The Challenge of Keats

Bicentenary Essays (1795-1995)
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-420-0509-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Christensen, Allan Conrad

Crisafulli, Lilla Maria

Galigani, Giuseppe

Johnson, Anthony L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
I ROMANTIC TRUTH
David FULLER: Keats and Anti-Romantic Ideology
Dennis HASKELL: Keats and the Notion of Truth
Morag HARRIS: Perfect Forms or Beautifully-Formed Imperfections Keats and the Problem of Knowing Truth by the Clear Perception of its Beauty
II TEXTUAL READINGS
Nicholas ROE: John Keats's Green World: Politics, Nature and the Poems
Vanna GENTILI: Let Us Inspect the Lyre: Keats's Work in the Sonnet Form
Anthony L. JOHNSON: Formal Messages in Keats's Sonnets
Anna Maria PIGLIONICA: The Organicist Paradigm of Becoming in One of Keats's Sonnets
Michael O'NEILL: Lamia: Things Real - Things Semireal - and No Things
III MYTH AND HISTORY
Timothy CORRIGAN: Keats, Hazlitt and Public Character
Luisa CONTI CAMAIORA: Keats in John Clare's Letters
Allan C. CHRISTENSEN: Releasing Keats from the Trap of Kundera
Valentina POGGI: John Keats in the Orkneys
Jeffrey C. ROBINSON: Tom Clark's Junkets on a Sad Planet: The Question of Poetic, Rather than Biographical, Knowledge in Keats
IV KEATS AND OTHER POETS
Peter VASSALLO: Keats's Dying into Life: The Fall of Hyperion and Dante's Purgatorio
Lilla Maria CRISAFULLI JONES: Shelley's Keats
Mariagrazia BELLORINI: What Porridge Had John Keats?: The Brownings' Keats
Alex R. FALZON: Wilde and Keats: % ??La Donnée
Enrico REGGIANI: Fragmentary Symbolists: Keatsian Gusts in Yeats's The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
V PAINTING AND MUSIC
Martin ASKE: Poor Little Susannas: Keats, the Elders and the Prohibition of Desire
Giuseppe GALIGANI: Keats and Music
Notes on Contributors
Index.