Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

Selected Criticism about Keats

  1. Selected Recent
  2. Selected General

1. Selected Recent Criticism (2010-)

  • Anselmo, Anna. “Posthuman Keats: Poetry as Assemblage.” Altre Modernità (January 2020): 46-58. (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.)
  • Bari, Shahidha Kazi. Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations. London: Routledge, 2011.
  • Barnard, John. Keats’s Metaphors of Reading, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 43-54. (Explores what Keats’s metaphors for reading tell us about how he experiences reading poetry, particularly through the auditory imagination.)
  • Barnard, John. What Letters did Keats take to Rome? Keats-Shelley Journal 64 (2015): 72-91.
  • Barnard, John. Keats’s ‘Forebodings’: Margate, Spring 1817, and After. Romanticism 21.1 (2015): 1-13. (Profitably analyses and contextualizes Keats’s sometimes morbid, depressive temperament.)
  • Barry, Annabel. ‘—My Brother Tom is Much Improved—’: The Suffering Body at the Ends of Keats’s Letters and Poems. Keats-Shelley Review 34:2 (2020): 118-37. (Tom’s suffering is [. . .] what motivates Keats’s to write in the first place – it is the origin of his poetic imagination and the conclusion of his [Keats’s] poetic project.)
  • Bate, Jonathan. Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. HarperCollins, 2021. (From an official blurb: the two [Keats and Fitzgerald] lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence.)
  • Bates, Brian. (2022) Hyperion’s Asterisks: Seeing Stars & Star Power. European Romantic Review 33:2 (2022): 267-282. (Argues that the asterisks at the end of Hyperion in the 1820 collection connect the potential of Keats’s unfinished poem with legends of star poets and promote his rising star power in the spectacular light of Apollo’s transformation into the sun god of poetry.)
  • Bentley, Paul. Keats’s Odes, Socratic Irony, and Regency Reviewers. Keats-Shelley Journal 62 (2013): 114-132.
  • Bertonèche, Caroline. 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.)
  • Bewell, Alan. Keats’s Translational Poetics, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 55-75. (Explores Keats’s complex understanding of the translational dimensions of poetry in Isabella, a poem that established the framework of much of his later work.)
  • Blank, G. Kim. The Case of John Keats in Shanklin; Or, When is a Poet’s Cottage Not a Poet’s Cottage? The Fortnightly Review, 28 October 2021. (Suggests that the original Keats Cottage in Shanklin might not in fact exist.)
  • Blank, G. Kim. Negative Capability: Review of Brian Rejack and Michael Theune, eds., Keats’s Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives. The Wordsworth Circle 50:4 (2019): 442-49.
  • Brown, Marshall. The Voice of the Sod: Keats’s Nightingale from Below. Essays in Romanticism 30:1 (2023): 41-54. (Organizationally . . . the Nightingale Ode is about Keats’s frustration at the task of ode-writing; he begins unsure of himself and seeking definition.)
  • Burkett, Andrew. ‘Where beats the human heart’: Jean-Nicolas Corvisart’s Treatise on Diseases of the Heart and John Keats’s Hyperion Poems. European Romantic Review 33:2 (2022): 247-265.
  • Camarda, Julie. Keats’s Chameleon Poetics, Or, the Natural History of ‘Ode to a Nightingale’. Keats-Shelley Journal 68 (2019): 40-71.
  • Carman, Colin. Lacan, Keats, and ‘Noble Animal Man’, in Lacan and Romanticism, ed. Daniela Garofalo and David Sigler. SUNY Press, 2019, 37-59. (On Keats, Lacan, and ecocriticism.)
  • Chirico, Paul. Late Reading: John Clare and John Keats, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 219-238. (Examines the intense textual sympathy that characterizes Clare’s keen, energetic, and discerning readings of Keats.)
  • Comet, Noah. ‘Later Flowers for the Bees’: Keats and Pollination. Romanticism 26.1 (April 2020): 13-22. (Proposes that Keats’s bee imagery may have been informed by the idea of insect pollination, an idea that was widely socialised if as yet unorthodox in his time . . . [this has] social, sexual, and political implications.)
  • Cronin, Richard. Keats and the Double Life of Poetry. Romanticism 22.2 (July 2016): 147-56. (Nicely complicates the idea of Keats as a political poet.)
  • Chernaik, Judith. Keats and Charles Brown’s Memoir: Was Keats’s Nightingale Really a Thrush? The Keats-Shelley Review 35:1 (2021): 56-63. (Profitably questions the credibility of Brown’s account of the compositional circumstances of Keats’s poem, as well Brown’s account of Keats’s February 1820 haemorrhage.)
  • Darcy, Jane. Primrose Island: Keats and the Isle of Wight. Keats-Shelley Review 32:1 (2018): 28-46.
  • Dempsey, Sean. ‘Blank Splendour’: Keats, Romantic Visuality, and Wonder. Studies in Romanticism 52:1 (2011): 85-113.
  • Everest, Kelvin. Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light. Oxford UP, 2022. (Situates the lives and work of the poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley within the literary, cultural, political, and social currents of their time.)
  • Everest, Kelvin. Keats’s Formal Legacy and the Victorians, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 239-255. (Surveys the earliest period of Keats’s posthumous reputation, with discussion of the importance of the “Cambridge Apostles” and their enthusiasm for Shelley as a bridge to early appreciation of Keats.)
  • Gallenzi, Allesandro. Written in Water: Keats’s Final Journey. Alma Books, 2022. (Gathers available material—adding new documents—that follows Keats from London to Naples, through to his journey to Rome.)
  • Gamer, Michael, & Deven Parker. Keats, Incorporated: Social Authorship and the Making of a Brand. European Romantic Review 33:2, (2022): 137-156. (Argues that practical-minded Keats was interested in the business of literature, and how 1820 volume constructs a marketable authorial persona—one that emerges from that earlier maligned volume.)
