Title: Keats the poet /
Authors: Sperry, Stuart M.
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Keats, John, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: Keats the Poet was first published in 1973, just as the crest of all the New-Critical exegeses had passed, leaving the critical literature with a wealth of fine readings, but without a real organizing program within which to view them. Stuart Sperry established such a frame of reference. Further, he did so with such prescience that even the most radical deconstructive or new historical approaches to Keats today must bear witness to their inception in Sperry's emphasis on, and subtle demonstration of, the centrality of "indeterminacy" in the poet. Now available in paperback for the first time, this work will enlighten a new generation of readers.
Contents: A Poetry of Sensation -- The Chemistry of the Poetic Process -- The Early Verse -- The Allegory of Endymion -- The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds -- The Northern Walking Tour -- The First Hyperion -- Romance as Wish Fulfillment : The Eve of St. Agnes -- From The Eve of Saint Mark to "La Belle Dame sans Merci" -- Romantic Irony : The Great Odes of the Spring -- Comic Irony : Lamia -- Tragic Irony : The Fall of Hyperion -- Epilogue: "To Autumn" -- Afterword (1994).