Keats: The Religious Sense
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- Synopsis
- A landmark account of how Keat&’s religion shaped his life and poetryJohn Keats (1795–1821) was an earnest seeker after truth who believed in the existence of a Supreme Being and felt a need to investigate the consequences and ramifications of that belief. Keats: The Religious Sense reconstructs the historical, social, and intellectual environment that fostered Keats&’s religious convictions and describes the faith he adopted for himself. In this landmark book, Robert Ryan follows Keats&’s religious development through its observable chronological stages, beginning with the process by which he abandoned the Christian faith of his upbringing. Ryan shows how religious speculation and discussion played a significant formative role in the poet&’s intellectual development, especially in the years of his greatest achievement, and argues that Keats&’s critical judgments of Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth—as well as some of his famous theoretical pronouncements on poetry, including his remarks on &“negative capability&” and &“the truth of Imagination&”—cannot be fully understood without understanding the religious context in which they were made.
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 244 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780691265001
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/08/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Princeton University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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