The latter was profoundly influenced by Keats, using the poet's lines in the title Tender is the Night. In Bright Star, Green Light, Jonathan Bate interweaves the lives of John Keats and F. A freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, his work has retained its originality through the generations.

A lower-middle-class outsider from a dysfunctional family, his energy and love of language enabled him to reach the heart of English literature. He took a battering from the conservative press, yet in 1818 he wrote, 'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death'. The epitaph Keats composed for his own gravestone – Here lies one whose name was writ in water – seemingly damned him to oblivion. Whether you believe the Brontes were forerunners in the feminist movement or paragons of womanly virtue and chastity, you must give this succinct and fascinating book a chance.John Keats, who died 200 years ago at just 25, is one of Britain’s most enigmatic poets and this biography by Lucasta Miller, critic and author of The Brontë Myth, excavates the backstories of nine familiar works. Miller seeks to document the rise and fall of the various ways in which the Bronte sisters have been extolled for their virtue and condemned for their base morals at different times in history. Starting with the first biography of the Bronte family written by Elizabeth Gaskell shortly after Charlotte's death, the Bronteâ?s literary legacy was relatively ignored and instead a cult of personality was built around the Bronte sisters themselves. Yet it is precisely this focus on the person behind the literature and not the literature itself that Miller attacks. Little did the public know that the authors that they so attacked were in fact the daughters of a parish priest. Emily Bronte), the public immediately began to attack what was then deemed as the perverse and disturbed literature of seemingly corrupt and morally bankrupt minds. Charlotte Bronte), and the debut of Wuthering Heights written by Ellis Bell (A.K.A. Sparked by the release of Jane Eyre written under the pseudonym Currer Bell (A.K.A.

Miller chronicles the lives of the Bronte sisters, mainly focusing on the life of the elder sister, Charlotte. Miller mixes biography, literary criticism, and history in order to 'de-mythify' the lives and literature of these fascinating women. For anyone who has ever been intrigued by the mystery and 'moor-based- myth' that surround the Bronte sisters, then you must read this book.

The Brontë Myth by Lucasta Miller