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Keats: Sonnets and Odes
| Keats's sonnets and odes are among the glories of English poetry, although he died believing he would not be remembered as a great poet, having never finished an epic poem (or at least a great one). In our era of the lyric meditation, what Keats may have considered "minor" work we read now as uncannily "modern" masterpieces. For the first two sessions, we will discuss the following sonnets: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, On the Grasshopper and the Cricket, On Seeing the Elgin Marbles, When I Have Fears, O Thou Whose Face Hath Felt the Winter's Wind, To Sleep, and Bright Star. For the next four sessions, we will discuss the following odes: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on Melancholy, and To Autumn. We will end by discussing Keats's fragment, This Living Hand. Any complete or selected Keats volume should have all of these poems. We will read individual poems closely, not place them in historical or biographical contexts, but anyone joining us with those contexts in mind will likely gain deeper pleasures from the poems and from our conversations. Therefore, participants are strongly encouraged to read a biography of Keats before our first meeting--W. Jackson Bate's being the best (that I've read). Six weeks. Thursday, September 20 - Thursday, October 25, from 7:00-9:00. $200 ($180 members)
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