Author： Thomson Heidi
Publisher： Maney Publishing
ISSN： 0952-4142
Source： The Keats-Shelley Review, Vol.25, Iss.2, 2011-09, pp. : 160-174
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Abstract
Keats's letters express the poet's sensitivity to the physical separation between himself and his correspondents, the desire to bridge that separation by various rhetorical figurations of closeness and ongoing connections between himself and his correspondents. The letters are characterized by a poignant awareness of the physical connotations of letters and their writers, by the wish for maintaining an ongoing conversation in writing, and by the need for a reciprocal imaginative effort to accommodate the individual identity of the correspondents. These epistolary characteristics are commensurate with Keats's desire to net truth; Keats's letters bear out the interactive, non-teleological, intensely physical dimensions of his poetics.
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