Keats, narrative and audience : posthumous life of writing
This original study offers clear but conceptually sophisticated readings of Keats's major poems, informed by contemporary literary theory. The book focuses on the relationship between narrative in Keats's poetry and its audience and readers, while also developing a theory of reading for Romantic poetry more generally.
XII, 254 p. 24 cm
9780521445658, 0521445655
1014733486
Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: figures of reading; 1. Narrative and audience in Romantic poetics; 2. Keats's letters; 3. The early verse and Endymion; 4. 'Isabella'; 5. 'The Eve of St Agnes'; 6. 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'; 7. The spring odes; 8. The 'Hyperion' poems; 9. 'To Autumn'; Epilogue: allegories of Reading ('Lamia'); Notes; Bibliography, Index.