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1 online resource (432 pages) |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Plates; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 A Hazardous Childhood; 2 The Royal Academy Student; 3 Painter and Poet; 4 The Warm South; 5 Piazza di Spagna; 6 'Thanks Joe'; 7 'The Most Striking Year of My Life'; 8 The RA Pensioner; 9 'Searching for Fame and Fortune'; 10 Love, Marriage, and Persecution; 11 'Everybody's Man and a Very Obliging Creature': Severn in his Roman Prime; 12 Going Home; 13 The Passion for Fresco; 14 The Friend of Keats; 15 An Interlude in Pimlico; 16 British Consul; 17 The New Rome; 18 Keeper of the Flame; Epilogue: A Fitting Place |
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NotesSelect Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This biography of Joseph Severn (1793-1879), the best known but most controversial of Keats's friends, is based on a mass of newly discovered information, much of it still in private hands. Severn accompanied the dying Keats to Italy, nursed him in Rome and reported on his last weeks there in a famous series of moving letters. After Keats's death in relative obscurity, Severn pressed hard for an early biography and a more fitting memorial in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. In the nineteenth century Severn's friendship with Keats was seen as a model of devoted masculine companionship and he was |
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Print version record |
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Severn, Joseph, 1793-1879 -- Friends and associates
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Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Friends and associates
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Keats, John, 1795-1821 fast |
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Severn, Joseph, 1793-1879 fast |
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Painters -- Great Britain -- Biography
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ART -- History -- General.
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Friendship
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Painters
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191571848 |
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0191571849 |
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