The Meaning of the Orient in Keats's Consciousness

Journal Article

Sadiq, Ebtisam Ali . 1992

• نوع عمل المنشور: Literary Criticism
• الوسوم: Romantic Poetry
• المجلة \ الصحيفة: Journal of King Saud University (Arts)
• رقم العدد: 1
• رقم الإصدار السنوي: 4
• الصفحات: 3-23

مستخلص المنشور

This study discovers more than one Orient in Keats’s consciousness, a historical, fictional, and political one. The variety is a direct result of Keats’s exposure to different sources of knowledge about that world. The amalgamation of the three Oriental realms in Keats’s mind allows fictional elements to overshadow historical knowledge. A geographically fluid Orient in which Greece is included emerges in Keats’s poetry. This concept challenges the dominant view of ancient Greece as the source of Western civilization.