ENGL-2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Animal Sacrifice, Leigh Hunt, Foster Care
4 Oct 2016
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Literary life: only wrote 54 poems in 3 slim volumes, immersed himself into romantic literary circles, guidance from charles cowden clarke and later radical leigh hunt (an association damaging to keats in view of critics) Endymion and hyperion: two book length poems, endymion: epic allegorical quest for feminine counterpart, hyperion: epic mimicking milton"s great style. Abandoned it as derivative; feared adapting milton"s style. Criticism of endymion and hyperion: these two poems were crushed by powerful tory critics, leading to myth that critics killed the sensitive keats, tories vs. whigs. Conservative vs. reformer: shelley furthered the myth by underscoring it in his elegiac poem to keats, adionas, apocryphal- something everyone thinks is true, but is not true. Could mean bride is frozen on the urn. Still as in not yet ravished: the wedding is forever delayed: duality: two ways of looking at the urn, they are conflicting but both are true, speaker asks many questions.
