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The Keats Brothers

The Life of John and George

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ISBN 9780674725959

Publication Date: 10/07/2013

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552 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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  • Editorial Note
  • Prologue
  • Part One: 1816–1817 and Before
    • 1. To My Brother George
      • Margate
      • Young Men in London
      • The Vale of Health
      • Cheapside Reminiscences
    • 2. What Mad Pursuit?
      • Hampstead
      • The Isle of Wight
      • Canterbury and Bo Peep
      • Oxford
      • Paris
      • Box Hill and Teignmouth
  • Part Two: 1818
    • 3. Man of Genius and Man of Power
      • Emigration Fever
      • Devonshire
      • Brunswick Square
      • Separation at Liverpool
    • 4. The Mountains of Tartary and of Allegheny
      • The Telegraph
      • Philadelphia
      • Poor Tom
      • The Great Western Road
      • Pittsburgh
  • Part Three: 1819
    • 5. Circumstances Gathering Like Clouds
      • The Great Odes and The Fall of Hyperion
      • Down the Ohio
      • Letters across the Atlantic
      • Cincinnati
    • 6. Backwoods and Blind Alleys
      • Winchester
      • Past the Falls
      • Harmony
      • The Red Banks Trail
      • Audubon and the Mill
  • Part Four: 1820–1841 and After
    • 7. Back across the Atlantic
      • Death Warrant
      • The Courier
      • Poor John
      • The Dark and Bloody Ground
      • The Man from Natchez
    • 8. Posthumous Lives
      • Naples
      • Life in Louisville
      • Rome
      • Poor George
    • Epilogue: Blue!
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Awards & Accolades

  • A New York Times Notable Book, 2011
  • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2011

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