This article explores the notions of flotsam, jetsam and hybridity in John Keats’s poetry in order to provide a critical reading informed by posthumanist theories, and, more specifically, Donna Haraway’s cyborg.)
The Beating Art of Keats’s Surgical Poetics.Études Anglaises 64:2 (2011): 182-96. (Keats always went back to his medical readings as a unique rapprochement between medicine and poetry which, in British Romanticism, is specific to him.)
untimely poetand a political one.)
This meditative essay uses the metaphor of the patagium, the unique fold of skin that stretches between the limbs of a bat, as a way to conceptualize John Clare’s and John Keats’s engagement with ancient poetic traditions and Romantic theories of mind.)
concerted effort to offer systematic close readings and literary analyses of the letters.) <http://keatslettersproject.com>
Keats regarded both poetic material and the mental faculties deployed in the creation of poetry as somatically embodied and that through this the representational quality of the poetic medium, language, is elided.)
Keats saw passivity as an embodied, and even physically demanding, attitude, that could prompt the interest and attention of others.)
Shiftiness in Keats’s ‘Ode on Indolence’.Romanticism, 23.1 (2017): 27-37. (Argues that the poem with
its wordplay, ambiguity and structural instability . . . presents an unsettling, more mischievous side of Negative Capability.)
Invoking Keats.Keats-Shelley Journal 67 (2018): 108-21. (This essay
pose[s] the question of what animates [ . . . the] desire to welcome Keats the person into a poem.)
how, for Keats, human identity emerges from the imagination’s necessarily incomplete attempts to comprehend the fullness of its historical experience.)
This article argues that John Keats’s 1817 first volume Poems evinces a commitment to occasionalism that suffuses, and indeed defines, Keats’s work.)
Keats’s attention to the fine workings of sensory imagery creates cognitive effects that go beyond his famed synesthesia.)
within the framework of materialist possibility [. . .]. Further discussion is offered regarding Romantic philosophies of matter and ideals, readdressing their implications on literary aesthetics.)
early letters present unequivocal testimony that he understands friendship not as an escape from the painful world [. . .] but as one important way of coming to terms with it.)
Constructing Keats.Keats-Shelley Journal 67 (2018): 122-139. (A wonderfully contextualizing essay that surveys
the extant swaths of energy, vibrations, and gravitational fields that connect what little we know, or can surmise, about publication of Keats’s first book.)
Keats and Coleridge.In Coleridge, Keats, and the Imagination: Romanticism and Adam’s Dream. Ed. J. Robert Barth and John Mahoney. Columbia: U. of Missouri P., 1990.
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Blank, G. Kim. “Selected Criticism about Keats: 1. Selected Recent; 2. Selected General.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.8 , last modified 18th January 2021. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/criticism.html.