John Keats and the Culture of Dissent

Zusatztext a substantial contribution to the on-going debate about Keats's politics ... Roe's volume convinces one of Keats's secure place in a version of the romantic canon that narrates the complex formation of liberalism. The major scholarly contribution of the book involves the presentation of the world of the Enfield School and the influence of Charles Cowden Clarke on Keats's formation ... Roe is an impressive literary historian ... Roe's contributions to literary history are unmistakable ... I greatly admire Roe's accomplishment in this volume ... He has given us new information about Keats's world and about the overlapping circles of metropolitan sociability in the romantic period. He has shown, by following through the daily to-ings and fro-ings of the chief actors, how permeable were the boundaries between medicine, poetics and politics. Klappentext This book overturns received ideas about Keats as a poet of `beauty' and `sensuousness', highlighting the little studied political perspectives of his works. It recovers the vigorous, pugnacious voices of Keats's poetry, and shows why the poems outraged his early readers. The book gives new information about Keats's life, provocative readings of his poems, and ensures that Keats will hitherto be regarded as the most radical and disturbing of the English Romanticpoets. Zusammenfassung This text overturns received ideas about Keats as a poet of "beauty" and "sensuousness". It recovers the vigorous, pugnacious voices of Keats's poetry, and shows why the poems outraged his early readers. New information about Keats's life is provided along with provocative readings of his poems.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Roe, Nicholas (Professor of English Literature Roe, Roe Nicholas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1997
• EAN: 9780198183969
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818396-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, British Isles, Literary studies: poetry and poets