9780521266918-0521266912-John Keats (British and Irish Authors)

John Keats (British and Irish Authors)

ISBN-13: 9780521266918
ISBN-10: 0521266912
Edition: 1
Author: John Barnard
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521266918
ISBN-10: 0521266912
Edition: 1
Author: John Barnard
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 192 pages

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John Keats (British and Irish Authors) (ISBN-13: 9780521266918 and ISBN-10: 0521266912), written by authors John Barnard, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1987. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent John Keats (British and Irish Authors) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This book offers a revaluation of Keats' major poetry. It reveals how Keats' work is both an oblique criticism of the dominant attitudes to literature, sexuality, religion and politics in his period, and a powerful critique of the claims of the imagination. For all that he shares the optimistic humanism of progressives like Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, and Shelley, Keats nevertheless questions the sufficiency of either Art or Beauty. Professor Barnard shows how the notorious attack on Keats as a Cockney poet was motivated by class and political bias. He analyses the problems facing Keats as a second-generation Romantic, his continuing difficulty in finding an appropriate style for 'Poesy', and his uncertain judgement of his own work. The ambiguities and stresses evident in the poetry's treatment of women and sexual love are seen to reflect divisions in Keats and his society. The maturing use of myth from Poems (1817) to The Fall of Hyperion, and the achievement of the major odes are set in relation to Keats' whole career.

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