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This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical
imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with
dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during
his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at
Guy's and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the
lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats's strange
oxymoronic poetics of suspended animation. Here too are links
between surveillance of patients at Bedlam and of inner city
streets that were walked by the poet of 'To Autumn'. The book
concludes with a survey of multiple romantic pathologies of that
most Keatsian of diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis.
This book was written over a period of six years and looks at the
Romantic Movement, 1770-1848, as it featured in English literature.
Chapters one and three were given as lectures to the Charles Lamb
Society in 1984 and 1987, chapters five and six were first
represented, repectively, at the Romanticism and Revolution
Conference at Lancaster University and at the French Revolution and
British Culture Conference at Leicester University. Such writers as
John Augustus Bonney, Wordsworth, George Dyer and Southey are
examined.
Recent critical and scholarly interest in John Keats has encouraged a resurgence of interest in his friend and mentor, the poet and journalist Leigh Hunt. This timely collection of essays by leading British and North America romanticists explores Hunt's life, writings and cultural significance over the full length of his career, arguing for the recognition of Hunt's importance to British intellectual and literary culture in the Romantic period. eBook available with sample pages: 0203407059
When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of
the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one
decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This
acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the
opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they
appeared to Coleridge's and Wordsworth's contemporaries, and
includes some of their most famous poems, including Coleridge's
Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.
Recent critical and scholarly interest in John Keats has encouraged
a resurgence of interest in his friend and mentor, the poet and
journalist Leigh Hunt. This timely collection of essays by leading
British and North America romanticists explores Hunt's life,
writings and cultural significance over the full length of his
career, arguing for the recognition of Hunt's importance to British
intellectual and literary culture in the Romantic period.
This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical
imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with
dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during
his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at
Guy's and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the
lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats's strange
oxymoronic poetics of suspended animation. Here too are links
between surveillance of patients at Bedlam and of inner city
streets that were walked by the poet of 'To Autumn'. The book
concludes with a survey of multiple romantic pathologies of that
most Keatsian of diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis.
The poems of John Keats have traditionally been regarded as most
resistant of all Romantic poetry to the concerns of history and
politics. But critical trends have begun to overturn this
assumption. Keats and History brings together exciting work by
British and American scholars, in thirteen essays which respond to
interest in the historical dimensions of Keats's poems and letters,
and open alternative perspectives on his achievement. Keats's
writings are approached through politics, social history, feminism,
economics, historiography, stylistics, aesthetics, and mathematical
theory. The editor's introduction places the volume in relation to
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century readings of the poet. Keats
and History will be welcomed by students of English literature, and
by all those interested in English Romanticism.
The unifying thrust of the book is an exploration of the tension in
Coleridge's theory and practice between the Imagination and the
Natural, and a delineation of the particular profile of Coleridge's
imagination as compared to that of Wordsworth. There are
challenging reassessments of Dejection: an Ode, Christabel and
Kubla Khan, among other poems; a cluster of essays on the relations
between Coleridge and Wordsworth; a strikingly original examination
of Coleridge's imagination at work in the privacy of his notebooks;
and an intriguing study of the neglected imagination of Mrs
Coleridge. The volume opens and closes with major statements by
Jonathan Wordsworth on Coleridge's primary imagination and by John
Beer on Kubla Khan, and includes work by such eminent scholars as
Thomas MacFarland, David Erdman, Norman Fruman, Robert Barth,
Anthony Harding, and Stephen Parrish.
The poems of John Keats have traditionally been regarded as most
resistant of all Romantic poetry to the concerns of history and
politics. But critical trends have begun to overturn this
assumption. Keats and History brings together exciting work by
British and American scholars, in thirteen essays which respond to
interest in the historical dimensions of Keats's poems and letters,
and open alternative perspectives on his achievement. Keats's
writings are approached through politics, social history, feminism,
economics, historiography, stylistics, aesthetics, and mathematical
theory. The editor's introduction places the volume in relation to
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century readings of the poet. Keats
and History will be welcomed by students of English literature, and
by all those interested in English Romanticism.
Taking into account recent developments in historical and
ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry
and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of
Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of
Romanticism. Hitherto marginal figures are restored to prominence,
and there is new material on William Wordsworth's radical years.
The book includes the full text of John Thelwall's Essay on Animal
Vitality with commentary, exploring how ideas of nature, revolution
and radical science entwined.
Keats and the Culture of Dissent sets out to recover the lively and
unsettling voices of Keats'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 Keats's
poems, retrieving the vigorous challenges 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.
This book overturns received ideas about Keats as a poet of `beauty' and `sensuousness', highlighting the little studied political perspectives of his works. It recovers the vigorous, pugnacious voices of Keats's poetry, and shows why the poems outraged his early readers. The book gives new information about Keats's life, provocative readings of his poems, and ensures that Keats will hitherto be regarded as the most radical and disturbing of the English Romantic poets.