  • Garner, Katie and Nicholas Roe, editors. John Keats and Romantic Scotland. Oxford UP, 2022. (Twelve important and original essays explore the Keats/Brown 1818 tour; topics include the contemporary Highland tour, Scottish literature and culture, Robert Burns’s life, Keats’s health, and the influence on Scottish artists.)
  • Garofalo, Daniela. ‘Give me that voice again . . . Those looks immortal’: Gaze and Voice in Keats’s The Eve of St. Agnes. Studies in Romanticism 49:3 (2010): 353-373. (Examines Keats in the context of the commercial culture that fascinated him but does not assume that this fascination ends with acceptance and full engagement.)
  • Ghosh, Hrileena and Sean P. Hughes. John Keats and the Temporal Artery. Keats-Shelley Review 34:2 (2020): 107-117. (Argues that Keats’s last operation treated a patient with head injuries, that this operation brings into focus for him an aspect of his temperament that left him unsuited to practise medicine.)
  • Ghosh, Hrileena. John Keats’ Medical Notebook: Text, Context, and Poems. Liverpool UP, 2020. (This book explores the connections between Keats’s medical knowledge and his greatest poetry.)
  • Gigante, Denise. Seeing Spots: Milton, Addison, Keats, and the Emergence of the Sublime Pathetic, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 173-91. (Explores how Keats’s concept of the sublime pathetic in the margins of his copy of Paradise Lost is explicated through Joseph Addison’s Spectator essays.)
  • Grogan, Suzie. John Keats: Poetry, Life and Landscapes. London: Pen and Sword Books, 2021. (This is not a academic book, but rather an intelligent and personal encounter with Keats’s life and work, as well as a useful introduction to Keats.)
  • Graham-Campbell, Angus. ‘The Poet or the Man’: Impressions of John Keats on William Smith Williams. The Keats-Shelley Review 34:1 (2020): 7-11. (Explores the impact Keats had on William Smith Williams, who may have been the last person to shake Keats’s hand as he left for Naples.)
  • Heffernan, James A. “Keats: ‘The Eve of St. Agnes,’ ‘La Belle Dame,’ ‘Lamia’.” Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature. Yale, UP, 2014: 179-191.
  • Henning, Peter. Keats, Ecocriticsm, and the Poetics of Place. Studies in Romanticism 57:3 (2018): 407-27.
  • Hess, Jillian.‘This Living Hand’: Commonplacing Keats. Keats-Shelley Review 24:1 (2010): 15-21. (Examines Keats’s ‘Chapman’s Homer’ sonnet as a reformulation of the eighteenth-century prospect poem.)
  • Hessell, Nikki. Keats and Brown Reading. European Romantic Review 33.2 (2022): 212-38. (Examines the influence of reports from British India on Keats’s poems—in particular, on Hyperon, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Isabella,” and associated letters; networks of Brown reading challenge assumptions about interpreting Keats.)
  • Hill, Rosemary. Keats, Antiquarianism, and the Picturesque. EIC 64:2 (2014): 119-37.
  • Hughes, Sean P. and Noel Snell. Is the Criticism of John Keats’s Doctors Justified? A Bicentenary Re-Appraisal. The Keats-Shelley Review 35:1 (2021): 41-55. (Argues that Keats’s doctors applied contemporary medical care for Keats’s consumption.)
  • Jackson, Noel. The Time of Beauty. Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (2011): 311-334. (Opens up the problem of Keats being both an untimely poet and a political one.)
  • Johnson, Daniel. Rereading Keats’s Reading in the Digital Realm, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 77-100. (Examines how Keats’s copy of Paradise Lost [in digital form] converses not only with Keats, Romantic literary sociology, and annotation history, but also with the future of scholarly commentary.)
  • Jones, Mark. Reading Keats to the Letter: e. Studies in Romanticism 51.3 (2012): 343-73. (An ingenious examination of the letter e as iconic functioning in Keats’s poetry and poetics—primarily in connection to eyes and gazing.)
  • Jones, Clare. “Bat, Bat, Come Under My Hat.” The Keats-Shelley Review 33.1 (2019): 122-126. (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.)
  • Keats in 1819, Essays in Honour of Michael O’Neill. Romanticism 28.2 (July, 2022). (A ranging and useful collection of essays on Keats, including work by Sarah Wootton, Seamus Perry, Richard Marggraf Turley, Jennifer Squire, Emily Rohrbach, Meiko O’Halloran, Mark Sandy, and Kelvin Everest.)
  • The Keats Letters Project [website], 2016. Founded/edited by Anne McCarthy, Ian Newman, Brian Rejack, Kate Singer, Emily B. Stanback, and Michael Theune. (This wonderful site is a concerted effort to offer systematic close readings and literary analyses of the letters.) <http://keatslettersproject.com>
  • Lau, Beth. Keats, the Novel, and the 1820 Volume: Romance vs. Reality, Facts vs. Imagination. European Romantic Review 33:2 (2022): 195-212. (This essay adopts the four-stage dialectical sequence Michael McKeon proposes for the history of the British novel as a template for interpreting Keats’s career.)
  • Lau, Beth. Keats as a Reader of Novels, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 193-215. (Discusses Keats’s relation to the novel; provides a list of novels Keats may have read; suggests how Keats’s conflict between romance and reality is closely associated with eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries novels.)
  • Lau, Beth. “Analyzing Keats’s Library by Genre.” Keats-Shelley Journal 65 (2016): 126-51. (Indispensable for serious Keats scholarship.)
  • Lau, Beth. Keats. In Great Shakespeareans, Vol. IV: Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats. Ed. Adrian Poole, 109-159. London: Continuum, 2010.
  • Lau, Beth, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson, eds. Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. (This book explores John Keats’s reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers [as well as] later writers’ engagements with Keats’s poetry.)
  • Lau, Beth, Daniel Johnson, and Greg Kucich. Keats’s Paradise Lost: a Digital Edition. 2020. <http://keatslibrary.org/paradise-lost/> (A digital scholarly edition of an important Keats artifact.)
