A Greeting of the Spirit : Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries / Susan J. Wolfson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfson, Susan J., Author.

Contributor:

De Gruyter.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Contained In:

De Gruyter University Press Library.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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Summary:

A renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet's extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary.John Keats's career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than four years, cut short by his death early in 1821 at age twenty-five. Yet in this time, he produced a remarkable-and remarkably wide-ranging-body of work that has secured his place as one of the most influential poets in the British literary tradition. Celebrated Keats scholar Susan J. Wolfson presents seventy-eight selections from his work, each accompanied by a commentary on its form, style, meanings, and relevant contexts.In this edition, readers will rediscover a virtuoso poet, by turns lively, experimental, self-ironizing, outrageous, and philosophical. Wolfson includes such well-known favorites as Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, La Belle Dame sans Merci, and The Eve of St. Agnes, as well as less familiar poems, several in letters to family and friends never meant for publication. Her selections redefine the breadth and depth of Keats's poetic imagination, from intellectual jests and satires to erotic bandying, passionate confessions, and reflections on mortality.The selections, presented in their order of composition, convey a chronicle of Keats's artistic and personal evolution. Wolfson's revealing commentaries unfold the lively complexities of his verbal arts and stylistic experiments, his earnest goals and nervous apprehensions, and the pressures of politics and literary criticism in his day. In critically attentive and conversational prose, Wolfson encourages us to experience Keats in the way that he himself imagined the language of poetry: as a living event, a cooperative experience shared between author and reader.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Author's note on text and style

Abbreviations

Illustrations

Introduction

Sonnet Ventures: April 1814-April 1817

Poems and a "Long Poem" March 1817-March 1818

Training, Retraining, "New Romance" December 1817-May 1818

To the North, to the North: Summer 1818

Wide Venturing: Fall 1818-April 1819

Garlands of their Own: Spring-Summer 1819

All I Live For: Last Poems, August 1819-Winter 1820

Ending, Unending

Postscript

Time-Lines

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)

ISBN:

9780674287396

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.