Black Gates and Fiery Galleries: Eastern Architecture in The Fall of Hyperion.(John Keats)(Critical Essay)

From: Studies in Romanticism | Date: June 22, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

ACCORDING TO RECENT DISCUSSIONS, KEATS'S HYPERION FRAGMENTS draw on a historiography of style that opens with the ancient sublimities of Egypt and moves on to the lucent beauties of Greece and Rome. This argument is based largely on descriptions of the Titans which allude to Egyptian sculpture, thus recasting the war with the classical Gods as an "international event" pitting the west against a "prototypical Orient."(1) The identification of the Titans with Egypt is also grounded in Keats's biography; Egyptian sculptures were displayed in the British Museum next to the Elgin ...

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