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‘The poetry of earth is never dead’: Meteorology and Myth in Keats’s Grasshopper Sonnet
Keats’s 1816 competition sonnet ‘On the Grasshopper and Cricket’ is easily dismissed as juvenilia, but when read with an eye to his interest in Greek mythology, the poem rewards further attention. In particular, the myth of Tithonus, who gained eternal life without eternal youth and was transformed into either a grasshopper or cricket, situates Keats’s immortal ‘poetry of earth’ in an ambivalent context that, in turn, makes sense of otherwise curiously neutral language. This ambivalent framing also encourages a new reading of the poem as a product of 1816, ‘the year without a summer’, building a case for the sonnet as an example of what Nikki Hessell has called Keats’s ‘botany of absence’ in the 1817 Poems volume more broadly.
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The most distinguished scholarly journal of its kind edited and published in Britain, Romanticism offers a forum for the flourishing diversity of Romantic studies today. Focusing on the period 1750-1850, it publishes critical, historical, textual and bibliographical essays prepared to the highest scholarly standards, reflecting the full range of current methodological and theoretical debate. With an extensive reviews section, Romanticism constitutes a vital international arena for scholarly debate in this liveliest field of literary studies.