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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... truth or beauty is proved upon our pulses . " Man lives by pulses , " Emerson wrote . He was speaking of experience . And our chief experiences , he believed , were casual and have been casualties . Who cannot accept the realism of such ...
... truths of self - restoration . For me the most important element in Keats's Letters is the demand of writing itself , intensely accepted , urgent and hon- est . Keats writes as if everything is at stake . So much of any- thing he writes ...
... . This creativity in the biogra- phy is what I track and explore , convinced that there is a weav- ing in the Letters of " allegory , " " mystery , " " beauty , " " truth , " " salvation , " and so on . This weave 12 BOOK OF THE HEART .
... truth of his other poetic work . In an essay titled " Shelley and Keats " ( 1933 ) , T.S. Eliot found Keats's letters " at- tractive " and admired " the general brilliance and profundity of the observations " scattered throughout them ...
... truths in poems . Yet his letters stand on their own as testaments to poetic truth . Keats's letters , like his po- ems , release a flow that no other form can contain , and such flow is not by any means simply an emotional torrent . He ...
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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 |