How to Make a Soul: The Wisdom of John Keats by Eric G. Wilson PDF

By Eric G. Wilson

In this cutting edge hybrid of biography, memoir, and feedback, Eric G. Wilson describes how John Keats gave him solace in the course of a bout of psychological disease in spring 2012. whereas on a travel of the imperative websites in Keats’s life—ranging from his London scientific tuition to the small room in Rome the place he died—Wilson chanced on analogies among the poet’s problems and his personal. He was once so much struck via Keats’s enlivening imaginative and prescient of the soul.

For Keats, we don’t own yet relatively make a soul. We do that by way of imaginatively remodeling our agony into empathy towards people and nature alike. monitoring this concept in Keats’s tumultuous but exhilarating lifestyles and paintings, Wilson struggles to ascertain his melancholy anew, wanting to conquer the apathy alienating him from his family.

How to Make a Soul bargains clean views on Keats’s pragmatism, irony, comedy, ethics, and aesthetics, yet is certainly a lyrical occasion of these galvanizing situations while lifestyles springs into art.

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