A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. "For awhile after you quit Keats," Fitzgerald once wrote, "All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming." John Keats died 200 years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began 100 years ago, the Jazz Age. In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan ...(展开全部)

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. "For awhile after you quit Keats," Fitzgerald once wrote, "All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming." John Keats died 200 years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began 100 years ago, the Jazz Age. In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan ...(展开全部)

"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --"Associated Press " The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world. Now in a new...(展开全部)

"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --"Associated Press " The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world. Now in a new...(展开全部)

Helen Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats's whole career. She proposes that these poems, usually read separately, are imperfectly seen unless seen together--that they form a sequence in which Keats pursued a strict and profound inquiry into questions ...(展开全部)

Helen Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats's whole career. She proposes that these poems, usually read separately, are imperfectly seen unless seen together--that they form a sequence in which Keats pursued a strict and profound inquiry into questions ...(展开全部)

◎作者简介 美国文学评论界的领军人物——海伦·文德勒(Helen Vendler，1933—2024)。文德勒被称为当代极为优秀、敏锐的诗歌评论家之一。她于1960年获得哈佛大学文学博士学位，先后在康奈尔大学、波士顿大学等大学任职。1984年开始在哈佛大学英语系任教，兼任美国艺术与科学研究院院士。1990年，被任命为哈佛大学亚瑟·金斯利·波特讲座教授。文德勒专注于诗人和诗歌作品的细读，具有“铁血战士般的战斗力”,被誉为“力量型的诗歌读者”。她多年来笔耕不辍，推出多部关于英美诗人的专著，因为卓越的贡献，获得了代表美国最高人文成就的国家人文基金等无数荣誉和奖项。2024年4月23日，在加利福尼亚州拉古纳尼格尔的家中去世，享年90岁。 ◎译者简介 许淑芳，浙江传媒学院文学院教授，博士毕业于浙江大学人文学院，主要从事外国文学翻译和研究工作，译有加里·斯奈德《...(展开全部)

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen...(展开全部)

W.杰克逊•贝特（W. Jackson Bate，1918-1999），哈佛大学A.金斯利·波特（A. Kingsley Porter）校级教授。曾两度获得普利策传记奖，获奖作品为《济慈传》（1963）和《塞缪尔•约翰生传》（1977）。《约翰生传》同时获得了1978年美国国家图书奖、全美书评人协会奖。