A brighter word than bright : Keats at work / Dan Beachy-Quick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beachy-Quick, Dan, 1973-

Series:

Muse Books

Muse books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Keats, John, 1795-1821--Criticism and interpretation.

Keats, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Romantic poet John Keats, considered by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language, has long been the subject of attention from scholars who seek to understand him and poets who seek to emulate him. Bridging these impulses, A Brighter Word Than Bright is neither historical biography nor scholarly study, but instead a biography of Keats's poetic imagination. Here the noted poet Dan Beachy-Quick enters into Keats's writing-both his letters and his poems-not to critique or judge, not to claim or argue, but to embrace the passion and quickness of his poetry and engage the aesthe

Contents:

Contents

Apology

A Note on the Book

First Portrait: Young Keats, Weeping Beneath the Desk

1816

Muse

Silence

Sacred & Profane

Genius

Inspiration

Imagination

Thought

Beauty

Eros

Second Portrait: Apprenticeship

1817

The Burden of a Shepherd Song

Third Portrait: Ascent & Descent

1818

Failure "Genius" self

Indolence "Ambition" Imagination

Knowledge "Thought" Confusion

Abstraction "Wonder" Witness

Magnet "Pursuit" Gap

Fourth Portrait: Of Thrushes & Sparrows (A Palimpsest, 1817-1820)

1819

Of the Odes: A Speculative Context

Indolence or, The First Seen Shades Return

Psyche or, The Wreath"d Trellis of a Working Brain

Melancholy or , The Rainbow of the Salt Sand-Wave

Nightingale or, Fled Is That Music

Urn or, To What Green Altar

Autumn or, Careless on a Granary Floor

Fifth Portrait: Envelopes (Opened & Unopened) & Aeolian Harps

1820

The Many Last Months: Imagination's Ambivalence

Sixth Portrait: The Late Flowers

Last Portrait: Of His Hand

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 5, 2013).

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781609382049

1609382048

OCLC:

857800722