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John Keats

Reimagining History

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  1. William A. Ulmer

    1. University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa, USA

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  • Posits Keats’s historicist poetics from a culturally inflected perspective
  • Emphasizes the importance of Cockneyism for Keats’s career
  • Integrates recent scholarship on Regency Cockneyism with Chandler’s account of the historicist agenda of British Romanticism

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Keats and Romantic Historicism

    • William A. Ulmer
    Pages 1-38

  3. History and Vocation in Poems (1817)

    • William A. Ulmer
    Pages 39-74

  4. The Idealism of Endymion

    • William A. Ulmer
    Pages 75-109

  5. Keats’s Medieval Romances

    • William A. Ulmer
    Pages 111-146

  6. Beauty and Truth in Regency Britain

    • William A. Ulmer
    Pages 147-177

  7. Secularism and Consolation in Three Odes

    • William A. Ulmer
    Pages 179-216

  8. High Tragedy in the Hyperion Project

    • William A. Ulmer
    Pages 217-252

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 253-270
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This book considers Keats’s major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism. The poetry’s rich allusiveness represents Keats’s effort to reclaim the British canon for Cockney revisionism, and reveals Keats characteristically invoking the past to define his contemporary cultural politics. The book begins by discussing Keats’s Cockney traditionalism in its Regency context and then proceeds through the poet’s career in chronological order. There are chapters on history and vocation in the poet’s first volume, the failed idealism of 'Endymion', gender and audience in the Medieval Romances, the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' in historical context, secularism and consolation in the other great Odes, and then the two 'Hyperion' fragments, in which history ramifies beyond poetic method to become the explicit subject of inquiry. The result is a stimulating reassessment of Keats’s intellectual development and most admired poems.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa, USA

    William A. Ulmer

About the author

William A. Ulmer is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA. He is the author of books on Percy B. Shelley and William Wordsworth, and of numerous essays on Romantic period texts and issues.

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