Sensation and Poetry:Keats's Sensualist Conception of Poetics
Keats's sensualist conception of poetics is the focus of this article.Keats follows closely the British empiricist tradition of philosophy,and his sensualism is established by the consideration of sensation as the sole origin of truth.Based upon the above assumption,sensualism is applied to the evaluation of poetry,and Keats's sensualist conception of poetics is established by the con-sideration of sensation as the sole medium of poetical creation and of esthetic appreciation as the final end.Sensualist conception of poetics is taken by Keats as the fundamental principle,on the one hand,to dispute against the Classicist poetical position in the 18th-Century Britain,and,on the other,to affirm the sensualist performances in the poetry of the British poets in the tradition of Renaissance.In addition,the intensive sensualist characteristics in the poems of Keats,as re-flected in the choices of poetical diction and in the employment of synaesthesia,shows the appli-cation of Keats's sensualist conception of poetics to the writing of his poems.In general,sensual-ism dominates over Keats's poetical conception,and is embodied in the construction of the con-ceptual system,in the evaluation of poetry and in the writing of poems.
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