By Sir Andrew Motion
Keats is the 1st significant biography of this tragic hero of romanticism for a few thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in vital respects. the description of the tale is widely known - has turn into, actually, the stuff of legend: the archetypal lifetime of the tortured genius, severely spurned and demise young.
What Andrew movement brings to endure at the topic is a deep knowing of the way Keats outfitted into the highbrow and political lifetime of his time. very important friendships with such anti-establishment figures as William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt are given their complete due, and the closeness of his personal spirit, as expressed in his poems, to the ferment throughout is made transparent. Many major new evidence approximately Keats's schooldays and scientific education, particularly, enhance the image. Keats emerges as a extra political determine than he's often portrayed, yet his own sufferings, too, come into nearer concentration. most significantly, Andrew movement - himself a unique poet and previous poet laureate - demonstrates how the poems proceed to exert their strength.
'A definitive lifetime of an exceptional poet, and one of many best biographies of the decade.' New Statesman
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We even went to church camps. I believe Mom was a devout Christian. She and I went every Monday night to Bible study with a converted Jew who had gone blind studying the Bible. His own family had his funeral when he converted. His name was Brother Joseph, and his Bible study was so in-depth I was mesmerized. This man loved the Lord! His love was so beautiful, and his spiritual knowledge was so awesome. I saved my money one summer and bought him the New Testament on records. I was given a great understanding for someone so young.
They didn’t take into consideration that he was also short — less than six feet tall. Someone six foot three, like me, with a much bigger bone structure and frame, shouldn’t be starved down to that size and still be expected to perform at full strength, but that was ou’s philosophical mind-set then. This is the same system that had produced Jim Weatherall, an All-American tackle and pro football defensive tackle who weighed over 270, yet somehow, with the influence of people like Roberts, they had bought into a “small and quick” concept and tried making all of us fit their concept instead of taking full advantage of our individual skills, including strength and size.
If I came back still in a bad mood, I had to run it again. Some days Mom would take me to school on her way to work, but mostly I walked or rode my bicycle through my grade school and even junior high days. In high school, riding a bicycle to school wasn’t cool, so I walked. This was another example of the insecurity that exists when we gain our self-esteem from our peers instead of from our Lord. Sometimes my mother took me to school when I was in high school. We would pull up to the front entrance, where all “the boys” — the top athletes and school leaders — would congregate.