John Keats and the culture of dissent

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Label

John Keats and the culture of dissent

Statement of responsibility

Nicholas Roe

Creator

• Roe, Nicholas

Subject

• Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Political and social views
• Political poetry, English -- History and criticism
• Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Pensée politique et sociale
• Radicalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Social problems in literature
• Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

This book sets out to recover the lively and unsettling voices of Keat's poetry, and seeks to trace the complex ways in which his poems responded to and addressed their contemporary world. It offers new research about Keats's early life opening valuable new perspectives on his poetry. Two chapters explore the dissenting culture of Enfield School, showing how the school exercised a strong influence on Keats's imaginative life and his political radicalism. Imagination and politics intertwine through succeeding chapters on Keats's friendship with Charles Cowden Clarke; his medical career; the 'Cockney' milieu in which Keats's poems were written; and on the immediate controversial impact of his three collections of poetry. The author deftly reconstructs contexts and contemporary resonances for Keat's poems, retrieving the vigorous challenge of Keats's verbal art which outraged his early readers but which was lost to us as Keats entered the canon of English romantic poets

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4838.P6

LC item number

R64 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography