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McDowell, Stacey (2017) Shiftiness in Keats's ‘Ode on Indolence’. Romanticism: the journal of romantic culture and criticism, 23 (1). pp. 27-37. doi:10.3366/rom.2017.0304 ISSN 1354-991X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2017.0304
Abstract
This essay identifies a kind of shiftiness at work in Keats's ‘Ode on Indolence’. Apparent both in the poem's depiction of indolence as a wavering between mind states, and in its wordplay, ambiguity and structural instability, this shifty quality presents an unsettling, more mischievous side of Negative Capability. This quality may account, too, for the peculiar textual instability of the ode, which has seen the order of its stanzas variously rearranged by critics and editors over the course of its bibliographical history. The essay concludes by considering the indolence of the poem's title in relation to a pun contained in its epigraph, which raises questions about what drives poetic creativity and considers the distinction between the labour of professional authorship versus ideas about inspiration and organic composition.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Criticism and interpretation, Laziness -- Poetry, Laziness in literature , Odes, English -- Criticism and interpretation, Stanzas | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Romanticism: the journal of romantic culture and criticism | ||||||
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1354-991X | ||||||
| Official Date: | March 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 23 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 27-37 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.3366/rom.2017.0304 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Romanticism: the journal of romantic culture and criticism. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2017.0304 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 January 2020 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 January 2020 |
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