{"product_id":"keatss-anatomy-of-melancholy-robert-white-9781474480468","title":"Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA detailed study of John Keats's classic volume of poetry published in 1820 considered in the light of the history of melancholy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFirst, book-length critical study of John Keats's collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eLamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1820)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the anthology as a poetically and thematically unified collection, instead of the more usual method of analyzing the poems in chronological order of writing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProposes that the main theme running through the volume is melancholy, a very capacious medical category extending back to ancient Greco-Roman writers, through the Renaissance, and the subject of literary cults in the Romantic age\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first detailed study of Keats's markings and annotations on his copy of Robert Burton's \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy of Melancholy \u003c\/i\u003e(1621) which was his favourite book during 1819 when he was writing the poems\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book examines John Keats's immensely important collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eLamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1820), and is published in the volume's bicentenary. It analyses the collection as an authorially organised and multi-dimensionally unified volume rather than as a collection of occasional poems. R. S. White argues that a guiding theme behind the 1820 volume is the persistent emphasis on different types of melancholy, an ancient, all-consuming medical condition and literary preoccupation in Renaissance and Romantic poetry. Melancholy was a lifelong interest of Keats's, touching on his medical training, his temperament and his delighted reading in 1819 of Burton's \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy of Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474480462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474480468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d","brand":"Robert White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130066301183,"sku":"9781474480468","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c8a0c6c7-096c-4a61-874d-bbb96d5de6f4.jpg?v=1687467374","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/keatss-anatomy-of-melancholy-robert-white-9781474480468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}