This book offers an exciting reassessment of Keats with particular emphasis on gender identity and sexuality. Traditionally, Keats has been more readily associated with the 'feminine' than any other canonical male English poet. This feminization was always likely, given his tragically early death and the mythologizing which took place soon after. In contrast, John Whale explores Keats's writings from the perspective of masculinity and gender by placing them in the context of contemporary friendship groupings and coterie relationships. Whale addresses all the major poems and gives due prominence to the letters. In so doing, he offers a new understanding of Keats's exploration of poetry, gender and desire, and provides an extended analysis of Keats's quest for poetic fame in the face of the often conflicting forces of love and sexuality.Clear, concise and insightful, this is an essential guide to one of the best-known Romantic poets.

John Keats (Critical Issues, 20)

Literature & Fiction

WHALE, John

British & Irish

Red Globe Press

This book offers an exciting reassessment of Keats with particular emphasis on gender identity and sexuality. Traditionally, Keats has been more readily associated with the 'feminine' than any other canonical male English poet. This feminization was always likely, given his tragically early death and the mythologizing which took place soon after. In contrast, John Whale explores Keats's writings from the perspective of masculinity and gender by placing them in the context of contemporary friendship groupings and coterie relationships. Whale addresses all the major poems and gives due prominence to the letters. In so doing, he offers a new understanding of Keats's exploration of poetry, gender and desire, and provides an extended analysis of Keats's quest for poetic fame in the face of the often conflicting forces of love and sexuality. Clear, concise and insightful, this is an essential guide to one of the best-known Romantic poets.

John Keats (Critical Issues, 22)

Put It in Writing

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Orion Publishing Co

This book brings together 4 of HG Wells most powerful works of science fiction. They are all classics that have pointed the way for modern SF writers.Includes The Time Machine,The Island of Dr.Moreau,The War of the Worlds &amp; The First Men in the Moon

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 39)

This ambitious study offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period--the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, John Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics, focusing in particular on British responses to the French Revolution and the ideology of utilitarianism. Through detailed analysis of key texts by Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge, this book seeks to restore the role of imagination as a more positive force within cultural critique.

Cambridge University Press

Exploring the capacity to articulate the pain and pleasure of lived experiences, this poetry collection is inspired by history and its aftermath. Touching upon the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars, and the Peterloo Massacre, this compilation expresses interest in sharing in the lives of others across time and culture while simultaneously challenging common prejudices.

Waterloo Teeth

Poetry

Northern House

As much elegy as exploration, this compendium of poetry attends to experiences of childhood and the workings of history, discovering how individuals mark time and are subject to it in their lives. As readers experience poems inhabited by a host of shadows--fallen warriors, a conquistador, a father, a mother, a boxer--they are presented with a revelation of the poem itself, its capacity for expression and the space it provides for reflection and its precision and beauty. With this second collection, John Whale continues to take up the mantle of the 1960s Leeds School of poets, and Jeffrey Wainwright in particular, with whom he shares a philosophical and questioning stance.

Frieze

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John Keats (Critical Issues, 20)

John Keats (Critical Issues, 22)

Put It in Writing

Put It in Writing

Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 39)

Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 39)

Waterloo Teeth

Frieze