  • Lee, Tara. ‘Philosophic Numbers Smooth’: The Ambivalence of Song in Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale.’ The Keats-Shelley Review 33.1 (2019): 114-121. (Complicates Keats’s engagement with birdsong, language, music, and the desire for meaning without sensation.)
  • Lo, David. Beyond Narration: Keats’s Mortal Tongue and His Hyperions. Keats-Shelley Journal 69 (2020): 57-81. (In his Hyperion projects, Keats presents a world that precedes language and demonstrates his negative capability by questioning linguistic complacency in narrative representation.)
  • MacGregor, Cora. ‘Physician to All Men’: Keats and the Poet’s Claim to Truth. Keats-Shelley Review 34:1 (2020): 56-61. (Argues that 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.)
  • Mathes, Carmen Faye. Reciprocal Keats, in Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation. Stanford UP, 2022: 119-145. (Explores the expectations of affective reciprocity that characterize Keats’s poetics; these motivate the complex negotiations between pursuit and retreat underlying his expressions.)
  • Mathes, Carmen Faye. ‘Let us not therefore go hurrying about’: Towards an Aesthetics of Passivity in Keats’s Poetics. European Romantic Review 25.3 (2014): 309-18. (Argues that Keats saw passivity as an embodied, and even physically demanding, attitude, that could prompt the interest and attention of others.)
  • McDowell, Stacey. 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.)
  • McGrath, Brian. Keats for Beginners. Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (2011): 351-372.
  • Roberts, Merrilees. “The Eroticization of Sleep in the Poetry of John Keats.” English (London), 2023. <https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efad014> (Keats’s sleep-states [rather than dreams] become a site of erotic intensity and power-play [. . .] through depictions of sleep, Keats creates a paradoxical, knowing eroticism where the senses are aroused even though the will is suspended.)
  • Mihani, Loredana. Keats’s Early Poetic Vision: Between the Confines of the Real and the Ideal. The Keats-Shelley Review 29.2 (2015): 93-104.
  • Miller, Christopher R. 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.)
  • Miller, Lucasta. Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph. Vintage Books (Penguin), 2021. (From the official blurb: Keats is fashioned as a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and dysfunctional family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature [. . .] not the ethereal figure of his posthumous myth.)
  • Moy, Olivia Loksing. From Hampstead to Buenos Aires and Beyond: Anticipating Worlds in Julio Cortázar’s Imagen de John Keats. Comparative Literature 72:4 (2020): 439-59. (Explores how Cortázar imports Keats into amazing new contexts—from Hampstead to Buenos Aires—using his life, writings, and poetic “image” to create new worlds on an expansive, global scale.)
  • Mulrooney, Jonathan. How Keats Falls. Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (2011): 251-73. (Via Hyperion, the article explores how, for Keats, human identity emerges from the imagination’s necessarily incomplete attempts to comprehend the fullness of its historical experience.)
  • Mulrooney, Jonathan. Keats’s 1817 Occasions. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 59.4 (2019): 741-761. (This article argues that John Keats’s 1817 first volume Poems evinces a commitment to occasionalism that suffuses, and indeed defines, Keats’s work.)
  • Myers, Mary Anne. Keats and the Hands of Petrarch and Laura. Keats-Shelley Journal 62 (2013): 99-113.
  • Nersessian, Anahid. Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse. U. Chicago P, 2021. ([Nersessian’s] Keats is an unflinching antagonist of modern life—of capitalism, of the British Empire, of the destruction of the planet—as well as a passionate idealist for whom every poem is a love poem.)
  • Nersessian, Anahid. Keats and Catachresis, in The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life. Chicago UP, 2020. (This chapter considers Keats’s oft-derided sensuousness as an elective affliction, a way of making language strain past its breaking point.)
  • Oldfather, Elizabeth. “‘Ode to a Nightingale’: Poetry and the Particularity of Sense.” European Romantic Review 30.5-6 (2019): 557-572. (Argues that Keats’s attention to the fine workings of sensory imagery creates cognitive effects that go beyond his famed synesthesia.)
  • Oliensis, Ellen. Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and Horace’s Epodes. Keats-Shelley Journal 62 (2013): 32-36. (Argues that Keats had Horace’s Epodes on his mind when he wrote “Ode to a Nightingale.”)
  • O’Neill, Michael, ed. John Keats in Context. Cambridge UP, 2017. (A strong and varied collection by many important Keats scholars.)
  • Ostas, Magdalena. Keats’s Voice. Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (2011) 335-50.
  • Powrie, Sarah. Keats Reading Chaucer: Troilus and Arrested Time in The Eve of St. Agnes, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 129-51. (Argues how The Eve of St. Agnes represents Keats’s response to Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde.)
  • Rancière, Jacques. The Politics of the Spider. Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (2011): 239-250.
  • Rejack, Brian. Keats’s Poetics of Secretion. Keats-Shelley Journal 67 (2018): 96-107. (The poems in Keats’s 1817 volume repeatedly demonstrate Keats’s sophisticated thinking about mediation, especially his insistence that aspects of mediation appear hidden or unknowable, and that they operate through separation as much as through connection.)
  • Rejack, Brian & Michael Theune. Tolling Back: How The Cap and Bells Re-peals the 1820 Volume. European Romantic Review 33:2 (2022): 283-299. (Poses a mental experiment: what if the final poem of the 1820 volume had not been Hyperion but rather The Cap and Bells?)
  • Rejack, Brian & Michael Theune, eds. Keats’s Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives. London: Liverpool UP, 2019. (A varied and valuable collection that represents the expandability and complexity of Keats’s key term.)
  • Rejack, Brian & Susan J. Wolfson. ‘Murdered Man’: Re-Examining Keats in The Examiner. The Keats-Shelley Review 35:1 (2021): 11-29. (Ingeniously based on a serendipitous chance connection between a newspaper report and Keats’s Isabella; or the Pot of Basil.)
  • Reynolds, Suzanne. “‘Some Scraps of Paper’: The Autograph Manuscript of Ode to a Nightingale at the Fitzwilliam Museum.” Keats-Shelley Review 33.2 (2019): 140-158. (Traces the history of the only surviving autograph manuscript of Ode to a Nightingale and preserved since 1933 in the Fitzwilliam Museum.)
