{"product_id":"9780008424992","title":"Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eA dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \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\u003cp\u003eBate's comparative study of these two figures is a top pick for lovers of historical and literary works. His deep understanding of English literature and criticism shines through in this compelling autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Judi Dench (Shakespeare), Maggie O'Farrell (I Am, I Am, I Am), Mary Berry (Recipe for Life), Sylvia Plath (Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy), and Andrea Wulf (Magnificent Rebels).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Bate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889169551509,"sku":"9780008424992","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008424992_82fa274d-6710-4ad2-8766-25dfa48b9c73.jpg?v=1776888280","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008424992","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}