Keats and his poetry; a study in development.
"Keats and His Poetry traces the inner history of Keats' imagination as it unfolds in the poetry itself rather than as it is reflected in his life. The book's main theme, as stated in the Preface, is the changing significance of Keats' 'attitudes toward "consciousness,&...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago,
University of Chicago Press
[1971]
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| Summary: | "Keats and His Poetry traces the inner history of Keats' imagination as it unfolds in the poetry itself rather than as it is reflected in his life. The book's main theme, as stated in the Preface, is the changing significance of Keats' 'attitudes toward "consciousness," what Keats calls "the thinking principle," by which he means not pure intellection so much as self-awareness and awareness of the world that surrounds, nurtures, and conditions the self.' The result is a study whose significance extends beyond Keats himself toward the meaning of Romanticism in general. Mr. Dickstein shows how the tensions and conflicts within Keats' imagination crystallize the two major stands of Romantic poetry: the visionary and sensuous tendencies that dominate his early poems, representing a recoil from self-consciousness, and a more tragic and realistic kind of poetry, a poetry of self-confrontation, toward which Keats matures and develops..." - Book jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 270 pages 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0226147959 9780226147956 |