Book of the Heart: The Poetics, Letters, and Life of John KeatsSteinerBooks, 1993 - Počet stran: 240 Keats stands as a prophetic precursor behind much in today's radical attempts at cultural and self-transformation. But this side of him has been forgotten, or at least was never taken very seriously. He is remembered, if at all, mostly as a Romantic poet whose value and standing was magnified by his early death. Eclipsed by the lushly sensuous affection of his poems, the real meaning of his life and the greatness of his achievement in poetics--how one makes sense out of experience--has been ignored. Now Andrés Rodríguez redresses the balance by granting to Keats' Letters their huge intellectual and spiritual labor. In these Letters, one of the most inspiritng spiritual documents of the West, we see the poet forming and transfroming a passionate life of great joys and sorrows into a self of imagination and power. Book of the Heart grasps the core of Keats' poetical practice of life, uncovering the path of knowledge that the Letters reveal. United with Keats in an imaginative union that is as moving as it is true, Rodríguez presents Keats as a hero of the heart, whose deep life experience oriented him in a unique way toward the world of love, suffering, death, and creativity. |
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... kind of fable or myth to replace what is antithetical to the " figurative , " namely circumstance or harsh reality . His allego- ry is the advocacy of tapping into a ground which had not ex- isted in the two centuries of science and ...
... kind of praise all three au- thors have bestowed . Keats had to write letters before he could embody their truths in poems . Yet his letters stand on their own as testaments to poetic truth . Keats's letters , like his po- ems , release ...
... kind of treasure I mine in this book . But more than enough contain treasure , allowing me to attempt an interpretation of poetics . Since I could not really discuss poetics without including the issues and influences in my education ...
... kind of scene his painter friends Benjamin Robert Haydon or Joseph Severn might have rendered on canvas . But the nuance of a couple of details modifies this impression of ease . The book Keats has previously been reading is a tragedy ...
... kind of treasure , a vision of reality in words , that is beautiful and profound . In each and every letter that same mind is present , absolutely centered on and blazing with the light of imagination . All experience for Keats , when ...
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The Penetralium of Mystery | 37 |
The Light of Supreme Darkness | 73 |
From Feathers To Iron | 95 |
The Chamber of Maiden Thought | 113 |
The World Out There | 131 |
The Vale of SoulMaking | 163 |
Loves Patient Sleepless Eremite | 195 |
Will and Beauty | 225 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 231 |