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- Title
THE FAILED READER: KEATS'S "BRAIN-SICK" ENDYMION.
- Authors
Cappeluti, Jo.-Anne
- Abstract
John Keatss subject in Endymion is the imagination operating on the failed reader: the neutral or adolescent intellect that ultimately denies the transcendence it experiences; failing to mature, willfully remaining adolescent. Keats's presentation of Endymion as "brain-sick" in this respect is thus a radical reinvention of the perpetually youthful Endymion in the Greek myth. Keats is keenly aware, moreover, of the built-in failure of his poem, a failure that remains true today; he cannot make readers recognize Endymion's adolescent intellect as adolescent, much less recognize it as their own failed thinking.
- Subjects
ENDYMION (Greek mythology); KEATSS, John; POETS; GREEK mythology; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Philosophy & Literature, 2012, Vol 36, Issue 1, p96
- ISSN
0190-0013
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/phl.2012.0015