John Keats (1795–1821) continues to delight and challenge readers both within and beyond the academic community through his poems and letters. This volume provides frameworks for enhanced analysis and appreciation of Keats and his work, with each chapter supplying a succinct, informed, and accessible account of a particular topic. Leading scholars examine the life and work of Keats against the backdrop of his influences, contemporaries, and reception, and explore the interaction of poet and world. The essays consider his enduring but ever-altering appeal, engage with critical discussion and debate, and offer revisionary close reading of the poems and letters. Students and specialists will find their knowledge of Keats's life and work enriched by chapters that survey subjects ranging from education, relationships, and religion to art, genre, and film.
Author(s): Michael O'Neill
Series: Literature in Context
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 375
City: Cambridge
frontmatter
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on Texts, Citations, and Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Biographies and Film
2 Formative Years and Medical Training
3 Surgery, Science and Sufering
4 Fanny Brawne and Other Women
5 Mortality
6 Travel
7 Letters
8 Manuscripts and Publishing History
9 he Hunt Circle and the Cockney School
10 London
11 Politics
12 Sociability
13 The Visual and Plastic Arts
14 Religion and Myth
15 the Enlightenment and History
16 Keats and Hazlitt
17 Imagination, Beauty and Truth
18 The Poetical Character
19 The Senses and Sensation
20 Prosody and Versiication in the Odes
21 Poetic Precursors (1): Dante and Shakespeare
22 Poetic Precursors (2): Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope
23 Contemporaries (1) (and Immediate Predecessors)
24 Contemporaries (2): Coleridge, Byron, Shelley
25 Ballad, Romance and Narrative
26 Epic and Tragedy
27 Lyrical Genres
28 Tennyson to Wilde
29 Hardy, Edward homas, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney
30 American Writing
31 Contemporary Reviews
32 Critical Reception, 1821–1900
33 Keats Criticism, 1900–1963
34 Keats Criticism, Post-1963
Further Reading
Index
