The Odes of John KeatsBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1983 - 330 pages Argues that Keat's six odes form a sequence, identifies their major themes, and provides detailed interpretations of the poems' philosophy, mythological references, and lyric structures. |
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Page 22
... voice of the Ode to a Nightingale ; the Greek figures , in their mute glance , evoke the language of the Urn ; the one is the voice of the bower , the other the voice of the ar- tifact . There is , of course , a third voice in Indolence- ...
... voice of the Ode to a Nightingale ; the Greek figures , in their mute glance , evoke the language of the Urn ; the one is the voice of the bower , the other the voice of the ar- tifact . There is , of course , a third voice in Indolence- ...
Page 35
... voice that utters those words is not the voice of a chorus or of humanity in general but that of a single speaker . Keats's third great decision , having adopted his single speaker , was to minimize the role of that speaker in ...
... voice that utters those words is not the voice of a chorus or of humanity in general but that of a single speaker . Keats's third great decision , having adopted his single speaker , was to minimize the role of that speaker in ...
Page 109
... voice , imitative of the bird's own voice , that he used in Nightingale , and can adopt not the ritualized cultic priest - voice of Psyche but the impersonal voice of the contemplative poet - spectator , gazing at a comprehensive frieze ...
... voice , imitative of the bird's own voice , that he used in Nightingale , and can adopt not the ritualized cultic priest - voice of Psyche but the impersonal voice of the contemplative poet - spectator , gazing at a comprehensive frieze ...
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