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From: New Criterion
Date: 19980501
Author:Ormsby, Eric

Andrew Motion Keats. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 655 pages, $35 reviewed by Eric Ormsby

The life mask of John Keats, taken by his friend Benjamin Robert Haydon in December of 1816, when the twenty-year-old poet had only five years to live, reveals a face which even in forced repose seems suffused with sentience. The eyes, whose exact color none of his friends could later remember but whose flashing vivacity none of them ever forgot, are pressed shut while the surface of the skin over the taut rondure of the cheeks and the strangely emphatic mouth appears to breathe life in ...

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