Walking North with Keats

Carol Kyros Walker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7863-2 (ISBN)

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In the summer of 1818, John Keats and his friend, Charles Brown, headed north to Scotland on a walking tour to visit Burns country and the rugged, Romantic landscape beyond. They planned a route that would first take them through Northern England, the Lake District and Wordsworth country. Their goal was to reach John o’Groats and return by way of Perthshire. This journey came at a time when Keats rejected a career of medicine, having practiced as a surgeon at Guys Hospital, and resolved to devote himself solely to writing poetry. The journey was to be a "Prologue" to his reimagined life.
Keats’s letters offer an affecting narrative thread of his relations to his siblings—George, who was emigrating to America with his new bride; Fanny, the youngest, who was in the care of an unfriendly guardian; and most of all Tom, alone in Hampstead, dying of consumption. Keats never made it to John o’Groats. The serious sore throat contracted on the Isle of Mull forced him to return to London where his first task on return was tending to Tom.
Capturing the landscapes, landmarks, poetry and letters of Keats’s epic walk, Carol Kyros Walker retraced Keats's footsteps originally in 1978-1979 and again in the autumns of 2015 and 2016 allowing readers to ‘walk’ alongside him. This updated edition documents photographically both the original and the later journeys, reassessing the cultural picture of Scotland, and providing an intimate glimpse into Keats’s life, friendship and family ties.

Carol Kyros Walker is Professor Emerita, City Colleges of Chicago. She is the author of Walking North with Keats (Yale UP, 1992), Dorothy Wordsworth’s Recollections of a Tour in Scotland (Yale UP, 1997), Breaking Away: Coleridge in Scotland (Yale UP, 2002). She is also a professional photographer.

Preface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction

Map: Route of Keats’s WalkThe ItineraryA Photographic Retracing of the Walking Tour

The Travel LiteratureLetter 1: To Tom KeatsLetter 2: To George and Georgiana KeatsLetter 3: To Tom KeatsLetter 4: To Fanny KeatsLetter 5: To Tom KeatsLetter 6: To John Hamilton ReynoldsLetter 7: To Tom KeatsLetter 8: To Tom KeatsLetter 9: To Benjamin BaileyLetter 10: To Tom KeatsLetter 11: To Tom KeatsLetter 12: To Mrs. James WylieLetter 13: Charles Brown to C. W. Dilke, Sr.Letter 14: Charles Brown to Henry Snook“This Mortal Body of a Thousand Days”“On Some Skulls in Beauley Abbey, near Inverness”Charles Brown’s Walks in the North

Select BibliographyIndex of Names and Places

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	50 black and white illustrations, 100 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	267 x 210 mm
Gewicht	1108 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	1-4744-7863-8 / 1474478638
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-7863-2 / 9781474478632
Zustand	Neuware