John Keats /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Broomall, PA :
Chelsea House Publishers,
[2001]
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| Series: | Bloom's major poets.
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Table of Contents:
- Biography of John Keats
- Introduction to the Ode
- Thematic analysis of "Ode on a Grecian urn"
- Critical views on "Ode on a Grecian urn." Thomas H. Schmid on Keats's poetic concerns ; Thomas C. Kennedy on the tension between poem and work of art ; Jason Mauro on audience participation in the act of reading ; Geraldine Friedman on the relationships between speaker, reader, and text ; Adam Roberts on the imaginative urn ; Aileen Ward on the relationship between the visual arts and poetry
- Thematic analysis of "The eve of St. Agnes"
- Critical views on "The eve of St. Agnes." Gary Farnell on paganism and the nature of fantasy ; Jacqueline Banerjee on Shakespeare's ill-fated lovers and the poem ; Andrew J. Bennett on seeing and unseeing ; John Collick on desire in the poem ; Karen J. Harvey on Merlin and the Lady of the lake
- Thematic analysis of "Ode to a nightingale"
- Critical views on "Ode to a nightingale." Harold Bloom on emerging attitudes toward death ; Earl R. Wasserman on the relationship between poet and nightingale ; Cynthia Chase on the gesture of naming flowers ; Karl P. Wentersdorf on the literary history of nightingales ; Fred V. Randel on the problematic nature of joy in the poem ; James O'Rourke on the movement from daylight into darkness ; Paul D. Sheats on Keats's imaginative contribution to a classical genre
- Thematic analysis of "To autumn"
- Critical views on "To autumn." Hermione de Almeida on the tensions of the season ; Mark Bracher on abundance and fulfillment ; Walter Jackson Bate on the literary perfection of the poem ; Donald Pearce on disturbance and interruption in the poem ; Patrick Swinden on the season of achievement in the poem ; Juhani Rudanko on the never-ending process of nature and human life
- Thematic analysis of "La belle dame sans merci"
- Critical views on "La belle dame sans merci." Mervyn Nicholson on the figure of the tricky female in the poem ; Jane Rabb Cohen on Keats's reworking of a literary convention ; Grant T. Webster on the influence of the Inferno ; Judith Weissman on the nature of language in the poem ; Theresa M. Kelley on Keats and the critics.