John Keats in Context

Klappentext Covering a range of topics - biographical! social! literary! and intellectual - and addressing both the sources of his work and how he influenced later writers! this exploration of the world of John Keats (1795-1821) enriches our understanding of one of Britain's greatest poets and letter writers. Zusammenfassung Covering a range of topics - biographical! social! literary! and intellectual - and addressing both the sources of his work and how he influenced later writers! this exploration of the world of John Keats (1795-1821) enriches our understanding of one of Britain's greatest poets and letter writers.

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A wide-ranging exploration of the influence of Keats' world on his life and work, enhancing our engagement with his poems.

Zusammenfassung
Covering a range of topics - biographical, social, literary, and intellectual - and addressing both the sources of his work and how he influenced later writers, this exploration of the world of John Keats (1795-1821) enriches our understanding of one of Britain's greatest poets and letter writers.

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Part I. Life, Letters, Texts: 1. Biographies and film Sarah Wootton; 2. Formative years and medical training Nicholas Roe and Hrileena Ghosh; 3. Surgery, science and suffering Nicholas Roe; 4. Fanny Brawne and other women Heidi Thomson; 5. Mortality Shahidha Bari; 6. Travel Jeffrey C. Robinson; 7. Letters Madeleine Callaghan; 8. Manuscripts and publishing history John Barnard; Part II. Cultural Contexts: 9. The Hunt circle and the Cockney School Gregory Leadbetter; 10. London Timothy Webb; 11. Politics Richard Cronin; 12. Sociability Grant F. Scott; 13. The visual and plastic arts Nancy Moore Goslee; 14. Religion and myth Anthony John Harding; Part III. Ideas and Poetics: 15. The Enlightenment and history Porscha Fermanis; 16. Keats and Hazlitt Duncan Wu; 17. Imagination, beauty and truth Charles W. Mahoney; 18. The poetical character Seamus Perry; 19. The senses and sensation Stacey McDowell; 20. Prosody and versification in the Odes Michael O'Neill; Part IV. Poetic Contexts: 21. Poetic precursors (1): Dante and Shakespeare Chris Murray; 22. Poetic precursors (2): Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope Beth Lau; 23. Contemporaries (1) (and immediate predecessors): Tighe, Radcliffe, Southey, Burns, Chatterton, Hunt, Wordsworth Michael O'Neill; 24. Contemporaries (2): Coleridge, Byron, Shelley Jane Stabler; 25. Ballad, romance and narrative Andrew Bennett; 26. Epic and tragedy Susan J. Wolfson; 27. Lyrical genres Christopher R. Miller; Part V. Influence: 28. Tennyson to Wilde Herbert F. Tucker; 29. Hardy, Edward Thomas, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney Michael O'Neill; 30. American writing Mark Sandy; Part VI. Critical Reception: 31. Contemporary reviews Kelvin Everest; 32 Critical reception, 182100 Francis O'Gorman; 33. Keats criticism, 1900 Matthew Scott; 34. Keats criticism, post-1963 Richard Marggraf Turley.