Erste Sitzung: 16. April 2018
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John Keats (1795-1821) has been firmly inscribed into the canon of British literature. Along with William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, he is part of the "Big Six" of Romantic poetry. The poet John Keats has been a critical and commercial success while the man John Keats died impoverished, disillusioned and lovesick at the age of only twenty-five in Rome. At the end of his life, he was convinced that the world cared nothing for his poetry and that his name would be forgotten. For his gravestone, he chose the inscription "Here lies one whose name was writ in water".
In this seminar, we will trace both the literary and cultural afterlives of John Keats, the poet, and the life of John Keats, the man. We will discuss his most canonical works such as "Endymion: A Poetic Romance", "The Eve of St Agnes", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "Ode to a Nightingale" but also less well-known poems such as "Character of Charles Brown", "When I have fears that I may cease to be" or "O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell". We will read and analyse individual poems but also attempt to develop an understanding for recurring themes in Keats’s poetry.
Text:
Please note that all students must use the following edition for this seminar:
John Keats: The Complete Poems. Ed. John Barnard. 3rd ed. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
ISBN: 9780140422108 |
