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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... literary figures . More specifically , the essays in section III largely focus on perceptions of Keats's biography and his poetry as they relate to ongoing Romantic myths . Timothy Corrigan believes that in the period between 1818 and ...
... literary figures . More specifically , the essays in section III largely focus on perceptions of Keats's biography and his poetry as they relate to ongoing Romantic myths . Timothy Corrigan believes that in the period between 1818 and ...
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... literary sources from the past , Dante and Milton , it goes on to discuss Keats's relations with his contemporaries , especially Leigh Hunt and P.B. Shelley , and concludes by considering Keats's influence on the poets of the late ...
... literary sources from the past , Dante and Milton , it goes on to discuss Keats's relations with his contemporaries , especially Leigh Hunt and P.B. Shelley , and concludes by considering Keats's influence on the poets of the late ...
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... literary criticism as it should be written personal , professedly idiosyncratic , and with a wonderful stylistic range . It is a polemic for Enlightenment improvements to Christianity - a proper use of reason , which does all that ...
... literary criticism as it should be written personal , professedly idiosyncratic , and with a wonderful stylistic range . It is a polemic for Enlightenment improvements to Christianity - a proper use of reason , which does all that ...
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... literary and cultural power vacuum created by that death . Heine's aim was not to offer a dispassionate characterization of German Romanticism : it was , by taking a certain view of German Romantic writing - even , one might say , by ...
... literary and cultural power vacuum created by that death . Heine's aim was not to offer a dispassionate characterization of German Romanticism : it was , by taking a certain view of German Romantic writing - even , one might say , by ...
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... Literary Remains of John Keats in 1848. A version differing in many ways was published in Leigh Hunt's journal The ... Literary Criticism " , The Beauty of Inflections : Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory , Oxford ...
... Literary Remains of John Keats in 1848. A version differing in many ways was published in Leigh Hunt's journal The ... Literary Criticism " , The Beauty of Inflections : Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory , Oxford ...
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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