... must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the
weight of over-cooked Augustanisms. The Guardian They were written
chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of
conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted
to the purposes of poetic pleasure -- William Wordsworth, from the
Advertisment prefacing the original 1798 edition. When it was first
published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day:
Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly
different to what had been voiced before. For Wordsworth, as he so
clearly stated in his celebrated preface to the 1800 edition (also
reproduced here), the important thing was the emotion aroused by
the poem, and not the poem itself. This acclaimed Routledge
Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the
poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge's
and Wordsworth's contemporaries, and includes some of their most
famous poems, including Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.
Movement, deeply influenced by a love of nature. the founders of
the Romantic Movement.
Between 22 June and 18 August 1818, John Keats and his friend and
collaborator Charles Armitage Brown embarked on an epic walking
tour of the English Lake District, South West Scotland, Northern
Ireland, the Ayrshire Burns Country, the Scottish Highlands and
Western Isles, and the Great Glen north eastwards to Inverness,
Beauly, the Black Isle, and Cromarty. During the tour, Keats and
Brown both wrote extensive and detailed accounts of their
experiences. The twelve new essays in this collection each explore
the significance of the 1818 tour for understanding Keats's
achievements, ranging across topics such as the contemporary
Highland tour; Scottish literature, history, landscape and culture;
Romantic responses to Robert Burns's life, works and places; and
Keats's health and influence on Scottish artists.
This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's
radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated,
revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new
edition responds to the most significant critical work on
Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the three decades
since the book first appeared. Fresh material is drawn from
newspapers and printed sources; the poetry of 1798 is given more
detailed attention, and the critical debate surrounding new
historicism is freshly appraised. A new introduction reflects on
how the book was originally researched, offers new insights into
the notorious Leonard Bourdon killings of 1793, and revisits John
Thelwall's predicament in 1798. University politics, radical
dissent, and first-hand experiences of Revolutionary France form
the substance of the opening chapters. Wordsworth's and Coleridge's
relations with William Godwin and John Thelwall are tracked in
detail, and both poets are shown to have been closely connected
with the London Corresponding Society. Godwin's diaries, now
accessible in electronic form, have been drawn upon extensively to
supplement the narrative of his intellectual influence. Offering a
comparative perspective on the poets and their contemporaries, the
book investigates the ways in which 1790s radicals coped with
personal crisis, arrests, trumped-up charges, and prosecutions.
Some fled the country, becoming refugees; others went underground,
hiding away as inner emigres. Against that backdrop, Wordsworth and
Coleridge opted for a different revolution: they wrote poems that
would change the way people thought.
This uniquely comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to Romantic
literature presents forty-six newly commissioned chapters from an
international team of contributors, both long-established scholars
and cutting-edge academics. It combines an introduction to the
literary and historical contexts of Romanticism with material on
critical and theoretical approaches and detailed readings of
Romantic texts. The volume is divided into four parts: "Romantic
Orientations," "Reading Romanticism," "Romantic Forms," and
"Romantic Afterlives." The last part considers the influence of
Romanticism on later writers and on contemporary culture.
Bringing together an exciting variety of approaches, these fifteen chapters illuminate Coleridge's relation to the 'sciences of life' - a term much broader than modern 'science'. Along with optics, chemistry, geology, anatomy, and medicine the studies embrace politics, racial theories, literary relations, and much more. This is a vital and exciting development in Coleridge criticism.
An entirely new portrait of Keats, rich with insights into the
torments of his life and the imaginative sources of his works This
landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes
entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive,
tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real
flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey
to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure of his vocation while
bitterly resentful of the obstacles that blighted his career;
devoured by sexual desire and frustration; and in thrall to alcohol
and opium. Through unparalleled original research, Roe arrives at a
fascinating reassessment of Keats's entire life, from his early
years at Keats's Livery Stables through his harrowing battle with
tuberculosis and death at age 25. Zeroing in on crucial turning
points, Roe finds in the locations of Keats's poems new keys to the
nature of his imaginative quest. Roe is the first biographer to
provide a full and fresh account of Keats's childhood in the City
of London and how it shaped the would-be poet. The mysterious early
death of Keats's father, his mother's too-swift remarriage, living
in the shadow of the notorious madhouse Bedlam-all these affected
Keats far more than has been previously understood. The author also
sheds light on Keats's doomed passion for Fanny Brawne, his circle
of brilliant friends, hitherto unknown City relatives, and much
more. Filled with revelations and daring to ask new questions, this
book now stands as the definitive volume on one of the most beloved
poets of the English language.
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