Posthumous Keats by Stanley Plumly
A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book and a Washington Post Best of 2008: A book worthy of Keatsfull of feeling and drama and those fleeting moments we call genius.Ted Genoways, Washington Post Book World
"… there have been any number of excellent books published in 2008 whose relevance to our lives will endure beyond the excitability of the momentStanley Plumly’s richly evocative Posthumous Keats, a tour de force of poet-sympathy across the decades." -- Joyce Carol Oates - Times Literary Supplement
"Stanley Plumly has written a haunting study in which the poet’s death overhangs and informs the life… [he] is the ideal companion on what he sees as Keat’s meandering path to both mortality and immortality… The book… has the wisdom, delicacy and insight of long knowing and reading, and of love." -- The Economist
"This is, then, a remarkable book. You need not take my word for it. Christopher Ricks, who knows his onions about Keats, has raved about it; and Jack Stillinger, editor of Keats’s Complete Poems, said “It’s certainly the best book ever written about Keats (and I’ve read all the others) and may be the best book anybody has written on any writer.” Endorsement enough, I think." -- Nicholas Lezard’s Choice - The Guardian
"[Posthumous Keats] manages to shed more light on Keats and his world than any biography could do… Not only has Plumly produced a powerful meditation on Keats, but he has managed also to write that rare thing — a convincing analysis of the creative process." -- Duncan Wu - The Telegraph
"Plumly’s luminous biography." -- The Independent
"Mr. Plumly writes beautifully and very movingly." -- Charles McGrath - The New York Times
"Plumly has written a book to last: worthy of its subject and commensurate with both words of its title." -- Robert Pinsky - Slate
"Stanley Plumly has written a haunting study in which the poet’s death overhangs and informs the life… [he] is the ideal companion on what he sees as Keat’s meandering path to both mortality and immortality… The book… has the wisdom, delicacy and insight of long knowing and reading, and of love." -- The Economist
"This is, then, a remarkable book. You need not take my word for it. Christopher Ricks, who knows his onions about Keats, has raved about it; and Jack Stillinger, editor of Keats’s Complete Poems, said “It’s certainly the best book ever written about Keats (and I’ve read all the others) and may be the best book anybody has written on any writer.” Endorsement enough, I think." -- Nicholas Lezard’s Choice - The Guardian
"[Posthumous Keats] manages to shed more light on Keats and his world than any biography could do… Not only has Plumly produced a powerful meditation on Keats, but he has managed also to write that rare thing — a convincing analysis of the creative process." -- Duncan Wu - The Telegraph
"Plumly’s luminous biography." -- The Independent
"Mr. Plumly writes beautifully and very movingly." -- Charles McGrath - The New York Times
"Plumly has written a book to last: worthy of its subject and commensurate with both words of its title." -- Robert Pinsky - Slate
Stanley Plumly (1939–2019) was the author of numerous collections of poetry including In the Outer Dark (1970), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and Out-of-the-Body Travel (1978), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other works include Giraffe (1973), Summer Celestial (1983), Boy on the Step (1989), The Marriage in the Trees (1997), and Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970–2000 (2000), Against Sunset (2017), and the posthumous Middle Distance (2020). His collection Old Heart (2009) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He authored four works of prose: Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (2008), which was named runner-up for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography; The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb (2014), which received the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime (2018), and Argument and Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry (2003). Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well as Maryland’s poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393337723 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393337723 |
| Title | Posthumous Keats |
| Author | Stanley Plumly |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2010-02-09 |
| Number of pages | 396 |
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