John Keats and the culture of dissent
Themes of imagination and politics intertwine in this book, which aims to recover the unsettling voices of Keats's poetry, and trace the ways in which his poems responded to and addressed their contemporary world. It researches Keats's early life and the dissenting culture of Enfield School.
xx, 315 p., [4] p. de lam. ; 23 cm
9780198186298, 0198186290
1085793425
Introduction: John Keats in the Cockney School ; 1. A Cockney Classroom: Keats and the Culture of Dissent ; 2. Cosmopolitics: History, Classics, and Pretty Paganism ; 3. Keats and Charles Cowden Clarke ; 4. 'Soft humanity put on': The Poetry and Politics of Sociality 1798-1818 ; 5. Songs from the Woods; or, Outlaw Lyrics ; 6. The Pharmacopolitical Poet ; 7. 'Apollo's touch': The Pharmacy of Imagination ; 8. Lisping Sedition: Poems, Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent ; Epilogue: John Keats's Commonwealth: The 1820 Collection and 'To Autumn' ; Appendix: Correspondence Relating to the 'Cockney School' Essays ; Bibliography ; Index