1st Edition

Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats

By Jack L. Siler Copyright 2008
    132 Pages
    by Routledge

    132 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal Annals of the Fine Arts, whilst the poems after Endymion reveal a poet more concerned with the nature of poetic representation--its why and wherefore.

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Chapter One: Poetic Language and Political Engagement

    Chapter Two: The Early Poems and "Endymion"

    Chapter Three: The Odes

    Conclusion: "The Fall of Hyperion"

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

     

    Biography

    Jack Siler