Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820)

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvRobert White,The University of Western Australia) White, Robert (Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English

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A detailed study of John Keats’s classic volume of poetry published in 1820 considered in the light of the history of melancholyFirst, book-length critical study of John Keats’s collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820)Considers the anthology as a poetically and thematically unified collection, instead of the more usual method of analyzing the poems in chronological order of writingProposes that the main theme running through the volume is melancholy, a very capacious medical category extending back to ancient Greco-Roman writers, through the Renaissance, and the subject of literary cults in the Romantic ageThe first detailed study of Keats’s markings and annotations on his copy of Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) which was his favourite book during 1819 when he was writing the poemsThis book examines John Keats’s immensely important collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820), and is published in the volume’s bicentenary. It analyses the collection as an authorially organised and multi-dimensionally unified volume rather than as a collection of occasional poems. R. S. White argues that a guiding theme behind the 1820 volume is the persistent emphasis on different types of melancholy, an ancient, all-consuming medical condition and literary preoccupation in Renaissance and Romantic poetry. Melancholy was a lifelong interest of Keats’s, touching on his medical training, his temperament and his delighted reading in 1819 of Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-27
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt518 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474480451

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Robert White FAHA is Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at the University of Western Australia and a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions 1100–1800. He has held a Fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre, ANU, an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship, and recently the Senior Visiting Research Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford. His publications are mainly in the field of early modern literature, especially Shakespeare, and also Romantic literature. Monographs include Keats’s Anatomy of Melancholy (Edinburgh University Press, 2020); John Keats: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, revised ed. 2012); Pacifism in English Literature: Minstrels of Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); and Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Others include Avant-Garde Hamlet (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015); Shakespeare’s Cinema of Love (Manchester University Press, 2016); Ambivalent Macbeth (Sydney University Press, 2018); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Language and Writing (Bloomsbury Arden Study, 2020).

Part I: UNITY1. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820) as a unified volume.2. Biography of a book3. Multi-dimensional unity: ‘A dozen features of propriety’Part II: MELANCHOLY4. Melancholy: from medical condition to poetic convention5. Keats as a reader of Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy6. ‘Moods of my own Mind’. Keats’s anatomy of melancholy: The poems in 1820

Keats’s Anatomy of Melancholy is both a fine book and a fitting tribute to the 1820 volume, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems, published as it is two hundred years after the collection it commemorates and does such a scrupulous job of examining. [...] White combines a bibliographic approach with close reading... The result is an engaging and erudite book, which helped me see the final published volume of verse and many of its poems in a fresh light.