John Keats

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Presents biographical information about poet John Keats, and provides thematic analyses and a selection of critical views on five of his poems. Has an introduction by Harold Bloom. Biography of John Keats Introduction to the Ode Thematic analysis of "Ode on a Grecian urn" Critical views on "Ode on a Grecian urn." Thomas H. Schmid on Keats's poetic concerns ; Thomas C. Kennedy on the tension between poem and work of art ; Jason Mauro on audience participation in the act of reading ; Geraldine Friedman on the relationships between speaker, reader, and text ; Adam Roberts on the imaginative urn ; Aileen Ward on the relationship between the visual arts and poetry Thematic analysis of "The eve of St. Agnes" Critical views on "The eve of St. Agnes." Gary Farnell on paganism and the nature of fantasy ; Jacqueline Banerjee on Shakespeare's ill-fated lovers and the poem ; Andrew J. Bennett on seeing and unseeing ; John Collick on desire in the poem ; Karen J. Harvey on Merlin and the Lady of the lake Thematic analysis of "Ode to a nightingale" Critical views on "Ode to a nightingale." Harold Bloom on emerging attitudes toward death ; Earl R. Wasserman on the relationship between poet and nightingale ; Cynthia Chase on the gesture of naming flowers ; Karl P. Wentersdorf on the literary history of nightingales ; Fred V. Randel on the problematic nature of joy in the poem ; James O'Rourke on the movement from daylight into darkness ; Paul D. Sheats on Keats's imaginative contribution to a classical genre Thematic analysis of "To autumn" Critical views on "To autumn." Hermione de Almeida on the tensions of the season ; Mark Bracher on abundance and fulfillment ; Walter Jackson Bate on the literary perfection of the poem ; Donald Pearce on disturbance and interruption in the poem ; Patrick Swinden on the season of achievement in the poem ; Juhani Rudanko on the never-ending process of nature and human life Thematic analysis of "La belle dame sans merci" Critical views on "La belle dame sans merci." Mervyn Nicholson on the figure of the tricky female in the poem ; Jane Rabb Cohen on Keats's reworking of a literary convention ; Grant T. Webster on the influence of the Inferno ; Judith Weissman on the nature of language in the poem ; Theresa M. Kelley on Keats and the critics