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Routledge Research in Cognitive Humanities LANGUAGE, COGNITION, AND EMOTION IN KEATS’S POETRY Katrina Brannon This is a beautifully complex book on John Keats’s emotionality. Katrina Brannon’s cognitive linguistic analyses reveal the many fne shades of feel- ing, 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, Hungary Katrina Brannon has carried out a considerable amount of research, both on linguistics and on poetry and poetics. Her approach is defnitely innovative, and the whole book shows a wide-angled knowledge of cognitive theories which enables her to bring out quite vividly the linguistic, communi- cative, and esthetic 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, France Katrina Brannon’s book presents a very clear linguistic analysis of Keats’s poems, which draws on cognitive grammar and poetics, fgurative 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 feld 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, France Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats’s Poetry Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats’s Poetry applies an innovative cognitive linguistic approach to the poetry of John Keats, the frst of its kind to employ a cognitive-based framework to explore the expression and articulation of emotion in his work. Brannon adopts an embodied perspective to emotion, rooted in cognitive linguistics, cognitive grammar, and cognitive poetics but also works from fgurative language and stylistics, in examining a selection of Keats’s poems. This approach allows for a close interrogation of the texts themselves but also the languages that compose them, comprising lexical and grammatical elements, which, when taken together, bring out the emotional saliency of Keatsian poetry. While revealing fresh insights into the work of John Keats, the book also sheds further light on the importance of cognitive approaches to poetic and grammatical analyses and how both language and the body can serve as forms of communication through which metaphors can be expressed and contextualized. This volume will appeal to students and scholars interested in cognitive linguistics, fgurative language, emotion studies, cognitive science, and Anglophone poetry. Katrina Brannon is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes, France. Her research interests include cognitive grammar, embodied emotion, sensorial expression, cognitive poetics and stylistics, conceptual metaphor theory, esthetics, and translation. Routledge Research in Cognitive Humanities Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats’s Poetry Katrina Brannon Narrative, Perception, and the Embodied Mind: Towards a Neuro-narratology Towards a Neuro-narratology Lilla Farmasi For more information about this series, please visit: https://www .routledge .com /Routledge -Research -in -Cognitive -Humanities/ book -series/ RRCH Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats’s Poetry Katrina Brannon First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 Katrina Brannon The right of Katrina Brannon to be identifed as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifcation and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Brannon, Katrina, author. Title: Language, cognition, and emotion in Keats’s poetry / Katrina Brannon. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Series: Routledge research in cognitive humanities | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifers: LCCN 2022013546 | ISBN 9781032230917 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032230924 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003275626 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Keats, John, 1795-1821--Literary style. | Emotions in literature. | Cognition in literature. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. Classifcation: LCC PR4838.S8 K43 2023 | DDC 821/.7--dc23/ eng/20220425 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022013546 ISBN: 978-1-032-23091-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-23092-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-27562-6 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003275626 Typeset in Sabon by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India To the women of my life: my eyes, my hands, my feet, my heart. Contents Foreword xii Acknowledgments xiv 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Foundational Framework: Presentation 1 1.2 The Principal Angles of a Cognitive Approach to Keatsian Poetry 8 1.3 Keats the Poet 11 1.4 Structural Logic of the Book 13 1.5 O utline and Argumentative Logic 15 Notes 17 2 Cognitive Approaches to Poetry 19 2.1 M ethodological Orientation: Perspectives 19 2.2 C ognitive Grammar 19 2.3 P oetic Grammar, Cognitive Poetics 22 2.4 C onceptual Metaphor and Metonymy 24 2.5 P oetic Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy 25 2.6 C onceptual Metaphor and Emotion 29 2.7 F orce-Dynamics and Causality 30 2.8 E mbodied Emotion 31 2.9 C onclusion 32 Notes 33