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Situates the lives and work of the poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley within the literary, cultural, political, and social currents of their time.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction: On Shelley and Keats
- 2: Why Read Keats?
- 3: Keats Amid the Alien Corn
- 4: Isabella in the Market-Place: Keats and Feminism
- 5: Keats's Formal Legacy and the Victorians
- 6: Keats Meets Coleridge
- 7: Shelley's Adonais and John Keats
- 8: Shelley and the Heart's Echoes
- 9: Shelley and his Contemporaries
- 10: Shelley's Doubles: An Approach to Julian and Maddalo
- 11: 'Mechanism of a kind yet unattempted': The Dramatic Action of Prometheus Unbound
- 12: 'Ozymandias': The Text in Time
- 13: 'Newly Unfrozen Senses and Imagination': Shelley's Translation of the Symposium and his Development as a Writer in Italy
- Bibliography
About the author
Kelvin Everest taught English Literature at St David's University College Lampeter and Leicester University, and since 1991 he has been A.C. Bradley Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool, where he also served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for 15 years. Professor Everest has held visiting positions at St John's College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge and he has published widely on the English Romantic poets, in books, edited collections, and journals. Since the early 1980s, he has been editing the Complete Poems of Shelley for the Longman Annotated English Poets series, published in five volumes.
Summary
Situates the lives and work of the poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley within the literary, cultural, political, and social currents of their time.
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It is a mark of his distinction and originality as a scholar that something that might seem as hoary as Shelleys Platonism should get such an invigorating new breath of life, the culmination of this consistently pleasurable and illuminating book.
