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 First edition | |
| Author | Aileen Ward |
|---|---|
| Published | Secker & Warburg (1963) |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 488 |
| Awards | National Book Award for Arts and Letters (1964), Duff Cooper Prize (1963) |
| ISBN | 0374520291 |
John Keats: The Making of a Poet is a biography about the poet written by Aileen Ward. After nine years of research,[1] the work was initially published in 1963 by Viking (New York) and Secker & Warburg (London). Revised editions were published in 1986 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York) and Faber & Faber (London).[2]
John Keats: The Making of a Poet was the first major account of the poet's life since the two-volume work, Keats, was written by Amy Lowell in 1925. Ward received a National Book Award for Arts and Letters for the work in 1964.[3]
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- ^ Grimes, William (2016-06-08). "Aileen Ward, Author of Award-Winning Keats Biography, Dies at 97". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-06.