The Challenge of Keats

The Challenge of Keats PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004333851
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Two centuries after his birth in October 1795, John Keats occupies a secure place in the canon of great literature of the western world. But for much of the nineteenth century and even during periods of the twentieth century, his right to such a position was not so firmly established. On the bicentenary of Keats's birth, various Italian scholars, along with specialists from English-speaking countries, decided to take advantage of the occasion not only to render homage to a poet whose greatness now seems unchallenged but also to accept his continuing challenge to his readers. The contributors to this volume re-examine some of the harshest criticisms of Keats, from Byron onwards, and some of the unconditional exaltations of the poet in order to discover possible sites between the two for new critical impulses and fertile re-evaluations of his achievement. Under five headings - Romantic Truth, Textual Readings, History and Myth, Keats and Other Poets and Painting and Music - the essays in this book appraise the historical-cultural contexts that nurtured Keats's creativity; discuss the influences and interrelationships among Keats and other poets; and consider Keats's artistry as revealed in the analyses of particular texts.

John Keats, 1795-1995

John Keats, 1795-1995 PDF Author: Houghton Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
A catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "John Keats and the Exaltation of a Genius" at Houghton Library in 1995 and of the John Keats Bicentennial Conference. The catalog includes a preface by Richard Wendorf and essays by Helen Vendler and William H. Bond.

The Poems of John Keats

The Poems of John Keats PDF Author: John Keats
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264047
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 554

Book Description
This collection comprises the works of John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and contemporary of Byron and Shelley. The collection includes "Endymion", "Lamia", "Isabella" and "Hyperion".

John Keats

John Keats PDF Author: John Keats
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141922680
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Keats is one of the major figures in the second generation of Romantic Poets and was considered by Tennyson to be the greatest poet of the nineteenth century. The preoccupying themes of Keats' poetry are love, art, sorrow, the natural world and thenature of the imagination. However, his poetry is often also indirectly critical of conventional political, religious, and sexual beliefs. This collection contains pieces from different periods in his short life, from his earliest verse to his later unpublished poems. It also includes his best-loved works, such as The Eve of St Agnes, Lamia, and the Odes, and extracts from Endymion.

John Keats and the Culture of Dissent

John Keats and the Culture of Dissent PDF Author: Nicholas Roe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198186298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
This book overturns received ideas about Keats as a poet of "beauty" and "sensuousness," highlighting the little studied political perspectives of his works. Roe sets out to recover the vivacious, pugnacious voices of Keats's poetry, and traces the complex ways in which his poems responded to and addressed their contemporary world. The book also offers new research about Keats's early life that opens valuable and often provocative new perspectives on his poetry.

The Poems of John Keats

The Poems of John Keats PDF Author: John Keats
Publisher: London : J.M. Dent ; New York : E.P. Dutton
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Reading The Eve of St.Agnes

Reading The Eve of St.Agnes PDF Author: Jack Stillinger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195351509
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
Using the 180-year history of Keats'sEve of St. Agnes as a basis for theorizing about the reading process, Stillinger's book explores the nature and whereabouts of "meaning" in complex works. A proponent of authorial intent, Stillinger argues a theoretical compromise between author and reader, applying a theory of interpretive democracy that includes the endlessly multifarious reader's response as well as Keats's guessed-at intent. Stillinger also considers the process of constructing meaning, and posits an answer to why Keats's work is considered canonical, and why it is still being read and admired.

Poems Published in 1820

Poems Published in 1820 PDF Author: John Keats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Selected Poems: Keats

Selected Poems: Keats PDF Author: John Keats
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141936916
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should ‘be among the English poets after my death’. This wide-ranging selection of Keats’s poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earliest known poem ‘Imitation of Spenser’; poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 - including ‘Lamia’, ‘Isabella’, ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Hyperion’ - and later celebrated works such as ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. Also included are many poems considered by Keats to be lesser work, but which illustrate his more earthy, playful side and superb ear for everyday language.

John Keats 1795-1821

John Keats 1795-1821 PDF Author: John Keats
Publisher: John Donald
ISBN: 9781904016106
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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