Title: Keats and philosophy
Description: "John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. This study is a fresh contribution to Keats criticism and Romantic scholarship, positioning Keats as a figure of philosophical interest who warrants renewed attention. Exploring Keats's own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats's poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. The philosophical terms of analysis adopted here challenge the orthodoxies of Keats scholarship, traditionally characterised by the careful historicisation of a limited canon. The philosophical framework of analysis enhances the readings put forward, while Keats's poems, in turn, serve to give fuller expression of those ideas themselves. Using Keats as a particular case, this book also demonstrates the ways in which theory and philosophy supplement literary scholarship"--
Subjects: Philosophy in literature, Senses and sensation in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Philosophy, Criticism and interpretation, Romanticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Phenomenology in literature, English poetry, history and criticism, Sens et sensations dans la littérature, Phénoménologie dans la littérature, Philosophie dans la littérature, Romantisme, LITERARY CRITICISM, General, Gothic & Romance, POETRY, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Philosophie
Places: England
People: John Keats (1795-1821)