{"title":"Keats and Charles Brown’s Memoir: Was Keats’s Nightingale Really a Thrush?","authors":"Judith Chernaik","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1911182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911182","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Charles Brown’s memoir of Keats, written long after his friend’s death, has attained mythic status. Key events have been reprinted verbatim in every biography since Milnes’s 1848 Life, Letters and Literary Remains and are still taken as gospel by readers and critics. Yet Brown’s famous account of the ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ is demonstrably fictional, in large part his own invention. Brown’s equally iconic account of Keats’s haemorrhage of February 1820 is also highly questionable, coloured by Brown’s need to place himself at the centre of the poet’s final months. If the biographies must now be rewritten, so be it.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"56 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911182","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42943036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What on Google Earth Happened to Miss Cotterell?","authors":"James Kidd","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1911180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911180","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The impetus for this essay is the discovery of three new facts about ‘Miss Cotterell’, one of the passengers who in 1820 sailed to Italy on the Maria Crowther alongside John Keats and Joseph Severn. There is a summary of the research that culminated in finding Miss Cotterell’s christening, death record and first name, before sketching her traditional place in Keats’ biography. We also give a short account of her brother, Charles Cotterell, who lived and worked in Naples. The essay also describes the project that sparked this research in the first place: an attempt to narrate Keats’ ‘Final Voyage’ from London to Rome and his final months at 26 Piazza di Spagna on the online platform Google Earth. Having reviewed the challenges these purgatorial months have posed scholars and biographers over the last 200 years, the essay ends by asking two main questions. What impact (if any) do these facts have on our understanding of Miss Cotterell and also this last act in Keats’ life? And what does it mean to be preserved for two centuries years as a bit-part player in the posthumous life of an artist like John Keats?","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"30 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911180","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46280529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sublimity in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley","authors":"Andrej Gregus","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1911172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911172","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT I present two contrasting perspectives on the ‘sublime’ in Romantic poetry: that of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who viewed sublimity as something from above which is up to the poets to interpret; and that of William Wordsworth, who viewed sublimity as something from within that needs only to be discovered. Despite these philosophical differences, both poets rely on figures of language to convey the paradoxes and circularities that invariably characterize the notion of sublimity. I conclude that this leads to a focalization of language itself as an instrument of the sublime; in effect, the language of sublimity becomes a kind of sublime rhetoric.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"100 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911172","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46418562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sacrosanct Status of the Graves of Keats and Shelley in the Twentieth Century","authors":"N. Stanley-Price","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1911183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911183","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The sacrosanct status of the graves of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley in Rome was acknowledged in formal decisions taken in the 1880s and 1890s. In the twentieth century, their depictions in art and literature differed from those of the previous century. Requests ‘to be buried near the poets’ in this active cemetery have affected Shelley’s grave more than Keats’s. It was rather the latter’s condition following WWII bombing of the cemetery that the press unfairly criticized. Reinforced by regular commemoration ceremonies, the continuing sanctity of the poets’ graves has survived despite various attempts to ‘improve’ them.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"64 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41942345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connection, Consolation, and the Power of Distance in the Letters of John Keats","authors":"Rosie Whitcombe","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1911170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911170","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines how the cultures and forms of letter writing, specifically the practice of sending letters over long distances, allow Keats to generate a unique form of consolation when faced with tragedy. In some letters, distance is a problem Keats must overcome through the shared act of correspondence. When Keats writes across the Atlantic to communicate the news of Tom’s death to George and Georgiana, the distance between Keats and his recipients works to offset the immediacy of grief through the temporal dislocation that takes place between the sending and receiving of a long-distance letter. Conversely, sharing letters over very short distances, as Keats does with Fanny Brawne while he is confined to his half of Wentworth Place, comes to exacerbate his suffering precisely because of the lack of distance between sender and recipient. Keats’s sensitive and self-conscious engagement with distance is played out in the letters he writes while dealing with the aftermath, and threat, of death.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"86 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911170","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43457094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}