John Keats

by John Barnard

Book Overview

This book offers a revaluation of Keats' major poetry. It reveals how Keats' work is both an oblique criticism of the dominant attitudes to literature, sexuality, religion and politics in his period, and a powerful critique of the claims of the imagination. For all that he shares the optimistic humanism of progressives like Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, and Shelley, Keats nevertheless questions the sufficiency of either Art or Beauty. Professor Barnard shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521318068
• ISBN13: 9780521318068
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"