Reviews for Keats and the Russian poets

The average rating for Keats and the Russian poets based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-23 00:00:00 Rian van Heerden This book is awesome and I can't believe my library had it! It is so out of print and so hard to find that you'd think based on the online results that it never existed at all. Which is too bad, because it's not like there are a lot of critical works specifically handling Whitman AND Dickinson only. Although I didn't finish this one either (dang library renewal limits!), I read half and skimmed the rest, and found the analysis to be detailed and strong. The main argument is that Whitman and Dickinson both, following Emerson's lead, demonstrated a new and remarkably similar framework of Individualism, Self, and Identity which was important and pivotal in America's development thereafter, but they did so through their poetry in very different ways: Whitman in a public and all-inclusive way, and Dickinson in a private and isolated manner. Both are difficult to read, me being new to both poets' work, and both write in metaphor; so I've decided this will be a work in progress, to become acquainted with them. I think getting to know Emerson and Thoreau will be much easier.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-03-18 00:00:00 Edwin Wiese Una de las prosas que sé que más vivamente quedarán en mi memoria (junto con la de Larrea, Woolf, Henry James, etc.), unas memorias lúcidas y luminosas. El placer de la más exquisita lectura.