Word: aileen
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JOHN KEATS, by Walter Jackson Bate; JOHN KEATS, by Aileen Ward. Both these new biographies contest the legend of Keats as a romantic weakling "half in love with easeful death," reveal him instead as a vigorous, tough-minded young man who fought his fatal disease as stubbornly as he did the local bully. Bate concentrates on the poet's work, Miss Ward on the poet's life...
After Hearst's a.m. New York Mirror sank without a burble, most of the columnists swam over to Hearst's p.m. Journal-American. But there was a bit of a problem for Society Snippet Suzy (Mrs. Aileen Mehle). The J-A already had Cholly Knickerbocker, and there are just so many tales one paper can tattle. Solution: Cholly walks the plank, Suzy gets full command of the society poop deck, and this week starts a combined column under the new nom de guerre of Suzy Knickerbocker...
JOHN KEATS by Aileen Ward. 450 pages. Viking...
Biographer Bate, Lowell Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, sometimes detours through academic bogs, especially when he is taking the reader by the hand through every well-known poem Keats ever wrote. Aileen Ward, who teaches at Sarah Lawrence, is briefer, less searching, more wrapped up in the psychology of such things as Keats's ambivalent feeling toward women-induced, Miss Ward feels, by his shock when his mother married again barely two months after the death of his father. On many insignificant details-such as whether Keats had syphilis when he wrote Endymion-the two biographers differ sharply...
...contrast to the accuracy and wisdom of Bate's book stands Aileen Ward's John Keats: The Making of a Poet. Miss Ward's book was published barely a week before Bate's and, surprisingly, neither author was aware of the other's project. Not so surprising actually, since one biography is a masterful, magnificent study, and the other is an over-written attempt at literary psychoanalysis...