  • Roberson, Jessica. Necrobotany and the green burials of John Keats. Nineteenth-Century Contexts (July 2020) DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2020.1782016.
  • Robinson, Jeffrey C. Modern Experimental Poets Reading Keats: ‘Misers of Sound and Syllable’, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 273-298. (Sees Keats as a major source for a twentieth-century avant-garde of linguistic othering, the recovery of a “mother tongue,” a subversion—a minorization—of cultural speech, and a wide-spread conviction among experimental writers.)
  • Robinson, Jeffrey C. 1820: Poetics ‘In the Spirit of Outlawry’. European Romantic Review 33:2 (2022), 157-174. (Argues that the 1820 volume puts forward a consistent program of radical poetics; the 1820 romances are dramas of successful or unsuccessful attempts at controlling the desires of the other.)
  • Roe, Nicholas, ed. John Keats and the Medical Imagination. London: Palgrave, 2017. (Numerous important contributions revolving around Keats’s medical experience and training.)
  • Roe, Nicholas. English Restored: John Keats’s ‘To Autumn’. Essays in Criticism 67.3 (July 2017): 237-58.
  • Rohrbach, Emily and Emily Sun. Reading Keats, Thinking Politics. Studies in Romanticism 50:2 (2011): 229-37. (A very useful historical account of critical engagement about Keats’s political identity.)
  • Rowland, Ann Wierdra. John Keats, English Poet (Made in America). Keats-Shelley Journal 65 (2016): 112-125.
  • Rzepka, Charles J. ‘Jack a Lanthern’ Verse: Of Pots and Precursors and Poetic Value in Isabella, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 103-27. (Argues that Isabella is Keats’s most detailed and complex allegory of poetic reception and influence.)
  • Sandy, Mark. ‘A Season Changes Color to No End”: Keats’s ‘To Autumn,’ Wallace Stevens, and the Post-Romantic Imagination, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 257-272. (Argues that the experiential contours of Keats’s “To Autumn” remain a compelling presence in Stevens’s poetic imagination.)
  • Schulkins, Rachel. Keats, Modesty, and Masturbation. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
  • Scott, Grant F. Keats, Housekeeping and the Poetry of Mourning. European Romantic Review 33:2 (2022): 229-245. (Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping (1980) bears strong affinities with English Romanticism and forges even stronger ties with the poems of Keats’s 1820 volume and the concepts of Negative Capability and the Chameleon Poet.)
  • Scott, Grant F. Erasing Schulz, Restoring Keats: Tree of Codes and Negative Capability. Keats-Shelley Journal 67 (2018): 140-146. (Jeffrey’s transcript of the negative capability letter eerily embodies Keats’s famous concept.)
  • Sha, Richard C. John Keats and Some Versions of Materiality. Romanticism 20.3 (2014): 233-45. (Examines Keats from a materialist perspective, analysing Keats’s aesthetics within the framework of materialist possibility [. . .]. Further discussion is offered regarding Romantic philosophies of matter and ideals, readdressing their implications on literary aesthetics.)
  • Sharp, Ronald A. Friendship in the Early Letters of Keats. Wordsworth Circle 47.2-3 (2016): 129-34. (Argues that Keats’s 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.)
  • Sigler, David. The Myths of Pleasure in Keats’s ‘Fancy’. Keats-Shelley Journal 69 (2020): 21-36. (In his poem Fancy, Keats develops a distinctly psychoanalytic theory of the pleasure principle, in which the play of literary language is central.)
  • Stanley-Price, Nicholas. Keats’s Grave Revisited. Keats-Shelley Review 33.2 (2019): 175-93. (Clarifies and expands the history of Keats’s grave in Rome.)
  • Stanley-Price, Nicholas. The Graves in Rome of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Published by the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome. 2020. (The definitive word on the two gravesites.)
  • Stanley-Price, Nicholas. The Sacrosanct Status of the Graves of Keats and Shelley in the Twentieth Century. Keats-Shelley Review 35.1 (2021): 64-79. (Reinforced by regular commemoration ceremonies, the continuing sanctity of the poets’ graves has survived despite various attempts to ‘improve’ them.)
  • Swann, Karen. Lives of Dead Poets: Keats, Shelley, Coleridge. Fordham UP, 2019. (Fixes on how our fascination with Keats’s life informs our reading of his work.)
  • Thomson, Heidi. Keats’s Letters: ‘A Wilful and Dramatic Exercise of Our Minds Toward Each Other’. Keats-Shelley Review 25.2 (2011): 160-74.
  • Turley, Richard Marggraf, ed. Keats’s Places. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. (This collection, with chapters by some prominent Keats scholars, profitably explores the idea of place in Keats’s life and poetry.)
  • Turley, Richard Marggraf. Keats on Two Wheels. Studies in Romanticism 57.4 (2018): 601-25. (A free-wheeling exploration of Keats’s one allusion to the velocipede.)
  • Ulmer, William A. Serpent’s Tongue: The Byronism of Lamia. Studies in Philology 118.1 (2021): 181-206. (Keats uses Lamia to lament the parodic feminization of canonical norms on the Regency literary scene.)
  • Van Kooy, Dana. “Darien Prospects in Keats’s ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’.” Keats-Shelley Review 29:2 (2015): 128-145. (Examines Keats’s ‘Chapman’s Homer’ sonnet as a reformulation of the eighteenth-century prospect poem.)
  • Ravinthiran, Vidyan. Keats, Distance, and Feeling-States. ELH 89.4 9 (2022): 1019-48. (Suggests that Keats’s feeling-states amounts to a counterhistoricist aesthetics also germane to minoritized and postcolonial writers, and to the global citizen haplessly, today, immersed in streams of news-data.)
  • Vrijders. Dries. “History, Poetry, and the Footnote: Cleanth Brooks and Kenneth Burke on Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’.” New Literary History 42:3 (2011): 537-552.
  • Weinfield, Henry. Keats’s Confrontation with Nothingness in “When I Have Fears” and Other Poems, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 153-72. (Via Shakespeare and Gray, examines how Keats develops the problems of death, nothingness, and unfulfilled potential.)
  • Whitcombe, Rosie. Connection, Consolation, and the Power of Distance in the Letters of John Keats. Keats-Shelley Review 35.1 (2021): 86-92. (Keats’s sensitive and self-conscious engagement with distance is played out in the letters he writes while dealing with the aftermath, and threat, of death.)
  • White, R. S. Keats: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
  • White, R. S. Keats’s Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems (1820). Edinburgh U. P., 2020. (This book usefully analyses the [1820] collection as an authorially organised and multi-dimensionally unified volume rather than as a collection of occasional poems, and fully engaged with Burton’s work.)
  • Wolfson, Susan J. ‘I May Write My name’: A Collector’s Fog-Born Elf. Keats-Shelley Review 37:1 (2023): 12-27. (A personal and surprising essay about cultic misprision of a manuscript leaf holding on one side Keats’s Sonnet to Sleep.)
  • Wolfson, Susan J. A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries. Harvard UP, 2022. ([R]eaders will rediscover a virtuoso poet, by turns lively, experimental, self-ironizing, outrageous, and philosophical [and readings that] redefine the breadth and depth of Keats’s poetic imagination, from intellectual jests and satires to erotic bandying, passionate confessions, and reflections on mortality. )
  • Wolfson, Susan J. An Outlier and an Outcast: Keats’s Last Lifetime Volume, with ‘Fancy,’ Without ‘Indolence.’ European Romantic Review 33:2 (2022): 175-194. (This essay gathers the outcast ‘Indolence’ and the outlier ‘Fancy’ from the margins of curated ‘Keats’ for fresh consideration, as lodges of energies that Keats wanted to conjure into legitimacy.)
  • Wolfson, Susan. J. Keats the Reader, in Keats Reading / Reading Keats, ed. Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, & Daniel Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 17-42. (Explores how Keats reading—and in particular Wordsworth, Milton, Shakespeare, Milton—relays into our reading Keats.)
  • Wolfson, Susan, J. ‘Slow Time,’ ‘a Brooklet, Scarce Espied’: Close Reading, Cleanth Brooks, John Keats in The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century, ed. Anirudh Sridhar, Mir Ali Hosseini, and Derek Attridge. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 195-218. (A playful yet penetrating examination Cleanth Brook’s evolving take on Keats, combined with a reading of Ode to Psyche as an experimental poem self-conscious of its own historical production.)
  • Wolfson, Susan J. ‘On He Flared’: Essays on Four Letters of Keats. Rome: Keats-Shelley House, 2021. (Here are four of Keats’s letters showing the man and the craftsman embracing life’s energies with death on a too-near horizon.)
  • Wolfson, Susan J. Determined not Predetermined: Keats’s Emergence as a Poet in 1817. Keats Shelley Journal 67 (2018): 70-86.
  • Wolfson, Susan J. Yeats’s Latent Keats / Keats’s Latent Yeats. PMLA 131.3 (2016): 603-621. (Keats’s writing harbors figures to which Yeats could respond, even correspond, vexed as he was by ‘Keats’ as the name for the puerile outsider’s dreamy sensuousness that a proper ‘modernist’ needed to spurn. A development of this essay also appears as a chapter in Wolfson’s Romantic Shades and Shadows [Johns Hopkins UP, 2018], which also has other discussions of Keats.)
  • Wolfson, Susan J. Reading John Keats. Cambridge UP, 2015. (Masterful and lively readings of Keats’s poetry.)
  • Wu, Duncan. 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.)
  • Wunder, Jennifer, N. Keats, Hermeticism, and the Secret Societies. New York: Routledge, 2016. First published by Ashgate, 2008. (Suggests that Keats’s thinking and poetry is in part informed by his knowledge of hermeticism and secret societies.)

General Selected Criticism (up to 2009)

  • Aske, Martin. Keats and Hellenism: An Essay. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.
  • Barnard, John. John Keats. Cambridge, 1987.
  • Barnard, John. Keats’s Letters: ‘Remembrancing and Enchaining.’ In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 120-134. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Barnard, John. First Fruits or First Blights: A New Account of the Publishing History of Keats’s Poems (1817). Romanticism 12.2 (2006), 71-101.
  • Barnard, John. Who Killed John Keats? Times Literary Supplement, 2 Dec. 2009.
  • Barth, J. Robert. Keats’s Way of Salvation. Studies in Romanticism 45.2 (2006): 285-97.
  • Bate, Walter Jackson. Negative Capability. The Intuitive Approach in Keats. New York: Contra Mundum P, 2012. (Originally published in 1939; a key book.)
  • Bate, Walter Jackson. John Keats. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1963.
  • Bate, Walter Jackson. The Stylistic Development of Keats. New York: Modern Language Association, 1945.
  • Bayley, John. Keats and Reality. In Proceedings of the British Academy (1962): 91-125.
  • Bennett, Andrew. Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
  • Bernstein, Gene. “Keats’s ‘Lamia’: The Sense of a Non-Ending,” Papers on Language and Literature 15 (1979): 175-92.
  • Beer, Gillian. Aesthetic Debate in Keats’s Odes. Modern Language Review 64.4 (1969) 742-48.
  • Bewell, Alan. Keats’s ‘Realm of Flora’. Studies in Romanticism 31.1 (1992) 71-98.
  • Bewell, Alan. “The Political Implication of Keats’s Classicist Aesthetics,” Studies in Romanticism 25 (1986) 221-30.
  • Bloom, Harold. Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens. New Haven: Yale UP, 1976. (Contains a challenging reading of The Fall of Hyperion.)
  • Bloom, Harold. “Keats and the Embarrassments of Poetic Tradition,” in The Ringers in the Tower. U Chicago P, 1971.
