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Keats's Vanishing Books

Rohrbach, Emily

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Abstract

Keats’s poems written in the years leading up to his annus mirabilis, 1819, frequently feature books, but those references and images vanish from his poetic production in 1819 and the subsequent publication of that verse in his 1820 volume. This essay attempts to account for that shift in his poetics by exploring Keats’s relation to his friend and mentor Leigh Hunt, proposing that this poetic shift attends Keats’s political departure from Hunt’s privatised, metropolitan imagination in favour of a more public and egalitarian poetics of dispossession.

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Rohrbach, E. (2022). Keats's Vanishing Books. Romanticism, 28(2), 165-174. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0552

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2022-06
Deposit Date Oct 4, 2021
Journal Romanticism
Print ISSN 1354-991X
Electronic ISSN 1750-0192
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 28
Issue 2
Pages 165-174
DOI https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0552
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1234570