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Author | : Jack Stillinger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1999-10-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195351509 |
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Using the 180-year history of Keats'sEve of St. Agnes as a basis for theorizing about the reading process, Stillinger's book explores the nature and whereabouts of "meaning" in complex works. A proponent of authorial intent, Stillinger argues a theoretical compromise between author and reader, applying a theory of interpretive democracy that includes the endlessly multifarious reader's response as well as Keats's guessed-at intent. Stillinger also considers the process of constructing meaning, and posits an answer to why Keats's work is considered canonical, and why it is still being read and admired.
Author | : Jack Stillinger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195130227 |
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Agnes," Jack Stillinger examines the continuous inexhaustibility of this one poem, theorizing about the reading process, the nature and whereabouts of "meaning" in complex works, and the connection between multiple meanings and canonical status in literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : John Keats |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2015-04-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 8026835573 |
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This carefully crafted ebook: "John Keats: The Eve of St. Agnes (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "The Eve of St. Agnes" is a poem (42 stanzas). It is widely considered to be amongst his finest poems and was influential in 19th century literature. The poem is in Spenserian stanzas. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes (or St. Agnes' Eve). St. Agnes, the patron saint of virgins, died a martyr in 4th century Rome. The eve falls on January 20th; the feast day on the 21st. The divinations referred to by Keats in this poem are referred to by John Aubrey in his Miscellanies (1696) as being associated with St. Agnes' night. Keats based his poem on the superstition that a girl could see her future husband in a dream if she performed certain rites on the eve of St. Agnes; that is she would go to bed without any supper, undress herself so that she was completely naked and lie on her bed with her hands under the pillow and looking up to the heavens and not to look behind. Then the proposed husband would appear in her dream, kiss her, and feast with her. John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature.
Author | : John Keats |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1820 |
Genre | : Electronic book |
ISBN | : |
Download Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Susan J. Wolfson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2001-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113982600X |
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In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; the critical traditions and theoretical contexts within which Keats's life and achievements have been assessed. These specially commissioned essays examine Keats's specific poetic endeavours, his striking way with language, and his lively letters as well as his engagement with contemporary cultures and literary traditions, his place in criticism, from his day to ours, including the challenge he poses to gender criticism. The contributions are sophisticated but accessible, challenging but lucid, and are complemented by an introduction to Keats's life, a chronology, a descriptive list of contemporary people and periodicals, a source-reference for famous phrases and ideas articulated in Keats's letters, a glossary of literary terms and a guide to further reading.
Author | : John Aubrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1721 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jack Stillinger |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2008-12 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 0252076370 |
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A critical look at three fundamental Romantic poets from a leading scholar of British romanticism
Author | : John Keats |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics Trade Press |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2018-10-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780344503498 |
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Author | : Porscha Fermanis |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2009-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748637818 |
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John Keats is generally considered to be the least intellectually sophisticated of all the major Romantic poets, but he was a more serious thinker than either his contemporaries or later scholars have acknowledged. This book provides a major reassessment of Keats's intellectual life by considering his engagement with a formidable body of eighteenth-century thought from the work of Voltaire, Robertson, and Gibbon to Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith.The book re-examines some of Keats's most important poems, including The Eve of St Agnes, Hyperion, Lamia, and Ode to Psyche, in the light of a range of Enlightenment ideas and contexts from literary history and cultural progress to anthropology, political economy, and moral philosophy. By demonstrating that the language and ideas of the Enlightenment played a key role in establishing his poetic agenda, Keats's poetry is shown to be less the expression of an intuitive young genius than the product of the cultural and intellectual contexts of his time.
Author | : Lucasta Miller |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525655840 |
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A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex cynic whose life and poetry were lived and created on the edge. In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems—"Endymion"; "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer"; "Ode to a Nightingale"; "To Autumn"; "Bright Star" among them—and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation. She writes of aspects of Keats's life that have been overlooked, and explores his imagination in the context of his world and experience, paying tribute to the unique quality of his mind. Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, living dangerously, disdaining respectability and cultural norms, and embracing subversive politics. Keats was a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and fractured family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, who delighted in the sensation of the moment. We see how Keats was regarded by his contemporaries (his writing was seen as smutty) and how the young poet’s large and boisterous life—a man of the metropolis, who took drugs, was sexually reckless and afflicted with syphilis—went straight up against the Victorian moral grain; and Miller makes clear why his writing—considered marginal and avant-garde in his own day—retains its astonishing originality, sensuousness and power two centuries on.