John Keats, 1795-1995: With a Catalogue of the Harvard Keats Collection

by Harvard University Houghton Library, Richard Wendorf (Preface by), Helen Vendler (Contribution by), William H. Bond (Contribution by)

Overview

A catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition “John Keats and the Exaltation of a Genius” at Houghton Library in 1995 and of the John Keats Bicentennial Conference. The catalog includes a preface by Richard Wendorf and essays by Helen Vendler and William H. Bond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780914630173
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	05/31/2005
Series:	Houghton Library Publications , #24
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.50(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Richard Wendorf is Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum. Among his other books in eighteenth-century studies is The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England.

Helen Vendler (1933–2024) was a leading poetry critic and the author of nineteen books on poets from William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, she contributed regularly to the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, and the New Republic. She was the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

William H. Bond was Librarian of Houghton Library, Emeritus, Harvard University.