Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Keats and Romantic Celticism

  • Book
  • © 2005

Overview

Authors:
  1. Christine Gallant
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. The Evidence for Celticism in Keats

    • Christine Gallant
    Pages 1-21

  3. Romantic Celticism in Context

    • Christine Gallant
    Pages 22-36

  4. Keats as Bard

    • Christine Gallant
    Pages 37-62

  5. The Native Muse

    • Christine Gallant
    Pages 63-82

  6. Faery Lands Forlorn

    • Christine Gallant
    Pages 83-113

  7. Privileging the Celtic

    • Christine Gallant
    Pages 114-136

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 137-174
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The Celtic Revival began more than a century before Yeats and the Irish Literary Renaissance. Keats and Romantic Celtism is the first book to consider the pervasive influence of period Celticism upon Keats's 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.

Reviews

'Gallant's Keats and Romantic Celticism offers the first full-length study of the subject, investigating the poet's deep affinity with the Celtic world and pursuing his allusions to faerylore in key poems that mark the various stages of his career.' - Grant F. Scott, The Wordsworth Circle

'Her major achievement, however, lies in rereadings of the Hyperion poems within the context of the early Romantic recovery of the Celtic background that was to obsess Keats's later followers, and none more so than W.B. Yeats. As such, this is a valuable resource that pays further testament to this year's interest in matters of complex influence.' - The Year's Work in English Studies

About the author

CHRISTINE GALLANT is Professor of English Literature at Georgia State University. Her previous books are Tabooed Jung: Marginality as Power (1996); Shelley's Ambivalence (1989); Coleridge's Theory of Imagination Today (editor, 1989) and Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos (1978).

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation