The Patrick J. Keane NC Archive
Patrick J. Keane is Professor Emeritus of Le Moyne College and a Contributing Editor at Numéro Cinq. Though he has written on a wide range of topics, his areas of special interest have been 19th and 20th-century poetry in the Romantic tradition; Irish literature and history; the interactions of literature with philosophic, religious, and political thinking; the impact of Nietzsche on certain 20th century writers; and, most recently, Transatlantic studies, exploring the influence of German Idealist philosophy and British Romanticism on American writers. His books include William Butler Yeats: Contemporary Studies in Literature (1973), A Wild Civility: Interactions in the Poetry and Thought of Robert Graves (1980), Yeats’s Interactions with Tradition (1987), Terrible Beauty: Yeats, Joyce, Ireland and the Myth of the Devouring Female (1988), Coleridge’s Submerged Politics (1994), Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic “Light of All Our Day” (2003), and Emily Dickinson’s Approving God: Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering (2007).
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Of Beginnings and Endings: Huck Finn and Tom Eliot
Emerson and Self-Reliance: Paradoxical Idea, Ambiguous Legacy
Blake, Nietzsche, Wilde, and Yeats: Contraries, Anti-Selves, and the Truth of Masks
Proto-Feminist, Trouble-Making Rebel: Hawthorne, a “Remarkable Case” & the Genesis of Hester Prynne
Secretariat: A Personal Memoir
A Great Labyrinth: The Winding Stair, Maud Gonne, and a Quest for the Quintessential Yeats
Inquiring Spirit: My Friend, Jim Cerasoli (1938-2015)
A Good Time Was Had by Some: On Assigning & Relishing the Eternal Punishment of Others
I Cried to Dream Again: Song — Maura Kennedy | Introduced by Patrick J. Keane
The Pope, Charlie Hebdo, and Islamist Terrorism
Natural Supernaturalism: Emily Dickinson’s Variations on the Romantic Theme of an Earthly Paradise
The Alexander Debate and the Murderous Innocence of Bucephalus: Fiction
“Second Thoughts” in Seamus Heaney’s North: From “Antaeus” to “Hercules and Antaeus” to “Exposure”
Identity and Difference: Coleridge and Defoe, Crusoe and Friday, Prospero and Caliban
Keats and Identity: The Chameleon in the Crucible
On Looking Into and Beyond the Wordsworths’ Daffodils: An Intrinsic and Contextual Reading
The Wordsworthian Sources of Emersonian “Hope” and “Light”
Mark Twain, Nietzsche, and Terrible Truths that can Set Us Free
The Ambiguous Legacy of Nietzsche
Mountain Visions and Imaginative Usurpations
The Senses of an Ending: The Grapes of Wrath, Novel and Film
Leaving the Zoo: A Fictional Memoir
Eternal Recurrence: The Permanent Relevance of William Butler Yeats’s The Second Coming
Convergences: Memories Involving The Waste Land Manuscript
Making the Void Fruitful: W. B. Yeats as Spiritual Seeker and Romantic Poet
Wow! You have a lot of essays.
yes indeed: Wow! You have a lot of essays.