  • Bostetter, Edward E. “Keats,” in The Romantic Ventriloquists. U Washington P, 1963.
  • Bradley, A. C. The Letters of John Keats. Oxford Lectures on Poetry. 209-244. London: Macmillan, 1950.
  • Bromwich, David. Keats. In Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic, 362–401. New York: Oxford UP, 1983.
  • Bromwich, David. Keats’s Radicalism. Studies in Romanticism 25.2 (1986): 197-210.
  • Brooks, Cleanth. Keats’s Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes. In The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry. 139-52. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1947.
  • Burke, Kenneth. Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats. Accent 4 (1943).
  • Christensen, Allan C., et. al., eds. The Challenge of Keats: Bicentenary Essays, 1795-1995. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.
  • Cheatham, George. Byron’s Dislike of Keats’s Poetry.Keats-Shelley Journal. 32 (1983): 20-25.
  • Corcoran, Brendan. Keats’s Death: Towards a Posthumous Poetics. Studies in Romanticism 48.2 (2009): 321-348, 368.
  • Cox, Jeffrey N. Lamia, Isabella, and The Eve of St. Agnes — Eros and ‘romance’. In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 53-68. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Cox, Jeffrey. Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and their Circle. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. (Central to understanding Keats’s political context.)
  • Creaser, John. John Keats: Odes. In A Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu, 237-246. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999.
  • de Almeida, Hermione. Romantic Medicine and John Keats. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
  • de Man, Paul. Introduction. In John Keats: Selected Poetry: ix-xxxvi. New York: New American Library, 1966. (An underused introduction to Keats, but with some strong insights.)
  • Dickstein, Morris. Keats and His Poetry. U Chicago P, 1971.
  • Dickstein, Morris. Keats and Politics. Studies in Romanticism 25 (1986): 175-181.
  • Edmundson, Mark. Keats’s Mortal Stance. Studies in Romanticism 26.1 (1987): 85-104.
  • Eisner, Eric. Keats, Lyric and Personality. In Nineteenth Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity. Ed. Eric Eisner, 48-67. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • Eliot, T. S. Shelley and Keats. In The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism. London: Faber, 1933.
  • Ende, Stuart. Keats and the Sublime. New Haven: Yale UP, 1976.
  • Everest, Kelvin. Shelley’s Adonais and John Keats. Essays in Criticism 57:3 (2007): 237-64.
  • Everest, Kelvin. John Keats. Liverpool UP, 2002. (Offers the intelligent new reader a chronological and evaluative guide to Keats’s major poems and letters, from a perspective which aims to counter the historical emphasis of recent critical work.)
  • Evert, Walter H. and Jack W. Rhodes, eds. Approaches to Teaching Keats’s Poetry. New York: Modern Language Association, 1991.
  • Fermanis, Porschia. John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2009.
  • Finney, Claude Lee. Evolution of Keats’s Poetry. 2 vols. Harvard UP, 1936.
  • Ford, Newell F. The Prefigurative Imagination of John Keats, Stanford Studies in Language and Literature. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1951.
  • Fraser, G. S., ed. John Keats: Odes: A Casebook. London, Macmillan, 1971.
  • Friedman, Geraldine. The Erotics of Interpretation in Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’: Pursuing the Feminine. Studies in Romanticism 32 (1993): 225-43.
  • Fry, Paul. History, Existence and ‘To Autumn.’ Studies in Romanticism 25 (1986): 211-19.
  • Gallant, Christine. Keats and Romantic Celticism. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005.
  • Gigante, Denise. Keats’s Nausea. Studies in Romanticism 40.4 (2001): 481-510.
  • Gittings, Robert. Keats and Medicine. Contemporary Review 219 (1971): 138-42.
  • Gittings, Robert. John Keats: The Living Year. London: Heinemann, 1954. (One of key biographies.)
  • Gittings, Robert. Keats and Chatterton. Keats-Shelley Journal 4 (Winter 1955): 47-54.
  • Goellnicht, Donald C. The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh UP, 1984.
  • Goellnicht, Donald C. Keats on Reading: ‘Delicious Diligent Indolence’. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology88:2 (1989): 1990-2010.
  • Hartman, Geoffrey. Poem and Ideology: A Study of Keats’s ‘To Autumn’. In The Fate of Reading. Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 1975: 57–73.
  • Hartman, Geoffrey. Spectral Symbolism and Authorial Self in Keats’s Hyperion. In The Fate of Reading. Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 1975: 124–46.
  • Hayden, John O., ed. Romantic Bards and British Reviewers. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971.
  • Hecht, Anthony. Keats’s Appetite. Keats-Shelley Review 18:1 (2004): 68-88.
  • Heffernan, James A. Shelley’s Consumption of Keats. Studies in Romanticism 23:3 (1984): 295-315.
  • Homans, Margaret. Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats. Studies in Romanticism 29 (1990): 341–70.
  • Jack, Ian. Keats and the Mirror of Art. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1967.
  • Jackson, Noel. Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. (Chapter 5 is on Keats.)
  • Jones, John. John Keats’s Dream of Truth. London: Chatto and Windus, 1969.
  • Jones, Leonidas M. Reynolds and Keats. Keats-Shelley Journal 7 (Winter 1958): 47-59.
  • Jones, Leonidas M. Edward Holmes and Keats. Keats-Shelley Journal 44 (1974): 119-128.
  • Kandl, John. Leigh Hunt’s Examiner and the Construction of a Public ‘John Keats’. Keats-Shelley Journal 44 (1995) 84-101.
  • Kandl, John. The Politics of Keats’s Early Poetry, in The Cambridge Companion to Keats, ed. Susan J. Wolfson. Cambridge UP, 2001, 1-19.
  • Keach, William. Cockney Couplets: Keats and the Politics of Style. Studies in Romanticism 25.2 (1986): 182-96.
  • Keach, William. Byron Reads Keats in The Cambridge Companion to Keats, ed. Susan J. Wolfson. Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Kelley, Theresa M. Poetics and the Politics of Reception: Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci.’ English Literary History 54:2 (1987): 333–62.
  • Kelley, Theresa M. Keats and ‘Ekphrasis.’ In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, ed. Susan J. Wolfson. Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Kern, Robert. Keats and the Problem of Romance, Philological Quarterly 58 (1979): 171-91.
  • Ketchian, Sonia. Keats and the Russian Poets. Birmingham: U of Birmingham Press, 2001.
  • Kimberly, Caroline, E. Effeminacy, Masculinity, and Homosocial Bonds: The (Un)Intentional Queering of John Keats. Romanticism on the Net 36-37 (2004-2005). [Online resource.]
  • Knoepflmacher, U. C. The Return of a Native Singer: Keats in Hardy’s Dorset. In Influence and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Poetry. Ed. G. Kim Blank and Margot K. Louis. Macmillan, 1993, 112-30.
  • Kucich, Greg. Keats and English Poetry. In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 186-202. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Kucich, Greg. Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1991.
  • Kucich, Greg. The Poetry of Mind in Keats’s Letters. Style 21 (1987): 76-94. (A terrific way to get into the letters.)
  • Lau, Beth, Keats’s Paradise Lost. Florida: U. of Florida P., 1998.
  • Lau, Beth. Keats’s Reading of the Romantic Poets. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1991.
  • Lau, Beth. Protest, ’Nativism,’ and Impersonation in the Works of Chatterton and Keats. Studies in Romanticism 42.4 (2003): 519-39.
  • Lau, Beth. “Jane Austen and John Keats: Negative Capability, Romance and Reality.” Keats-Shelley Journal 55 (2006): 81-110.
  • Levinson, Marjorie. Keats’s Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. (A game-changing book.)
  • Levinson, Marjorie. The Dependent Fragment: ‘Hyperion’ and ‘The Fall of Hyperion’, in The Romantic Fragment Poem. Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, 1986.
  • Li, Ou. Keats and Negative Capability. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
  • Lockridge, Laurence S. Keats: the Ethics of Imagination. In Coleridge, Keats and the Imagination: Romanticism and Adam’s Dream. Edited by J. Robert Barth and John L. Mahoney, 143-73. Columbia: U. of Missouri P., 1990.
  • Luke, David. Keats’s Letters: Fragments of an Aesthetic of Fragments. Genre 11 (1978): 209-226.
  • Marggraf-Turley, Richard. Keats’s Boyish Imagination: The Politics of Immaturity. New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Marsh, George L. and Newman I. White. Keats and the Periodicals of his Time. Modern Philology 30:1 (1934): 37-53.
  • Matthews, G. M., ed. Keats: The Critical Heritage. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1971.
  • McFarland, Thomas. The Masks of Keats: The Endeavour of a Poet. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
  • McGann, Jerome J. Keats and the Historical Method in Literary Criticism. Modern Language Notes 94 (1979): 988-1032. (A key essay.)
  • McKusick, James. Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
  • Mellor, Anne K. Keats and the Complexities of Gender. In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 214-229. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Minahan, John A. Word Like a Bell: John Keats, Music and the Romantic Poet. Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1992.
  • Mizukoshi, Ayumi. Keats, Hunt and The Aesthetic of Pleasure. Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001.
  • Murry, John Middleton. Keats and Shakespeare: A Study of Keats’s Poetic Life from 1816 to 1820. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1925. (Dated, yet generally sensible and insightful.)
  • Najarian, James. Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire. Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002.
  • Newey, Vincent. Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, and Keats’s Epic Ambitions. In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 69-85. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Newey, Vincent. Keats, History, and the Poets. In Keats and History. Ed. Nicholas Roe, 165–93. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
  • Newey, Vincent. Keats, Politics, and the Idea of Revolution. In Centring the Self: Subjectivity, Society and Reading from Thomas Gray to Thomas Hardy. 97-121. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995.
  • O’Neill, Michael. Keats: Bicentenary Readings. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1977. (A strong collection.)
  • O’Rourke, James. Keats’s Odes and Contemporary Criticism. Gainesville: U. P. of Florida, 1998.
  • Perkins, David. The Quest for Permanence: The Symbolism of Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats. Chapters 7–9, 190–301. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1959.
  • Phinney. A. W. Keats in the Museum: Between Aesthetics and History. Journal of English and German Philology. 90 (1991): 208-22.
  • Redpath, Theodore. The Young Romantics and Critical Opinion, 1807- 1824. London: Harrap, 1973.
  • Reiman, Donald, ed. The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers, Part C, v. 1-2: Shelley, Keats, and London Radical Writers. New York and London: Garland Press, 1972.
  • Richardson, Alan. Keats and Romantic Science: Writing the body. In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 230-245. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Ricks, Christopher. Keats’s Sources, Keats’s Allusions. In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 152-169. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Ricks, Christopher. Keats and Embarrassment. London: Oxford UP, 1974.
  • Robinson, Jeffrey C. Reception and Poetics in Keats: My Ended Poet. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1998.
  • Roe, Nicholas, ed. Keats and History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. (A very important gathering of historicist thinking about Keats.)
  • Roe, Nicholas. John Keats’s ‘Green World’: Politics, Nature and the Poems. In The Challenges of Keats: Bicentenary Essays 1795–1995. Ed. Allan Christensen et al., 61-77. Amsterdam, GA: Rodopi, 2000.
  • Roe, Nicholas. John Keats and the Culture of Dissent. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. (Importantly situates Keats in a republican, radical context.)
  • Roe, Nicholas. John Keats and George Felton Mathew: Poetics, Politics, and the European Magazine. Keats-Shelley Journal 49 (2000): 31-36.
  • Rovee, Christopher. Trashing Keats, ELH 75 (2008) 993-1022.
  • Rzepka, Charles J. Keats: Watcher and Witness, in The Self as Mind. Cambridge: Harvard U P, 1986.
  • Rzepka, Charles J. ‘Cortez: Or Balboa, or Somebody like That’: Form, Fact, and Forgetting in Keats’s ‘Chapman’s Homer’ Sonnet. Keats-Shelley Journal. 51 (2002): 35-75.
