.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071175409904,"sku":"2940016141329","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016141329","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}