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Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography

Stanley Plumly

"Posthumous Keats" is the result of Plumly's 20 years of reflection on the enduring poetry of one of England's greatest Romanticists. Incisive in its observations and beautifully written, this work is an ode to the man who saw his mortality as fatal to his poetry.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographyPolitical Biography

Award History

0 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography2009FinalistSecondary source
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction2009FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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    • Keats60%

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    Keats’ mortality was fatal to his poetry, and the biography presents this as a governing idea for understanding his enduring work.

    Model confidence 50%

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.