Keats’ Sufi Speaker Jumps Back to Reality: An Evaluation of “Ode to Nightingale”
British Journal of Arts and Humanities July 7, 2022
Sufism predates Romanticism by over 900 years and has an arresting similarity with British Romanticism and American transcendentalism. The faith in an immortal afterlife, the consideration of death as a gateway to eternity, and the belief in the unity of the creator and the creation make the two philosophical genres very close to each other. John Keats, being one of the greatest British...
DOI: 10.34104/bjah.0220970106 (opens in new tab)
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