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...subject, investigating poet's deep affinity with Celtic world and pursuing his allusions to faerylore in key poems that mark the various stages of his career. Gallant contends that Keats's references to the faerie move beyond the more literary renderings of Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton, drawing instead on "an earlier and more primitive lore of the faerie" (1). Moreover, Keats's interest is not simply aesthetic. As Gallant claims, there were strong contemporary political implications in Keats's choice of embracing a culture that was pre-Roman, pre-Christian and embodied a pre-colonized past: "Celticism in general implied defiance of the present political British status quo" (22). Keats's own marginalized status as a Cockney rhymester in the prevailing literary establishment made him all the more sympathetic to the resistance of the Celts to Roman and English cultural imperialism. "Keats's emphasis on the Celts, Druids, and faerylore in his own poetry," Gallant writes, "was a powerful defense against the depreciation of one's self and one's group by the patrician English ruling group in power"...
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