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| Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, and Daniel Johnson, eds.
KEATS'S READING / READING KEATS: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF JACK STILLINGER
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) xxvi + 362 pp.
Reviewed by Karen Swann on 2023-03-20
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Reading Keats means reading with eyes and ears open to Keats's reading--reading that inspired his first known poem, "Imitation of Spenser"; his many poems about the experience of books ("On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again"); his poetic celebrations of other poets ("To Lord Byron," "Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's hair," "To Homer"); and his translations or adaptations of already-told tales (Isabella, Lamia, the Hyperion poems).
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POETIC FORM AND ROMANTIC PROVOCATION
(Stanford, 2022) xiv + 245 pp.
Reviewed by Stephen Tedeschi on 2023-02-13
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What happens when a poem provokes us? What can such provocations reveal about the nature of poetry, affect, and the self? In this book Carmen Faye Mathes shows how Romantic-period poets manipulate poetic form to provoke specific affective responses in their readers and how they think these provocations work.
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