{"product_id":"keatss-anatomy-of-melancholy-lamia-isabella-the-eve-of-st-agnes-and-other-poems-1820-paperback","title":"Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert White\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA detailed study of John Keats's classic volume of poetry published in 1820 considered in the light of the history of melancholy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFirst, book-length critical study of John Keats's collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eLamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1820)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the anthology as a poetically and thematically unified collection, instead of the more usual method of analyzing the poems in chronological order of writing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProposes that the main theme running through the volume is melancholy, a very capacious medical category extending back to ancient Greco-Roman writers, through the Renaissance, and the subject of literary cults in the Romantic age\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first detailed study of Keats's markings and annotations on his copy of Robert Burton's \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy of Melancholy \u003c\/i\u003e(1621) which was his favourite book during 1819 when he was writing the poems\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book examines John Keats's immensely important collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eLamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1820), and is published in the volume's bicentenary. It analyses the collection as an authorially organised and multi-dimensionally unified volume rather than as a collection of occasional poems. R. S. White argues that a guiding theme behind the 1820 volume is the persistent emphasis on different types of melancholy, an ancient, all-consuming medical condition and literary preoccupation in Renaissance and Romantic poetry. Melancholy was a lifelong interest of Keats's, touching on his medical training, his temperament and his delighted reading in 1819 of Burton's \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy of Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e'White's groundbreaking book combines two exceptional dimensions of Keats's career into one compelling argument: the genius of the 1820 collection and the significance of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy for Keats's poetry. White goes where no-one has gone before: he unravels and decodes the marvelous pyrotechnics of Burton's proto-psychological medical text into a deepened, enhanced understanding of Keats's final collection.' Heidi Thomson, Victoria University of Wellington John Keats's classic volume of poetry, considered in the light of the history of melancholy This book examines John Keats's immensely important collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820), and is published in the volume's bicentenary. It analyses the collection as an authorially organised and multi-dimensionally unified volume rather than as a collection of occasional poems. R. S. White argues that a guiding theme behind the 1820 volume is the persistent emphasis on different types of melancholy, an ancient, all-consuming medical condition and literary preoccupation in Renaissance and Romantic poetry. Melancholy was a lifelong interest of Keats's, touching on his medical training, his temperament and his delighted reading in 1819 of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. R. S. White is Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia. Isabella and the Pot of Basil, 1907 (oil on canvas), Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) \/ Private Collection \/ Photo (c) Christie's Images \/ Bridgeman Images 978-1-4744-8045-1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert White is Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia. He was Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1974-89), and since then has been Winthrop Professor of English at the University of Western Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions. He has held an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship, and most recently Visiting Senior Research Fellowship, Magdalen College, Oxford. Publications are mainly on Shakespeare, Keats, the history of emotions, and pacifism in literature. Books include \u003ci\u003eJohn Keats: A Literary Life, Pacifism in English Literature: Minstrels of Peace\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAvant-Garde Hamlet and Shakespeare's Cinema of Love\u003c\/i\u003e. He co-edited \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Emotions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Fortune Theatre: That Vast Open Stage\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHamlet and Emotions\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eKeats's Anatomy of Melancholy Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1820) (EUP 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52240779870482,"sku":"9781474480468","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/QmtucEJIbEF3NDdqZDR4UVhhVmJ4Zz09.webp?v=1777893610","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/keatss-anatomy-of-melancholy-lamia-isabella-the-eve-of-st-agnes-and-other-poems-1820-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}