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John Keats
This comprehensive guide to the poetry and letters of John Keats offers a highly readable and detailed textual analysis of the themes and techniques of his work. Blades assesses all the major writing - including the narratives and the great odes - and goes on to examine the context of the verse through a survey of the poet's letters and an examination of the key features of nineteenth century Romanticism. This lively and imaginative study concludes with a discussion of some of the most influential critical responses to Keats's work.
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John Keats
This comprehensive guide to the poetry and letters of John Keats offers a highly readable and detailed textual analysis of the themes and techniques of his work. Blades assesses all the major writing - including the narratives and the great odes - and goes on to examine the context of the verse through a survey of the poet's letters and an examination of the key features of nineteenth century Romanticism. This lively and imaginative study concludes with a discussion of some of the most influential critical responses to Keats's work.
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John Keats

John Keats

by John Blades
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John Keats

John Keats

by John Blades

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This comprehensive guide to the poetry and letters of John Keats offers a highly readable and detailed textual analysis of the themes and techniques of his work. Blades assesses all the major writing - including the narratives and the great odes - and goes on to examine the context of the verse through a survey of the poet's letters and an examination of the key features of nineteenth century Romanticism. This lively and imaginative study concludes with a discussion of some of the most influential critical responses to Keats's work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350310148
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 08/11/2002
Series: Analysing Texts
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 247
File size: 648 KB

About the Author

JOHN BLADES has lectured in English Literature at the universities of Leeds and Durham. His publications include critical studies of James Joyce.
John Blades has lectured in English Literature at the universities of Leeds and Durham, UK.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
Introduction
Principal Events in John Keats's Life
PART ONE: ANALYSING KEATS'S POETRY
'Standing on tip-toe': Keats's Early Verse
The 'beautiful mythology of Greece': Endymion and Lamia
The Two Hyperions: 'a more naked and grecian Manner'
The Major Odes
Three Medieval Love Stories
PART TWO: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS
Keats's Letters
Keats and Nineteenth Century Romanticism
Some Critical Approaches to Keats's Writings
Further Reading
Index.

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An excellently clear, comprehensive and lucidly argued introduction to Keats' poems that students will find very helpful as a supplementary source. A helpful series.' – Simon Malpas, Manchester Metropolitan University

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