Keats's Boyish Imagination

by Richard Marggraf Turley

Overview

For many readers, John Keats's achievement is to have attainted a supreme poetic maturity at so young an age. Canonical poems of resignation and acceptance such as 'To Autumn' are traditionally seen as examples par excellence of this maturity. In this highly innovative study, however, Marggraf Turley examines how, for Keats, an insistence on 'boyishness' in the midst of apparent mature imagery is the very essence of his political contestation of the literary establishment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134441037
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Series:	Routledge Studies in Romanticism
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Richard Marggraf Turley is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author ofThe Politics of Language in Romantic Literature (2002) andWriting Essays: A Guide for Students in English and the Humanities (2000). He is currently working on a co-edited collection of essays tracing Romantic influence in twentieth-century literature.

Table of Contents

Preface, Richard Marggraf Turley; Note on Texts, Richard Marggraf Turley; Introduction, Richard Marggraf Turley; Chapter 1 ‘Strange Longings’, Richard Marggraf Turley; Chapter 2 ‘Full-Grown Lambs’, Richard Marggraf Turley; Chapter 3 ‘Give Me that Voice Again’, Richard Marggraf Turley; Chapter 4 Japing the Sublime, Richard Marggraf Turley; Chapter 5 ‘Stifling Up the Vale’, Richard Marggraf Turley; afterword Afterword, Richard Marggraf TurleyAppendix, Richard Marggraf TurleyCalidore: A Fragment, Richard Marggraf TurleyTo Autumn, Richard Marggraf Turley;

Editorial Reviews

'Keat's Boyish Imagination is a worthy successor to an important if edgy tradition of Keats criticism ...' - BARS Bulletin & Review, Issue No. 26

'Keat's Boyish Imagination is a worthy successor to an important if edgy tradition of Keats criticism ...' - BARS Bulletin & Review, Issue No. 26

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