“[T]hen the veil was rent”: Homeric Insight and the Material Sublime
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John Keats, Homer, Material Sublime, Poetic Insight, Poetry, RomanticismAbstract
This essay examines Keats’s poem ‘To Homer’ in order to understand more fully Keats’s conception of poetic insight, and how this relates to the “material sublime”.Downloads
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