Keats and Charles Brown’s Memoir: Was Keats’s Nightingale Really a Thrush?

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KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/09524142.2021.1911182

Judith Chernaik

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Charles Brown’s memoir of Keats, written long after his friend’s death, has attained mythic status. Key events have been reprinted verbatim in every biography since Milnes’s 1848 Life, Letters and Literary Remains and are still taken as gospel by readers and critics. Yet Brown’s famous account of the ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ is demonstrably fictional, in large part his own invention. Brown’s equally iconic account of Keats’s haemorrhage of February 1820 is also highly questionable, coloured by Brown’s need to place himself at the centre of the poet’s final months. If the biographies must now be rewritten, so be it.

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济慈与布朗回忆录:济慈笔下的夜莺真的是画眉吗?

查尔斯·布朗在他的朋友济慈去世很久之后写的关于济慈的回忆录已经获得了神话般的地位。自密尔内斯1848年出版《生平、书信和文学遗存》以来，每一部传记都逐字逐句地重印了一些重要事件，读者和评论家仍将其视为福音。然而，布朗著名的“夜莺颂”显然是虚构的，很大程度上是他自己的发明。布朗对济慈1820年2月大出血的同样具有标志性的描述也非常值得怀疑，因为布朗需要将自己置于诗人最后几个月的中心。如果传记现在必须重写，那就重写吧。

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