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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2015
Print publication year:
2015
Online ISBN:
9781139048774
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139048774
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest
Series:
Reading Writers and their Work
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Book description

John Keats (1795–1821), one of the best-loved poets of the Romantic period, is ever alive to words, discovering his purposes as he reads - not only books but also the world around him. Leading Keats scholar Susan J. Wolfson explores the breadth of his works, including his longest ever poem Endymion; subsequent romances, Isabella (a Boccaccio tale with a proto-Marxian edge admired by George Bernard Shaw), the passionate Eve of St Agnes and knotty Lamia; intricate sonnets and innovative odes; the unfinished Hyperion project (Keats's existential rethinking of epic agony); and late lyrics involved with Fanny Brawne, the bright (sometimes dark) star of his last years. Illustrated with manuscript pages, title-pages, and two portraits, Reading John Keats investigates the brilliant complexities of Keats's imagination and his genius in wordplay, uncovering surprises and new delights, and encouraging renewed respect for the power of Keats's thinking and the subtle turns of his writing.

Awards

Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Reviews

'… the book presents a chronological journey through Keats’s biographia literaria, a boon for readers of Keats; but Wolfson’s attention to reading is also a movable feast, modeling a process that can be transferred to other writers …'

John Kandl Source: Modern Philology

'There is perhaps no scholar better suited to the task of reading Keats’s poetry and letters than Wolfson. … teachers of poetry competing with a multiplicity of media for the attention of a young generation of readers will no doubt welcome this loving and lively book.'

Emily Rohrbach Source: The BARS Review

“In Reading John Keats, Susan Wolfson offers a dazzling tour of Keats’s poetry across the brief, blazoned arc of his career … Over the course of ten svelte, fast-paced chapters, Wolfson assembles an anthology of stunning readings of poetry readers find they may not know quite as well as they presumed. Whether one is looking into Keats’s sonnet on Chapman’s Homer for the first time, one sees - and hears - it anew under Wolfson’s tutelage.'

Source: The Wordsworth Circle

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References
Further reading
Poems (London: C. & J. Ollier, 1817), Endymion (London: Taylor & Hessey, 1818), and Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (London: Taylor & Hessey, 1820) are available on google books.
The Poems of John Keats, ed. Stillinger, Jack. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978; concordance, ed. Noah Comet: www.rc.umd.edu/reference/keatsconcordance/.
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The Letters of John Keats, ed. Gittings, Robert, rev. Mee, John. Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Bernstein, Gene. “Keats's ‘Lamia’: The Sense of a Non-Ending,” Papers on Language and Literature 15 (1979) 175–92 – the title playing off of Frank Kermode's The Sense of an Ending.
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