Studies in Keats: new & old

MURRY (John Middleton)

Published by London [&c]: Oxford University Press, 1939

About this Item

Dustwrapper darkened at spine, free endpapers partially embrowned. Second edition (the first was published in 1930), with the ownership inscription of William Soutar, 8 March 1939. Soutar, a contributor to Murry's Adelphi, was a Murry enthusiast. "Finished reading Murry's Keats and Shakespeare [1925] again," he wrote in his diary, 27 March 1938. "This work to me was, and still is, a critical masterpiece: I can think of no other study - of this nature - carried through so consistently and with so keen an awareness: it is a classic of imaginative sensitivity. Murry's is the one contemporary mind - apart from D.H. Lawrence's whose 'identity' (to apply Keats' own terminology) has 'pressed itself' upon me." Like Keats, Soutar suffered from tuberculosis; Keats died in 1821 aged 25, Soutar in 1943, aged 45.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Studies in Keats: new & old
• Publisher: London [&c]: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included