Keats

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,

As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats’s places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan with the archipelagic. Collectively, the chapters in Keats’s Places range from the claustrophobic stands of Guy’s Hospital operating theatre to the boneshaking interior of the Southampton mail coach; from Highland crags to Hampstead Heath; from crowded city interiors to leafy suburban lanes. Offering new insights into the complex registrations of place and the poetic imagination, the contributors to this book explore how the significant places in John Keats’s life helped to shape an authorial identity.

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.

A passeggio con John Keats è l’opera più misteriosa di Julio Cortázar: scritto in solitudine a Buenos Aires all’inizio degli anni Cinquanta e pubblicato volutamente postumo come omaggio a un poeta che, scomparso giovanissimo, solo dopo la morte ottenne la sua consacrazione, è un libro talmente ricco da sfuggire a ogni catalogazione. È sia un saggio, un acutissimo esercizio di critica letteraria – perché solo un poeta può arrivare al cuore vivo e pulsante della poesia di un altro poeta e scriverne senza ridurlo a nozionismo da accademia –, sia un romanzo, la storia di un personaggio di nome Julio Cortázar che, chiuso nella sua stanza, all’ultimo piano di un palazzo di calle Lavalle, a Buenos Aires, notte dopo notte scrive di Keats, e intanto pensa, divaga, ricorda, compilando a margine del suo libro una sorta di zibaldone..

This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats's strange oxymoronic poetics of suspended animation. Here too are links between surveillance of patients at Bedlam and of inner city streets that were walked by the poet of 'To Autumn'. The book concludes with a survey of multiple romantic pathologies of that most Keatsian of diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis.