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Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry.
Some of the essays have been previously published and are established as classic studies, which have strongly influenced scholarly interpretation of the poems they discuss, including landmark readings of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, 'Julian and Maddalo' and 'Ozymandias', and Keats's 'Isabella: or the Pot of Basil' and his sonnet 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'. These are brought into relationship with new work on the two poets, in a wide-ranging set of meditations which centre on Shelley's great elegy for Keats, Adonais. An introductory chapter considers the strongly contrasting poetic styles and achievement of the two iconic 'young Romantics', a contrast which has been obscured by their conventional close pairing in popular culture. Five studies of Keats are followed by a pivotal account of Shelley's elaborately-wrought poetic tribute to Keats's destined greatness, which leads in to a balancing six studies of Shelley. Both poets are situated illuminatingly in their literary, personal, and social-historical milieu, through a series of perspectives which combine lucid particularity with powerful generalization.
The essays move from detailed analysis of textual minutiae to deep reflection on fundamental themes in the work of Keats and Shelley, including the ultimate themes of transience and permanence, and of life, death, and immortality.
Contents
1: Introduction: On Shelley and Keats
2: Why Read Keats?
3: Keats Amid the Alien Corn
4: Isabella in the Market-Place: Keats and Feminism
5: Keats's Formal Legacy and the Victorians
6: Keats Meets Coleridge
7: Shelley's Adonais and John Keats
8: Shelley and the Heart's Echoes
9: Shelley and his Contemporaries
10: Shelley's Doubles: An Approach to Julian and Maddalo
11: 'Mechanism of a kind yet unattempted': The Dramatic Action of Prometheus Unbound
12: 'Ozymandias': The Text in Time
13: 'Newly Unfrozen Senses and Imagination': Shelley's Translation of the Symposium and his Development as a Writer in Italy
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