This is the ideal student guide to one of the central figures of English Romanticism. It brings together texts and documents to provide a gateway to an understanding of Keats's life and his work in context, and includes: *a chronology of Keats's brief but crowded life *contemporary documents, including letters by the poet *early critical reception and twentieth century criticism. Carefully annotated texts of Keats's most widely studied poems and suggestions for further reading complete the volume. Table of Contents Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Contexts Contextual Overview: The Life of John Keats Keats's Friends and Contemporaries Chronology: Contemporary Documents From letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 From letter from Keats to George and Tom Keats, 21 Decemebr 1817 From letter from Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818 From letter from Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 May 1818 Letter from Keats to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818 From journal-letter from Keats to George and Geogiana Keats, 16 April 1819 From journal-letter from Keats to George and Georgiana Keats, 21 April 1819 From letter from Leigh Hunt to Jospeh Severn, February 1821 2. Interpretations Critical History Early Critical Reception From Leigh Hunt, 'The Young Poets' (1816) From John Wilson Croker's review of Endymion (1818) From John Gibson Lockhart (writing a 'Z.'), the 'Cockney School of Poetry, No. IV' (1818) From John Hamilton Reynolds's defence of Keats (October 1818) From Frnacis Jeffrey's review of Endymion and Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems (1820) From Lord Byron's letters to John Murray (1820) From Leigh Hunt's review of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems (1820) From Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to Adonais (1821) From William Hazlitt's 'On Effeminacy of Character' (from Table Talk (1821-2)) From William Howitt's Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets (1847) From Matthew Arnold's 'John Keats' (1880) Modern Criticism From H. W. Garrod, Keats (1926) From Cleanth Brooks, 'Keats's Sylvan Historian; History without Footnotes' (1947) From Ear R. Wasserman, The Finer Tone: Keats' Major Poems (1952) From John Bayley, 'Keats and Reality' (1962) From Walter Jackson Bate, John Keats (1963) From John Jones, John Keats's Dream of Truth (1969) From Carl Woodring, Politics in English Romantic Poetry (1970) From Stuart Sperry, Keats the Poet (1973) From Christopher Ricks, Keats and Embarrassment (1974) From Jerome J. McGann, 'Keats and the Historical Method in Lierary Criticism' (1979) From Helen Vendler, The Odes of John Keats (1983) From Marjorie Levinson, Keats's Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style (1988) From Anne K. Mellor, Romanticism and Gender (1993) From Daniel P. Watkins, 'History, Self, and Gender in Ode to Psyche' (1995) From Nicholas Roe, John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (1997) From Susan Wolfson, 'Keats and Gender Criticism' (1998) From Jeffrey N. Cox, Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and their Circle (1998) 3. Key Poems 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' From Endymion From 'Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil: A Story from Boccaccio' From Hyperion. A Fragment 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad' 'To Sleep' 'Ode to Psyche' 'Ode to a Nightingale' 'Ode to a Grecian Urn' 'Ode on Melancholy' From Lamia From The Publisher: Master of all things ephemeral and sensory, John Keats is undisputedly one of the most influential figures in poetry, and this sourcebook is the ideal introduction to this elusive, tragic Romantic hero. In this sourcebook, John Strachan gathers a wealth of material: a chronology of Keat's brief, but turbulent, life, Keats' letters, criticism from Keats' contemporaries to the present day, carefully annotated texts of his poems, including "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and suggestions for further reading. For all the essential information on Keats, look no further than this sourcebook. |
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