George Keats of Kentucky: A Life
George Keats of Kentucky: A Life
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Abstract
This is a biography of George Keats, brother of the poet John Keats and a community leader in Louisville. The book examines how the boys’ troubled childhood in London, orphaned at early ages, linked them unusually closely, but also drove each to considerable accomplishment. The book provides the first in-depth analysis of George, heretofore a peripheral player in John Keats biographies. It rounds out a series of prior biographies on Fanny Keats, Fanny Brawne, Joseph Severn, James Leigh Hunt, Charles Brown, and other important influences on the poet's life. It also provides a new and detailed portrait of life in mercantile Louisville from 1818–1841, with a rich appendix describing George's friends, the community's leaders. The work includes nearly 100 images, most in color, from the period. A central theme is whether George Keats did as much for his brother, both in terms of financial support and in creating a legacy, as he might have. Another has to do with his influence on John's poetry. Fresh research describes his problematic relationship with the naturalist John J. Audubon. The Keats family finances are described with clarity.
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Front Matter
- The Pivotal Year 1827–1828
- Abandoned 1804 –1814
- Family Origins 1773–1804
- Clarke's Schoolboys 1803–1810
- Youths About London 1811–1818
- Separation And Emigration 1818
- Henderson And Audubon 1818–1819
- Louisville 1819
- A Dismal Return 1820
- Getting Established 1820–1826
- Who Failed The Poet? 1820–1821
- Settling Affairs 1821–1828
- The Legacy Deferred 1821–1848
- Prosperity 1828–1841
- Ruin and Death 1841
- Aftermath 1842–
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