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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...
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...
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...
With such a setting and such characters Denning has brought back a highly successful formula. Properly, he never lets up for a moment. Let me cite a few chapter headings to make my point: "Stephen Ward Helping the Russians." "The Slashing and Shooting: 1) The Slashing, 2) The Shooting," "The Disappearance of Christine Keeler," "The Solicitor Is Afraid She Has Been Sprited From the Country," and "Was there A Conspiracy?" This, I submit, makes for excitement of the highest order...