Essays on Keats and Other Authors

The book includes these essays: "Negative Capability: John Keats’s Negotiation between Tradition and His Individual Talent"; "'Non horrebitis admovere nobis': Encountering Catullus in the Chinese Context"; "Four Versions of the Orpheus-Eurydice Myth: Virgil, Ovid, Rilke and Milosz"; "Oscillating Between Doubt and Belief: Macbeth’s Ambivalent Attitude toward Fate"; "Here and the Beyond: Self-limitation and Self-fulfillment in The Rainbow"; "The Vision of the Orphic Poet in Emerson’s 'Merlin.'"

Li Yongyi is Professor of English at Chongqing University. He was a 2012–2013 Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the University of Washington. His major fields of scholarship include Anglo-American modern poetry, classical Roman poetry, and classical Chinese poetry. He has translated eighteen books into Chinese from English, French and Latin.