Keats and philosophy

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"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

People: John Keats (1795-1821)

Places: England