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Hebron, Stephen

John Keats

(3) YA British Library Writers' Lives series. Keats, the Romantic poet who died at twenty-five, two years after writing "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn," among other celebrated poems, receives engaging biographical treatment. While little attention is paid to Keats's early childhood, the influences that led him away from his early training in medicine to a literary life are well documented. A chronology and facsimiles of manuscripts, letters, and paintings add further interest. Bib., ind.

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