In Keats country
In Keats country
‘Keats Country’ is the last major poem by the twentieth-century master, F.T. Prince (1912 – 2003). A profound meditation on the significance of Keats’ life, and of poetry within a cynical culture, the poem evolves from an evocation of “the hacked and butchered Twyford Down” into an intense exploration of how Keats’ tuberculosis and his love for Fanny Brawne shaped the energies of his work. Here, Prince opens up wider considerations of what it is to be a creative artist. This concern is also evident in Memoirs of Caravaggio, his earlier “psychologized portrait poem” (Peter Robinson) released, simultaneously, through Perdika. The publication of a Prince poem as richly archetypal as ‘Keats Country’ is an event of real literary importance. In Keats Country also offers a selection of Prince’s earliest poetry, drawn from the Prince archive at Southampton University by Dr Will May, as well as the intriguing poem which contributed to Prince’s crucial break with T.S. Eliot and Faber.
1905649207
Prince, F.T.
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May, William
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1 April 2015
Prince, F.T.
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May, William
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Prince, F.T.
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May, William
(ed.)
(2015)
In Keats country
,
London, GB.
Perdika Press
Abstract
‘Keats Country’ is the last major poem by the twentieth-century master, F.T. Prince (1912 – 2003). A profound meditation on the significance of Keats’ life, and of poetry within a cynical culture, the poem evolves from an evocation of “the hacked and butchered Twyford Down” into an intense exploration of how Keats’ tuberculosis and his love for Fanny Brawne shaped the energies of his work. Here, Prince opens up wider considerations of what it is to be a creative artist. This concern is also evident in Memoirs of Caravaggio, his earlier “psychologized portrait poem” (Peter Robinson) released, simultaneously, through Perdika. The publication of a Prince poem as richly archetypal as ‘Keats Country’ is an event of real literary importance. In Keats Country also offers a selection of Prince’s earliest poetry, drawn from the Prince archive at Southampton University by Dr Will May, as well as the intriguing poem which contributed to Prince’s crucial break with T.S. Eliot and Faber.
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Published date: 1 April 2015
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ISBN: 1905649207
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