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At the heart of this ´Literary Life´ are fresh interpretations of Keats´s most loved poems, alongside other neglected but rich poems. The readings are placed in the context of his letters to family and friends, his medical training, radical politics of the time, his love for Fanny Brawne, his coterie of literary figures and his tragic early death.

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Acknowledgements List of abbreviations ´He could not quiet be´´Aesculapius´´Was there a poet born?´´Fraternal souls´ and Poems (1817) ´That which is creative must create itself: 1817 and Endymion ´- Things real - things semireal - and no things -´: 1818: January to June Walking north and the death of Tom: 1818: July to December ´A Gordian complication of feelings´: love, women and romance ´Tease us out of thought´: May 1819: Odes Playwright Autumn in Winchester ´A frog in a frost´: the final journey Poems (1820) Bibliography Index

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R.S. WHITE has taught at the University of Newcastle on Tyne, UK, and is now Australian Professorial Fellow and Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. He has published books on Shakespeare, Keats and Hazlitt. Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (1996) was followed by Natural Rights in Romanticism of the 1790s (Palgrave, 2005) and Pacifism and English Literature: Minstrels of Peace (Palgrave, 2008).

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