The Poems of John Keats : A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

ISBN-13: 9780415234771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 216 str.

John Strachan; John Strachan

Opis

Few modern critics would dispute Keats's status as one of the great English poets and many consider his 'Lamia', 'Isabella', 'The Eve of St. Agnes' and Other Poems as the most important single volume of verse to be published during the Romantic period. Perhaps more importantly, he remains one of the most popular poets of any era. This sourcebook offers an introduction to his life, contexts and work, and to the wealth of critical responses to his poetry. The Contexts section offers a sketch of Keats's brief but crowded life and excerpts from key letters, as well as a chronology and key to important acquaintances. Interpretations, the second section of the Sourcebook, combines a survey of criticism with reprinted critical texts, ranging from very mixed early respnoses to more recent essays. This is followed by a selection of key poems, all introduced and extensively annotated, with reference back to the documents found in the previous sections. The volume concludes with a discussion of the various editions of Keats and offers a guide to further reading.

Spis treści

Includes annotated full texts of:

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, To Sleep, Ode to Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on A Grecian Urn, Ode on Melancholy, To Autumn, as well as extracts from Endymion, Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil, Hyperion, Lamia, and The Fall of Hyperion.

O autorze

John Strachan is Reader in Romantic Literature at the University of Sunderland. He has published widely on Romantic literature, including the five-volume edition of Parodies of the Romantic Age, co-edited with Graeme Stones (1999).