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The Development of Keats's Mythic Understanding of the Function of the Poet

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc164475
Date08 1900
CreatorsGlenn, Priscilla Ray
ContributorsJeffrey, Lloyd N., Tenner, James T. F., 1937-, Misenheimer, James B., Jr., Sale, Richard, 1930-
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 202 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Glenn, Priscilla Ray, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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