John Keats' Medical Notebook : Text, Context, and Poems
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| Title: | John Keats' Medical Notebook : Text, Context, and Poems |
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| Description: | John Keats was a trained surgeon who studied at Guy's Hospital, London while simultaneously making his way as a poet. This book focuses attention on an important but hitherto neglected Keats manuscript: the notebook he maintained during this period. Reconstructing the lively medical world that played a formative role in Keats'intellectual and imaginative development, it seeks to show the intriguing connections between Keats'medical knowledge and his greatest poetry. It offers new research on Keats'medical career – including a new edition of his medical Notebook compiled from the manuscript – and recovers the various ways in which Keats'creativity found expression in his two careers of medicine and poetry, enriching both. Topics explored include the ‘hospital poems'Keats wrote at Guy's; the medical milieu of his daily life; his methods of working as revealed by his medical Notebook and other archival sources; and the medical contexts that informed his composition of Endymion and the collection Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820).John Keats'Medical Notebook: Text, Context and Poems reveals how Keats'visceral knowledge of human life, gained during his medical training at Guy's, transformed him into ‘a mighty poet of the human heart'. |
| Authors: | Hrileena Ghosh |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Criticism, interpretation, etc, History, Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc, Medicine in literature, Physicians as authors--England, Literature and medicine--History--19th century, 18.05 English literature, Literature and medicine, Medicine, Physicians as authors |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837) |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | John Keats was a trained surgeon who studied at Guy's Hospital, London while simultaneously making his way as a poet. This book focuses attention on an important but hitherto neglected Keats manuscript: the notebook he maintained during this period. Reconstructing the lively medical world that played a formative role in Keats'intellectual and imaginative development, it seeks to show the intriguing connections between Keats'medical knowledge and his greatest poetry. It offers new research on Keats'medical career – including a new edition of his medical Notebook compiled from the manuscript – and recovers the various ways in which Keats'creativity found expression in his two careers of medicine and poetry, enriching both. Topics explored include the ‘hospital poems'Keats wrote at Guy's; the medical milieu of his daily life; his methods of working as revealed by his medical Notebook and other archival sources; and the medical contexts that informed his composition of Endymion and the collection Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820).John Keats'Medical Notebook: Text, Context and Poems reveals how Keats'visceral knowledge of human life, gained during his medical training at Guy's, transformed him into ‘a mighty poet of the human heart'. |
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| ISBN: | 9781789620610 9781802077025 9781789624724 |
