John Keats

Zusammenfassung This book offers a revaluation of Keat's major poetry. It reveals how Keat's work is both an oblique criticism of the dominant attitudes to literature! sexuality! religion! and politics in his period! and a powerful critique of the claims of the imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. An early nineteenth-century poet; 2. 'Energy and Voluptuousness': Poems (1817); 3. Endymion: 'Pretty Paganism' and 'Purgatory Blind'; 4. Hyperion: 'Colossal Grandeur'; 5. Four 'medieval' love stories; 6. The spring odes, 1819; 7. Final poems; Appendix: the poems to Fanny Brawne; Notes; Select reading; Index of persons and Keats' poems.

Product details

• Authors: John Barnard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.1987
• EAN: 9780521318068
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31806-8
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: British and Irish Authors
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies