John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment

by Porscha Fermanis

John Keats is generally considered to be the least intellectually sophisticated of all the major Romantic poets, but he was a more serious thinker than either his contemporaries or later scholars have acknowledged. This book provides a major reassessment of Keats's intellectual life by considering his engagement with a formidable body of eighteenth-century thought from the work of Voltaire, Robertson, and Gibbon to Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074863780X
• ISBN13: 9780748637805
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher