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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... reality , of the imagination ( a stupid or empty skepticism to me ) , Keats knew it to be real when he was writing both letters and poems . As he felt it , the imagination was an act of desire — a desire for reality transfig- ured into ...
... reality . His allego- ry is the advocacy of tapping into a ground which had not ex- isted in the two centuries of science and satire since Shakespeare . The result was that allegory became a kind of " romance , " a spiritual adventure ...
... the so - called idealizations of Romanticism , which to me are formal recognitions of reality . Yet I do so without analysis as a critical " weapon . " primary is to go from Keats outward and then back 18 BOOK OF THE HEART .
... reality : the past moment that becomes present to us when we read a writer's words . To read Keats's letters is to enter both moments ( then and now ) when the word , the very letter , is im- mediate . When we read Keats's autograph ...
... 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 he wrote , achieved the form of ...
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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 |