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Sage, humanist, and physician to all men: Keats and Romantic Conceptualisations of the Poet

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Meiko O'Halloran

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Abstract

In the aftermath of the French Revolution which failed to give birth to a hoped-for new egalitarian age in Britain, radically-minded poets were forced to confront the question of what their role was in a post-Revolutionary age. This article examines Keats’s distinctive contribution to the debates of his day by exploring his crafting of the figure of the poet in Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. What do Keats's sympathetic portraits of the fallen Titans and the unrealised perfection of Apollo have to tell us about his conceptions of the poet? I begin by looking back to influential models of the epic poet by Dante, Milton, and Macpherson which Keats and his contemporaries inherited, before examining the extraordinary debate with Moneta in The Fall of Hyperion in which the poet-narrator defends the poet as a sage, / A humanist, physician to all men', only to destabilise his own claim to the title.


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Author(s): O'Halloran M

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Romanticism

Year: 2016

Volume: 22

Issue: 2

Pages: 177-190

Print publication date: 01/07/2016

Online publication date: 23/06/2016

Acceptance date: 11/01/2016

ISSN (print): 1354-991X

ISSN (electronic): 1750-0192

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0273

DOI: 10.3366/rom.2016.0273


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