The Challenge of Keats: Bicentenary Essays 1795-1995Allan C. Christensen Two centuries after his birth in October 1795, John Keats occupies a secure place in the canon of great literature of the western world. But for much of the nineteenth century and even during periods of the twentieth century, his right to such a position was not so firmly established. On the bicentenary of Keats's birth, various Italian scholars, along with specialists from English-speaking countries, decided to take advantage of the occasion not only to render homage to a poet whose greatness now seems unchallenged but also to accept his continuing challenge to his readers. The contributors to this volume re-examine some of the harshest criticisms of Keats, from Byron onwards, and some of the unconditional exaltations of the poet in order to discover possible sites between the two for new critical impulses and fertile re-evaluations of his achievement. Under five headings - Romantic Truth, Textual Readings, History and Myth, Keats and Other Poets and Painting and Music - the essays in this book appraise the historical-cultural contexts that nurtured Keats's creativity; discuss the influences and interrelationships among Keats and other poets; and consider Keats's artistry as revealed in the analyses of particular texts. |
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... fact , as written records . Second , not to take the Romantics on their own terms was , for aesthetic , political and religious reasons , one of the main critical projects of Modernism , and ( albeit not in precisely the ways McGann ...
... fact , as written records . Second , not to take the Romantics on their own terms was , for aesthetic , political and religious reasons , one of the main critical projects of Modernism , and ( albeit not in precisely the ways McGann ...
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... fact the whole claim about detachment is itself ideological . You can argue with at least as much validity the opposite view : only a criticism which - without abolishing historical difference , or indeed any aspect of the otherness of ...
... fact the whole claim about detachment is itself ideological . You can argue with at least as much validity the opposite view : only a criticism which - without abolishing historical difference , or indeed any aspect of the otherness of ...
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... fact it is a view from a materialist , secularist ideology , an ideology which has a general tenor that many of the Romantic writers themselves , for reasons which are permanently valid , wished to reject . I want now to examine what ...
... fact it is a view from a materialist , secularist ideology , an ideology which has a general tenor that many of the Romantic writers themselves , for reasons which are permanently valid , wished to reject . I want now to examine what ...
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... fact 5 and 6 ] , and several changes in verse 7. Great was his indignation . He swiftly altered the words and then read the poem to me , remarking that it was the germ from which all the poetry of his group had sprung.9 The whole ...
... fact 5 and 6 ] , and several changes in verse 7. Great was his indignation . He swiftly altered the words and then read the poem to me , remarking that it was the germ from which all the poetry of his group had sprung.9 The whole ...
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... facts . " Whirlwind " is from an authorial manuscript ; " world - wind " is from a printed copy . There is a second authorial manuscript , in the copy of Cary's Dante which Keats gave to Fanny Brawne , and there are four transcripts ...
... facts . " Whirlwind " is from an authorial manuscript ; " world - wind " is from a printed copy . There is a second authorial manuscript , in the copy of Cary's Dante which Keats gave to Fanny Brawne , and there are four transcripts ...
Contents
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DENNIS HASKELL | 27 |
MORAG HARRIS | 41 |
NICHOLAS | 61 |
VANNA GENTILI | 79 |
CHRISTENSEN | 179 |
VALENTINA POGGI | 186 |
ROBINSON | 195 |
PETER VASSALLO | 209 |
LILLA MARIA CRISAFULLI JONES | 219 |
MARIAGRAZIA BELLORINI | 237 |
ALEX R FALZON | 249 |
ENRICO REGGIANI | 257 |
JOHNSON | 95 |
ANNA MARIA PIGLIONICA | 113 |
MICHAEL ONEILL | 125 |
LUISA CONTI CAMAIORA | 161 |
Prohibition of Desire | 277 |
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 303 |
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