Lucasta Miller: 'Thou wast not born for death': Keats and the Living Art of Writing Literary Lives

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 5:30pm - 7pm
Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College

Join us for the first OCLW Evening Lecture of Michaelmas Term: Lucasta Miller on John Keats and life writing.

Lucasta Miller discusses her experiences as a life-writer in the light her of her most recent book, Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.

Lucasta Miller's first book, The Bronte Myth (2001), was an influential study in metabiography. It was reissued in 2020, with a new introduction. In the early 2000s, she focused on journalism, writing longford profiles for the Guardian. In 2019. she published L.E.L: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the 'Female Byron', which was shortlisted for the NBCC Awards in the USA.

Lucasta is interested in exploring new ways of writing literary biography. Her most recent book is Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph (2021). She is currently working on Coleridge and the Ancient Mariner: A Voyage into the Rime, which will be published by Bloomsbury in 2024.

Author photo (above) credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke.

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