The Tragic Sublime of Hazlitt and Keats

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Keats' 'sublime word of Wordsworth' can be exchanged for sublime of Whitmania's sublime words and Emerson. Compared with writers such as Wordsworth and Whitman, keats and slope "can not go anywhere", they do not have the character of Dover born, they have no self. Wordsworth, Whitman, Emerson, and their moral writers are basically "philosophers of good intentions" that provide "self-reliance" of "self" - all American literary textbooks go boldly backwards "as it is itself" : American dream, community, land and border, hero, innocence loss, independence, pursuit of happiness, freedom and authority, social and economic justice, changes in the role of gender

In the letter to his brother, John Keats started to discuss sublime and poet. "With a great poet, beauty consciousness overcomes all other considerations, or deletes all considerations." The ability of Keats to streamline becomes useless in the hands of beauty, and the opened mind is unique. How to participate completely in sublimation. In this letter Keats proposed a concept to redefine the foundation of creative development. William · Shakespeare's genius, to determine the quality of "negative ability" of coins of John Keats. He calls it "uncertainty, mystery, doubt, existence of irrelevant facts and reasons" (519)) Loss of reasonable support Unexperienced experience is beyond the scope of empirical understanding I will make a subject. Therefore, put it in a very high range.