Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09524142.2021.1911170
Rosie Whitcombe
ABSTRACT This essay examines how the cultures and forms of letter writing, specifically the practice of sending letters over long distances, allow Keats to generate a unique form of consolation when faced with tragedy. In some letters, distance is a problem Keats must overcome through the shared act of correspondence. When Keats writes across the Atlantic to communicate the news of Tom’s death to George and Georgiana, the distance between Keats and his recipients works to offset the immediacy of grief through the temporal dislocation that takes place between the sending and receiving of a long-distance letter. Conversely, sharing letters over very short distances, as Keats does with Fanny Brawne while he is confined to his half of Wentworth Place, comes to exacerbate his suffering precisely because of the lack of distance between sender and recipient. Keats’s sensitive and self-conscious engagement with distance is played out in the letters he writes while dealing with the aftermath, and threat, of death.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09524142.2021.1911169
Jill Sharp
Jill Sharp grew up in the New Forest and attended the universities of Keele and Queen Mary, London. She worked as a tutor of excluded teenagers and was an associate lecturer with the Open University for many years. Her poetry has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies both in print and online. A pamphlet, Ye gods, was published in 2015 by Indigo Dreams, and her work was featured in Vindication, a six-poet collection from Arachne Press, 2018. She reviews for The High Window online journal.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09524142.2021.1911179
Brian Rejack, S. Wolfson
ABSTRACT In John Keats’s Isabella; or the Pot of Basil (1820), Isabella’s mercantile brothers plot to murder her suitor, their clerk Lorenzo, for spoiling their plans to marry her to ‘some high noble and his olive–trees’. Having invited him for a day of hunting in the local forests, ‘the two brothers and their murder’d man’ (XXVII) head out – an epithet admired by Charles Lamb, and much afterwards, for Keats’s skill in narrative anticipation. Lamb’s praise was published in a review of the 1820 volume, reprinted in The Examiner, 30 July, 494-5. This appreciation is on page 494. On page 495, just below the review, is a report of ‘Executions’ at Newgate prison. One of the condemned is a ‘black man’, William Wilkinson, who insisted that he was framed and convicted on flimsy testimony, protesting that ‘he was a murdered man, and that he should die innocently’. This was an accidental discovery on our part, but once discovered a magnetic curiosity. Our essay examines what Lamb calls Keats’s ‘wonderfully conceived’ epithet, in the capital contexts of Keats’s day, most especially in reports in The Examiner and other newspapers. Making no claim for allusion on Keats’s part, or for Lamb’s admiration of this epithet, we shine an unexpected light on the urgent currency of this epithet, a potent rhetorical alliance among victims of ‘judicial murder’, and its new cast on economic power and tyranny in Isabella.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/09524142.2020.1822015
Valentina Varinelli
ABSTRACT The article examines Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s copies of the works of four canonical poets that are held at Keats-Shelley House, Rome, and the existence of which is largely unknown. They include Shelley’s fabled Grenville Homer as well as a collection of the works of Horace, Lucan’s Pharsalia, and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso. For each book I identify the edition, provide a physical description, and transcribe and discuss any inscriptions, markings, and annotations. On the basis of internal as well as external evidence, I argue that the Shelleys had these books with them in Italy at the time of their exile, and I illustrate their engagement with the texts and their collaboration as readers and language learners. In my conclusion, I suggest that the study of extant books from the Shelleys’ personal library can enrich our knowledge of their life and work, and contribute to our understanding of the nature of their intellectual partnership.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/09524142.2020.1822010
A. Barry
ABSTRACT This article re-examines the impact on Keats’s poetics of his brother Tom’s illness and death by paying attention to the disregarded references to Tom’s feverish body in the framing sections at the beginning and ends of Keats’s letters. While many critics have sought to abstract from these letters Keats’s literary and philosophical ideas, I resituate his memorable metaphysical passages within an epistolary structure that continually returns to an acute awareness of physical mortality. I show that this structural pattern also imprints on the endings of the poems Keats wrote while nursing and mourning Tom, especially The Eve of St. Agnes (1819), ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (1819), and the revised fragment of the Hyperion project (1818–19). I argue that Tom’s body emerges at the end of Keats’s literary productions because physical suffering is what causes metaphysical and romantic fantasy – and even communication itself – to falter. However, Tom’s suffering is also, paradoxically, what motivates Keats’s to write in the first place – it is the origin of his poetic imagination and the conclusion of his poetic project.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/09524142.2020.1822008
Roberto Einaudi
Peter Rockwell’s death is a great loss to everyone. As often happens, one realizes all too late the many projects one could and should have done together. He was a very interesting and eccentric pe...
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