Keats And Romantic Celticism
This is the first book to consider the pervasive influence of period Celticism upon Keats' work, from the Druidism that underlies his unfinished epics to the Celtic-derived folklore that his poetry draws upon. Christine Gallant shows that more than two hundred and fifty traditional folklore motifs of the faerie fill his major poems, as well as minor epistolary ones that have been critically neglected.
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The faeries, demons, and spirits of Celtic provenance that wend through the work of British poet John Keats (1795-1821), were not born of the usual literary sources such as Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, says Gallant (English literature, Georgia State U.) but from an earlier and more primitive lore. She finds their presence to be accompanied by the centuries-old feeling of dread at the menace mixed with fascination by their timeless allure. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1The evidence for Celticism in Keats12Romantic Celticism in context223Keats as bard374The native muse635Faery lands forlorn836Privileging the Celtic114
