This is a beautifully complex book on John Keats's emotionality. Katrina Brannon's cognitive linguistic analyses reveal the many fine shades of feeling, emotion, sensitivity, mood, and desire in Keats' oeuvre. She explains how and why language, cognition, emotion, and body are all indispensably intertwined in the poetry of one of the greatest romantic poets.
Zoltán Kövecses, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Katrina Brannon has carried out a considerable amount of research, both on linguistics and on poetry and poetics. Her approach is definitely innovative, and the whole book shows a wide-angled knowledge of cognitive theories which enables her to bring out quite vividly the
linguistic, communicative and aesthetic aspects of Keats's poetry. This long-awaited book should become a landmark in poetry and cognition studies.
Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud, Professor of English Stylistics and Translation Studies, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Katrina Brannon's book presents a very clear linguistic analysis of Keats's poems, which draws on cognitive grammar and poetics, figurative language, cognitive science, philosophy, and poetry. It focuses on the expression of emotions and emotional experience in his work. It views language and the body as forms of communication through which metaphor may be expressed and conceptualized.
It is an innovative book as it is currently the only monograph that takes a cognitive approach to Keats's poetry and a welcome addition to the field of poetics and linguistics.
It is a must-read for any scholar interested in Keats, poetics, conceptual metaphor or cognitive grammar.
Wilfrid Rotgé, Professor of Linguistics, Sorbonne Université
