The Development of Keats's Mythic Understanding of the Function of the Poet
Description:
John Keats is a mythopoeic poet who created his own mythical substructure, often adapting traditional figures from mythology to give a special meaning to the entire canon of his major work. The early poems are hesitant, imitative, and groping, but the mature poems receive a large part of heir symbolic meaning from the substructure of Keats's myth of the poet on which they rest. In the works of John Keats, then, the reader finds a touchstone of experiences common to all humanity, shaped into Kea…
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Date:
August 1971
Creator:
Glenn, Priscilla Ray
Partner:
UNT Libraries