John Keats: Reimagining History

by William Ulmer

Book Overview

This book considers Keats's major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism. The poetry's rich allusiveness represents Keats's effort to reclaim the British canon for Cockney revisionism, and reveals Keats characteristically invoking the past to define his contemporary cultural politics. The book begins by discussing Keats's Cockney traditionalism in its Regency context and then proceeds through the poet's career in chronological order. There are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319470833
• ISBN13: 9783319470832
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"