Article: Keats's Orientalism.(John Keats)

EDWARD SAID ARGUES IN CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM THAT "IDEAS SUGgesting, often ideologically implementing, imperial rule" dominate nineteenth century European art and literature.(1) This orientalist narrative, though acknowledged, is not seen as dominating the poetry or informing the poetics of Keats, a lack of emphasis that may be due to a later effect of an earlier marginalization of a "political" Keats. Jerome McGann has said, for instance, that the 1820 volume is a reactionary book in which Keats seeks to "dissolve social and political conflicts in the mediations of art and beauty" with "an eye to attracting the favorable attention of the public ... and to allay ...

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