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By Yashashree Sanap on 06/29/2020

Fled is that Music (Part I)

Enchantment, Imagery and the Aesthetics of Sound in the poetry of John Keats “It’s levi-O-sa, not levio-SA!” This pointed advice offered to Ron by Hermione during their Charms lesson upholds the belief that accurate enunciation of the correct words is crucial for a spell to work its magic; making a mistake in articulation can backfire. […]

By Will Sherwood on 11/03/2020

Oral Enchantment in Keats and Tolkien (Part I)

‘Viewless Wings of Poesy’: Oral Enchantment in Keats and Tolkien John Keats (1795 – 1821) and J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) are not the most likely of pairings when it comes to comparing writers. Keats was deeply concerned with the beauty and pain that life presented in poems such as ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and […]

By Will Sherwood on 11/03/2020

Oral Enchantment in Keats and Tolkien (Part III)

The Synaesthetic Link Synaesthesia is the condition where an individual’s experiences of the senses blur. Sounds are colourful, words have taste, smells have feelings. Poetic synaesthesia has been considered an ‘innovation of the eighteenth (or even nineteenth) century’ that is associated with a ‘specifically Romantic psychology’ (O’Malley, 1957, pp. 397 – 398). The Romantic poets […]