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John Keats
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
John Keats
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) John Barnard
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Series | British and Irish Authors |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:188 | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140 |
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Category/Genre | Literary studies - c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies - poetry and poets |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521318068
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Classifications | Dewey:821.7 |
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Audience | Tertiary Education (US: College) | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
12 March 1987 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This book offers a revaluation of Keats' major poetry. It reveals how Keats' 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. For all that he shares the optimistic humanism of progressives like Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, and Shelley, Keats nevertheless questions the sufficiency of either Art or Beauty. Professor Barnard shows how the notorious attack on Keats as a Cockney poet was motivated by class and political bias. He analyses the problems facing Keats as a second-generation Romantic, his continuing difficulty in finding an appropriate style for 'Poesy', and his uncertain judgement of his own work. The ambiguities and stresses evident in the poetry's treatment of women and sexual love are seen to reflect divisions in Keats and his society. The maturing use of myth from Poems (1817) to The Fall of Hyperion, and the achievement of the major odes are set in relation to Keats' whole career.
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