A01=Stanley Plumly
Author_Stanley Plumly
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393337723
- Weight: 489g
- Dimensions: 140 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 09 Feb 2010
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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John Keats’s famous epitaph—"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water”—helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius cut off before his time. In this close narrative study, Stanley Plumly meditates on the chances for poetic immortality, an idea that finds its purest expression in Keats. Incisive in its observations and beautifully written, Posthumous Keats is an ode to an unsuspecting young poet—a man who, against the odds of his culture and critics, managed to achieve the unthinkable: the elevation of the lyric poem to sublime and tragic status.
Stanley Plumly (1939–2019) authored eleven books of poetry, including the National Book Award finalist Old Heart, and four books of nonfiction. His honors include the Paterson Poetry Prize and Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, among others. Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well Maryland’s poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.
