Robert Gittings était un écrivain anglais dont l'œuvre s'est concentrée sur l'analyse littéraire et la biographie. Son écriture se caractérisait par une profondeur dans l'exploration des vies et des motivations des auteurs qu'il examinait. L'approche de Gittings révélait souvent les liens complexes entre les écrivains et leur époque. Ses contributions offrent aux lecteurs un aperçu du processus créatif et du contexte historique.
This edition, based on careful study of the manuscript sources, includes every poem, verse drama, and fragment known to have been written by Keats. A commentary by Buxton Forman on the early printed editions, a chronology of Keat's life, and a note on the wealth of manuscript material complete the authoritative text.
The books in this A Level poetry series contain a glossary and notes on each page. The approach encourages students to develop their own responses to the poems, and an A Level Chief Examiner offers exam tips. This text contains poems and letters by Keats in chronological order.
Robert Gitting's two-volume biography of Thomas Hardy has been acclaimed as one of the century's major works, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prize of the Royal Society of Literature. 'The Gittings life...works for our view of Hardy much the same miracle as a restorer who, by removing several layers of varnish and overpainting, reveals to the light of day an almost entirely new picture. Here at last is a portrait of Hardy which rings true, recognizably the author of some of the most melancholy stories and poems in the English language--the wretched, deeply insecure man who, for fifty years, after having been estranged from his rustic roots and his youthful faith, wandered through an inward world in an ever increasing confusions of bitterness and despair, seeking a security, an innocence and a sense of "wholeness" which would never come again' --Spectator