Keats and Hellenism

An Essay

Bibliographic Data

ID19928755
AuthorsMartin Aske (corresponding author)
Year1985
Publication date1985-10-10
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueKeats and Hellenism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511553424
OpenAlexW4250156369
Open LibraryOL23133204M
ISBN9780511553424
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This book proposes a fresh and original interpretation of Keats' use of classical mythology in his verse. Dr Aske argues that classical antiquity appears to Keats as a supreme fiction, authoritative yet disconcerting, and his poems represent hard endeavours to come to terms with the influence of that fiction. The major poems (most notably Endymion, Hyperion, the Ode on a Grecian Urn and Lamia) form a stage, as it were, upon which is played out a psychic drama between the modern poet and his classical muse. The study is especially bold in its assimilation of historical scholarship and literary theory to a close reading of the texts. Individual poems are discussed in the context of late Enlightenment and Romantic attitudes towards antiquity and in the light of recent critical theory, in particular the theory of literary history and influence formulated by Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman. Keats emerges as a significant example of the way in which a poet tries to establish a distinct identity under the burden of history and of literary tradition

Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Drama · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Poetry · Reading (process) · Reception theory · Romance · Romanticism · Scholarship · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · 19th century · Classicism · Classicism in literature · England · English poetry · Folklore · Folklore & Mythology · Greece · Greek · Greek influences · Hellenism · Hellenism in literature · History and criticism · in literature · john Keats (1795-1821) · Knowledge · Knowledge and learning · Literature, history and criticism · Mythology, in literature

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