John Keats
GITTINGS, Robert
The Living Year. 21 September 1818 to 21 September 1819.
Published: Heinemann, [1954]
Stock code: 12018
Price: £54.00
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 10 plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip.
With a personal bookplate on front paste-down. First edition of the memorable literary study which made Gittings' name and inspired a generation of students and general readers. In an enthralling account of the single 365-day period in which Keats created the majority of his greatest work, Gittings combines biography, history, topography, detection and sheer perception to marvellous effect. An undisputed classic of mid-twentieth century literary criticism. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION