This book explores John Keats’s reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers. It also examines later writers’ engagements with Keats’s poetry. Finally, the book honors the distinguished Keats scholar Jack Stillinger and includes an essay surveying his career as well as a bibliography of his major publications. The first section of the volume, “Theorizing Keats’s Reading, ” contains four essays that identify major patterns in the poet’s reading habits and responses to other works. The next section, “Keats’s Reading, ” consists of six essays that examine Keats’s work in relation to specific earlier authors and texts. The four essays in the third section, “Reading Keats, ” consider how Keats’s poetry influenced the work of later writers and became embedded in British and American literary traditions. The final section of the book, “Contemporary Poetic Responses, ” features three scholar-poets who, in poetry and/or prose commentary, discuss and exemplify Keats’s impact on their work.
Table of Content
1. Introduction.- 2. Keats the Reader.- 3. Keats’s Metaphor of Reading.- 4. Keats’s Translational Poetics.- 5. Rereading Keats’s Reading in the Digital Realm.- 6.
“Jack a Lanthern” Verse: Of Pots and Precursors and Poetic Value in Isabella.- 7. Keats Reading Chaucer: Troilus and Arrested Time in The Eve of St. Agnes.- 8. Keats’s Confrontation with Nothingness in “When I Have Fears” and Other Poems.- 9. Seeing Spots: Milton, Addison, Keats, and the Emergence of the Sublime Pathetic.- 10. Keats as a Reader of Novels.- 11. Late Reading: John Clare and John Keats.- 12. Keats’s Formal Legacy and the Victorians.- 13. “A Season Changes Color to No End”: Keats’s “To Autumn, ” Wallace Stevens, and the Post-Romantic Imagination.- 14. Modern Experimental Poets Reading Keats: “Misers of Sound and Syllable”.- 15. The Chameleon Poet.- 16. Writing on Keats, Writing with Keats: Ghostlier Intonations, Marginalia, and Epigraphs Among Friends—Or, My Keats.- 17. Poems
About the author
Beth Lau is Professor of English Emerita at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She has published numerous studies of Keats’s books, reading, and marginalia, including Keats’s Reading of the Romantic Poets (1991) and Keats’s Paradise Lost (1998). Her other research interests include Jane Austen and cognitive-evolutionary approaches to literature.Greg Kucich is Professor of English and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His publications include Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism (Penn State UP 1991) and numerous books and articles on the Keats-Hunt Circle, Romantic-era drama, and Romantic-era women writers.
Daniel Johnson is English; Digital Humanities; and Film, Television, and Theatre Librarian at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He has published articles on long eighteenth-century literature and digital humanities. He also co-edited (with Beth Lau and Greg Kucich) a digital edition of Keats’s annotated copy of Paradise Lost.
More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
67,973 Ebooks in this category
