Joseph Severn, A Life: The Rewards of Friendship
"Crisply written and clear-sighted biography...in Sue Brown's hands [Joseph Severn] becomes a cockney chancer, a charming maverick, a spinner of yarns whose name will never be writ in water." --Times Literary Supplement"Sue Brown's lively new biography of Severn will be an invaluable contribution to Romantic scholarship." --The Keats- Shelley Journal"A balance portrait of Severn...This accessible book will interest Keats fans and scholars, and it will also attract readers interested in 19th-century British communities in Italy or in the sometimes-nasty British artistic community...Recommended." --Choice"This rich biography is a major contribution to the icreasing body of good work on members of Keat's circle." --Jack Stillinger, University of Illinois