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Title
On Keats's practice and poetics of responsibility : beauty and truth in the major poems / G. Douglas Atkins.
ISBN
9783319441443 (electronic book)
3319441442 (electronic book)
3319441434
9783319441436
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PR4836 .A85 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.7
Summary
This accessible, informed, and engaging book offers fresh, new avenues into Keats's poems and letters, including a valuable introduction to "the responsible poet". Focusing on Keats's sense of responsibility to truth, poetry, and the reader, G. Douglas Atkins, a noted T.S. Eliot critic, writes as an ama-teur. He reads the letters as literary texts, essayistic and dramatic; the Odes in comparison with Eliot's treatment of similar subjects; "The Eve of St. Agnes" by adding to his respected earlier article on the poem an addendum outlining a bold new reading; "Lamia" by focusing on its complex and perplexing treatment of philosophy and imagination and revealing how Keats literally represents philosophy as functioning within poetry. Comparing Keats with Eliot, poet-philosopher, this book generates valuable insight into Keats's successful and often sophisticated poetic treatment of ideas, accentuating the image of him as "the responsible poet."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Palgrave pivot.
On reading Keats : essaying toward reader-responsibility
Reading the letters : "The vale of soul-making"
Some of the dangers in "unperplex[ing] bliss from its neighbour pain" : reading the Odes Intra- and Inter-textually
Fleeing into the storm : beauty and truth in "The Eve of St. Agnes"
"For truth's sake" : "Lamia" and the reweaving of the rainbow.