Books by John Keats
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English
review 1: I found the letters fascinating but I also felt a bit ashamed to be reading the personal things he intended for only Fanny to read and that his privacy was so neglected that the letters were even published in the first place. Having said that, they inspired a very romantic, tragi...
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English
review 1: I feel like the poems and letters made a fairly visible and hard to watch/hard to look away from transition between thoughtful and romantic to frantic, paranoid, obsessive and overwhelming. Particularly the last two letters and two poems were almost begging fanny never to look or...
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review 1: As with the rest of Keats, wonderful energy and intensity with a hint of madness. The letters form, at once, both an epistolary novella that is quite vivid, and fluid prose poetry. I give it 4 rather than 5 stars because of the occasional crazy stuff he says in here, for example ...
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English
review 1: While English Romantic is not my favorite genre of literature, I do appreciate it. It informs a lot of the architecture I came to appreciate, and the survival of abbeys and monasteries throughout the UK. In reading Keats' letters to Fanny Brawne and his contemporaneous poetry, it...