John Keats is a mythopoeic poet who created his own mythical substructure, often adapting traditional figures from mythology to give a special meaning to the entire canon of his major work. The early poems are hesitant, imitative, and groping, but the mature poems receive a large part of heir symbolic meaning from the substructure of Keats's myth of the poet on which they rest. In the works of John Keats, then, the reader finds a touchstone of experiences common to all humanity, shaped into Keats's central myth of the poet. He left the testament of a poet who could "see as a god sees, and take the depth/ Of things" recorded in his major poems and in some of the most sensitive letters ever written by a poet.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc164475 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Glenn, Priscilla Ray |
| Contributors | Jeffrey, Lloyd N., Tenner, James T. F., 1937-, Misenheimer, James B., Jr., Sale, Richard, 1930- |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iii, 202 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Glenn, Priscilla Ray, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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