'The poetry of earth is never dead': Meteorology and Myth in Keats's Grasshopper Sonnet.
Keats's 1816 competition sonnet 'On the Grasshopper and Cricket' is easily dismissed as juvenilia, but when read with an eye to his interest in Greek mythology, the poem rewards further attention. In particular, the myth of Tithonus, who gained eternal life without eternal youth and was transformed...
| Publicado en: | Romanticism Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 140 - 150 |
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