{"product_id":"9780008424985","title":"Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e‘Highly engaging … Go now, read this book’ \u003cem\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘For awhile after you quit Keats,’ Fitzgerald once wrote, ‘All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Keats died two hundred years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began one hundred years ago, the Jazz Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan Bate recreates these two shining, tragic lives in parallel. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling \u003cem\u003eTender is the Night\u003c\/em\u003e and other works from the poet’s lines, but the two lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuminous and vital, this biography goes through the looking glass to meet afresh two of the greatest and best-known Romantic writers in their twinned centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Bate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285359018133,"sku":"9780008424985","price":8.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008424985","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}