Bright star, green light : the beautiful works and damned lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald / Jonathan Bate.

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021

©2021

xiv, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"First published in 2021 in the United States by Yale University Press and in Great Britain by William Collins"--Title page verso.

"In this radiant dual biography, Jonathan Bate explores the fascinating parallel lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, writers who worked separately--on different continents, a century apart, in distinct genres--but whose lives uncannily echoed. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet's lines, but the two shared similar fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation, and decadence. Both were outsiders and Romantics, longing for the past as they sped blazingly into the future. Using Plutarch's ancient model of "parallel lives," Jonathan Bate recasts the inspired lives of two of the greatest and best known Romantic writers. Commemorating both the bicentenary of Keats' death and the centenary of the Roaring Twenties, this is a moving exploration of literary influence."--Publisher's description.

Online version: Bate, Jonathan. Bright star, green light. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021

English

November 15, 2021

Includes bibliographical references and index.