Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Master's Theses Theses and Dissertations 1960 The Critical Theory of John Keats Rita Claire Callan Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Callan, Rita Claire, "The Critical Theory of John Keats" (1960). Master's Theses. 1553. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/1553 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1960 Rita Claire Callan THE CRITICAL THEORY or JOHN KEATS by Rita Claire Callan A Thesis Submitted to the Faoulty ot the Graduate Sohool of Loyola University in Partial Pulfillment of the Requirements tor the Degree of Master of Arts June 1960 LIFE Rita Claire Callan, n!£ Wegner, was born in Chicago, Illinois, August 6, 1930. She was graduated from the Aoademy of Ou.r Lady, Chioago, Illinois, June. 1948, and trom the University of Illinois, June, 1953, with the degree of Baohelor of Science. From 1953 to 1957 the author worked as an ocoupational therapist at the Chicago Department of Welfare Convalesoent Home and the Veteran's Administration Researoh Hospital, Chicago. Illinois. She began her graduate studies at Loyola University in February, 1953. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page I. INTRODUCTION • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 Growing interest in Keats's philosophy ot art- Disagreement among critics--Method of this study- Character of Keats's letters.