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John Keats, The Great Romanticist
It is the purpose of this thesis to show that John Keats possessed all the essentially Romantic characteristics of Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, and Wordsworth, plus his own-restraint. A word, by way of introduction on Romanticism, which stands alone among literary movements in having exercised upon …
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Negative capability and the poetry of John Keats
<p>The unity of Keats’s poetry has proved elusive to most scholars. The critical debate which still continues about the “meaning” or “message” in such poems as “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “La Belle Dame,” and “Lamia” seems to indicate that Keats scholarship has even failed to …
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John Middleton Murry as a Critic of John Keats
John Middleton Murry, a modern disciple and critic of John Keats, was born in London on August 6, 1889. His industry in pursuing a strictly classical education at Christ’s Hospital, London, won for him a scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford, where despite promise as a scholar it developed that …
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The Bodily Vision: A Phenomenological Study of John Keats
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The Beauty of Rapport: Reading Three Odes by John Keats
This study argues that John Keats is a poet whose key consideration is empathy and who possesses the ability to establish profound rapport with the readers of his poems. In order to explore this ability, the paper focuses on Keats's definition of the "poetical character”: Keats writes that the poet …
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An Explication of the Text of John Keats' Ode on Melancholy
… to critics is the internal evidence that Keats’ poetry shows not only a most acute sensitivity to sensuous beauty, but also a penetrating and analytic interior vision not always co-existent with the sensuous. Consequently, any poem of Keats crystalizing these two characteristics will …
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An Explanation of the Sonnet "On the Sonnet" by John Keats
<p>Writing to his brother, George Keats, in a journal letter dated April, l819, John Keats stated that he had been experimenting with the sonnet form in an attempt to improve it. "I have been endeavoring to discover a better sonnet stanza," he writes. "The legitimate does not suit the language …
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Metaphorical Projection and the Picturesque in the Writings of John Keats
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Negative Capability as an Ethic of Empathy: Practicing Narrative Medicine with John Keats in Mind
… elements of narrative medicine theory and John Keats’s quality of negative capability and explores the ways in which an understanding of negative capability can inform narrative medicine practices and guide narrative medicine beyond its present theory. I argue that scholars and …
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Systems of Power, Systems of Space: Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Smith, and John Keats in Romantic Greater London
… chapter interprets the role of Hampstead in John Keats’ later poems. In works like “Ode to a Nightingale,” Lamia, and “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” a landscape and narrative of exile emerges that is informed by Keats’ dejected position outside mainstream literary culture. His later poems …
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John Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn : a study of the critical opinions and textual material.
Since its publication in 1820 critics have offered numerous opinions concerning the Ode on a Grecian Urn. Until 1925 the criticism was shallow, but a predominant theory did emerge. During the last forty-one years this theory has been engulfed by a flood of new interpretations. The result is that …
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Romantic Ideals in Contemporary Folk Music
… (1772-1834), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), John Keats (1795-1821), as well as Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), among others and their critics are all considered for points of comparison to the modern lyrics. The reason for this revival is considered in the …
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The Seer's Abacus
… there is room to add the other. Simone Weil, John Keats, Jack Spicer and Emily Dickinson suggest that the poet ought to renounce the self so as to offer up her own voice as a sacrifice to the world. The poet who hopes to speak for others must become no Body so that she can become every …
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Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet
… reading of the poems of William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley reveals the variant use of caesura, creative dissonance, as well as original organization and rhyme scheme to accomplish purely Romantic goals within the uniformity of the sonnet form.</p>
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Geological bodies: Form and process in romantic poetry and geology
… subject. Reading poetry by Charlotte Smith, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth I reveal the cultural entanglements among geology, poetry, and the human body and its history. Putting geological and poetic forms into conversation with one another, I also argue that the …
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Science, politics, and soul-making: the Romantic encounter with climate change
… (William Cowper, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats and John Ruskin), I argue that an epistemic shift occurred in the way Britons understood their own climate’s history and its relationship to the earth’s climate. Using an ecohistorical method that combines close historical inquiry and …
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Ancestral voices: philological nationalism in the British Romantic period
… Turning back to poetry, I suggest that John Keats engages -- over the course of several poems and letters -- in a critical negotiation of different modes of cultural identification, from religion, to Hellenism, to what he considers 'pure English.' Underlying a shift in cultural concepts …
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Communication with the Other World in Romantic Poetry
From the godly Cynthia in Keats’s *Endymion* to the Polar Spirit and his fellow demons in Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, from P.B. Shelley’s fairy in ‘Queen Mab’ to Francesca’s ghost in Byron’s ‘The Siege of Corinth’, Romantic poetry is populated – or rather haunted – by …
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