Keats's Odes by Anahid Nersessian - 9780226762678

Name: Keats's Odes by Anahid Nersessian - 9780226762678
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Keats's OdesA Lover's Discourse\nAuthor(s): Anahid Nersessian\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226762678, 978-0226762678\nSynopsis\n\""When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over--like this world, and some of the people in it.\"" In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them--\""Ode to a Nightingale,\"" \""To Autumn\""--are among the most celebrated poems in the English language. Anahid Nersessian here collects and elucidates each of the odes and offers a meditative, personal essay in response to each, revealing why these poems still have so much to say to us, especially in a time of ongoing political crisis. Her Keats is an unflinching antagonist of modern life--of capitalism, of the British Empire, of the destruction of the planet--as well as a passionate idealist for whom every poem is a lov.