Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats

Informationen zum Autor Jack Siler Klappentext A major aim of this study is to make Peter Burger's way of thinking accessible in English by advancing the existing critical discourse that accompanies the poetry of Keats. Applying Burger's aesthetic categories in an interpretation of the poetry permits the claim that Keats is one poet who drives the unique role of poetry to the point of seeing it as an end in itself, but also came to understand the need to break down the distance between poetry and society, art and politics. Zusammenfassung In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal Annals of the Fine Arts , whilst the poems after Endymion reveal a poet more concerned with the nature of poetic representation--its why and wherefore. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Poetic Language and Political Engagement Chapter Two: The Early Poems and "Endymion" Chapter Three: The Odes Conclusion: "The Fall of Hyperion" Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Jack L. Siler, Jack L. (Michigan State University Siler, Siler Jack L.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2012
• EAN: 9780415543019
• ISBN: 978-0-415-54301-9
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory