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John Keats : Reimagining History /

This book considers Keats s major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism. The poetry s rich allusiveness represents Keats s effort to reclaim the British canon for Cockney revisionism, and reveals Keats characteristically invoking the past to define his contemporary cultural politics. The book b...

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Main Authors: Ulmer, William A. (Author)
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literature.
Literature, Modern > 18th century.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47084-9
Summary: This book considers Keats s major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism. The poetry s rich allusiveness represents Keats s effort to reclaim the British canon for Cockney revisionism, and reveals Keats characteristically invoking the past to define his contemporary cultural politics. The book begins by discussing Keats s Cockney traditionalism in its Regency context and then proceeds through the poet s career in chronological order. There are chapters on history and vocation in the poet s first volume, the failed idealism of 'Endymion', gender and audience in the Medieval Romances, the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' in historical context, secularism and consolation in the other great Odes, and then the two 'Hyperion' fragments, in which history ramifies beyond poetic method to become the explicit subject of inquiry. The result is a stimulating reassessment of Keats s intellectual development and most admired poems. .
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XIV,220pages)
ISBN: 9783319470849
Index Number: PN760
CLC: I561.072
Contents: Preface -- 1. Keats and Romantic Historicism -- 2. History and Vocation in Poems (1817) -- 3. The Idealism of Endymion -- 4. Keats s Medieval Romances -- 5. Beauty and Truth in Regency Britain -- 6. Secularism and Consolation in Three Odes -- 7. High Tragedy in the Hyperion Project -- Bibliography -- .

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