Junkets on a Sad Planet Scenes from the Life of John Keats

The brief life of John Keats¿¿the suffering of the immortal artist who dies young, whose glory is written in the stars and yet whose entry in the Book of Life is "writ in water"¿¿is the stuff of Romantic myth. "Junkets on a Sad Planet," writes Tom Clark in his notes on this remarkably original book, "is an extended reflection on the fable of the modern poet's life as Keats lived it." Written in a series of blank-verse poems interspersed with fictional "letters" by Keats and by members of his circle, the book may be read in turns as a poetic novel, a biography in verse, an allegorical masque, and a historical oratorio for several voices. Anyone who loves Keats's poetry and letters will be stunned: "Clark captures the essence of the poet's style and spirit in a minimum of elegant and haunting words" (Los Angeles Times).Clark, Tom is the author of 'Junkets on a Sad Planet Scenes from the Life of John Keats' with ISBN 9780876859179 and ISBN 0876859171.