Eden, Arcadia, and the Death of Poetry in John Keats's Ode on Indolence.
This essay proposes an interpretation of Keats's Odes of 1819 predicated on a reading of the Ode on Indolence. The Ode is shown to be articulating a crisis endemic to Keats's perception of the foundations of his vocation as a poet. The crisis originates in the poet's increasing self-doubt regarding...
| Publicado en: | Romanticism Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 118 - 129 |
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