John Keats and the Medical Imagination
This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats''s medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his ''busy time'' at Guy''s Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy''s and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats''s strange oxymoronic poe...
This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats''s medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his ''busy time'' at Guy''s Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy''s and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats''s strange oxymoronic poe...