Download or read book The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman written by Flann O'Brien and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First appearing as columns in The Irish Times, the hilarious escapades of Keats and Chapman (based on the Romantic poet and the translator of Homer, respectively) that comprise this volume illuminate the extraordinary talent of Flann O'Brien. Labeled by the author "studies in literary pathology" the vignettes - each concluding in a terrible, bathetic pun - are the work of an extraordinarily funny mind exploring the limits of the shaggy dog story. -- Book jacket.