The Book of the Heart: Poetics, Letters and Life of John Keats (Studies in Imagination) - Softcover

Maradiaga Rodriguez, Oscar Andres

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940262576 ISBN 13: 9780940262577

Publisher: Lindisfarne Books, 1993

Synopsis

Keats stands as a prophetic precursor behind much in today's radical attempts at cultural and self-transformation. But this side of him has been forgotten, or at least was never taken very seriously. He is remembered, if at all, mostly as a Romantic poet whose value and standing was magnified by his early death. Eclipsed by the lushly sensuous affection of his poems, the real meaning of his life and the greatness of his achievement in poetics--how one makes sense out of experience--has been ignored. Now Andres Rodriguez redresses the balance by granting to Keats' Letters their huge intellectual and spiritual labor. In these Letters, one of the most inspiritng spiritual documents of the West, we see the poet forming and transfroming a passionate life of great joys and sorrows into a self of imagination and power. Book of the Heart grasps the core of Keats' poetical practice of life, uncovering the path of knowledge that the Letters reveal. United with Keats in an imaginative union that is as moving as it is true, Rodriguez presents Keats as a hero of the heart, whose deep life experience oriented him in a unique way toward the world of love, suffering, death, and creativity.

About this title

About the Author:

Andres Rodriguez was educated at the University of Iowa (B.A.), Stanford (M.A.), and the University of California, Santa Cruz (Ph.D.). He lives in Kansas City and works as a poet and independent scholar.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0940262576
• ISBN 13: 9780940262577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256