  • Saly, John. Keats’s Answer to Dante: The Fall of Hyperion. Keats-Shelley Journal. 14 (1965): 65-78.
  • Schwartz, Lewis M. Keats’s Critical Reception in Newspapers of His Day. Keats-Shelley Journal. 21/22 (1972/1973): 170-87.
  • Scott, Grant F. Beautiful Ruins: The Elgin Marbles Sonnet in Its Historical and Generic Contexts. Keats-Shelley Journal 39 (1990): 123-150.
  • Scott, Grant F. The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts. UP of New England, 1994.
  • Scott, Grant F. Introduction: Tabloid Keats. European Romantic Review 6:1 (1995): i-xii.
  • Scott, Grant F. Writing Keats’s Last Days: Severn, Sharp, and Romantic Biography. Studies in Romanticism 42.1 (2003): 3-26. (A profitable re-evaluation of Severn’s character and place in Keats’s legacy.)
  • Sheats, Paul D. Keats and the Ode. In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 86-101. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Sheats, Paul D. Keats, the Greater Ode, and the Trial of Imagination. In Coleridge, Keats, and the Imagination: Romanticism and Adam’s Dream. Ed. J. Robert Barth, S. J. and John L. Mahoney, 174-200. Columbia: U. of Missouri P., 1990.
  • Sheats, Paul. “Stylistic Discipline in The Fall of Hyperion.Keats-Shelley Journal 17 (1968) 75-88.
  • Sheley, Erin. Re-imagining Olympus: Keats and the Mythology of the Individual Consciousness. Romanticism on the Net 45 (2007). [Online Resource]
  • Sherwin, Paul. ‘Dying into life’: Keats’s Struggle with Milton in Hyperion. Publications of the Modern Language Association 93:3 (1978): 383-395.
  • Siegel, Jonah. “Among the English Poets: Keats, Arnold, and the Placement of Fragments.” Victorian Poetry 37:2 (1999): 215–232.
  • Siler, Jack L. Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats. New York: Routledge, 2007. (Connects Keats’s poetry with social history.)
  • Slote, Bernice. Keats and the Dramatic Principle. Lincoln, Nebraska: U. of Nebraska P, 1958.
  • Smith, Hillas. Keats and Medicine. Newport: Cross Publishing, 1995.
  • Spiegelman, Willard. Keats’s Figures of Indolence. Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art. Oxford UP, 1995: 83-107.
  • Sperry, Stuart M. Keats the Poet. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1973. (Remains a very strong series of readings.)
  • Stewart, Garrett. Lamia and the Language of Metamorphosis. Studies in Romanticism 15 (1976): 3-41.
  • Stewart, Garrett. Keats and Language. In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson. Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Stillinger, Jack. The Hoodwinking of Madeline and Other Essays on Keats’s Poems. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971. (One of the major sensible and probing thinkers about Keats.)
  • Stillinger, Jack. 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.
  • Stillinger, Jack. Reading The Eve of St. Agnes: The Multiples of Complex Literary Transaction. Oxford UP, 1999.
  • Stillinger, Jack. Romantic Complexity: Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
  • Stillinger, Jack. The Story of Keats. In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 246-60. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001, 246-60.
  • Studies in Romanticism. Keats and Politics: A Forum. v. 25, Summer 1986. (An important gathering that establishes Keats in a political context.)
  • Sugan, Michio. Was ’Keats’s Last Sonnet’ Really Written on board the Maria Crowther? Studies in Romanticism 34:3 (1995): 413-440.
  • Swann, Karen. Endymion’s Beautiful Dreamers. In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 20-36. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
  • Swann, Karen. “The Strange Time of Reading.” European Romantic Review 9 (1998): 275-82.
  • Thorpe, Clarence D. Keats and Hazlitt: A Record of Personal Relationship and Critical Estimate. PMLA. 62:2 (1947): 487-502.
  • Trilling, Lionel. ‘Introduction’ to The Selected Letters (1951); rpt. The Poet as Hero: Keats in His Letters. In The Opposing Self, 3-43. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Javanovic, 1955.
  • Turley, Richard Marggraf. ‘Strange Longin’: Keats and Feet. Studies in Romanticism 41.1 (2002): 89-106.
  • Turley, Richard Marggraf. Keats’ Boyish Imagination. London: Routledge, 2004.
  • Turley, Richard Marggraf. ‘Slippery Steps of the Temple of Fame’: Barry Cornwall and Keats’s Reputation. Keats-Shelley Review. 22:1 (2008): 64-81.
  • Turley, Richard Marggraf. Bright Stars: John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture. Liverpool UP, 2009. (Usefully investigates the significant popularity of Cornwall relative to other literary figures of the era, and, most significantly, in light of Keats’s struggling poetic identity.)
  • Vendler, Helen. Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot and Plath. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2003.
  • Vendler, Helen. The Odes of John Keats. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1983. (A remarkable series of close yet expansive readings.)
  • Waldoff, Leon. Keats’s Identification with Wordsworth. Keats-Shelley Journal 38 (1989): 47-65.
  • Walker, Carol Kyros. Walking North With Keats. Yale UP, 1992.
  • Wang, Orin. Coming Attractions: ’Lamia’ and Cinematic Sensation. Studies in Romanticism 42:4 (2003): 461-500.
  • Watkins, Daniel P. Keats’s Poetry and the Politics of the Imagination. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 1989.
  • Wasserman, Earl. The Finer Tone: Keats’s Major Poems. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1953.
  • Webb, Timothy. ‘Cutting Figures’: Rhetorical Strategies in Keats’s Letters. In Keats: Bicentenary Readings, ed. Michael O’Neill. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1977, 144-69.
  • White, R. S. Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare. London: Athlone Press, 1987.
  • White, R. S. Like Esculapius of Old: Keats’s Medical Training. Keats-Shelley Review. 12:1 (1998); 15-49.
  • Wolfson, Susan J. Keats the Letter-Writer: Epistolary Poetics. Romanticism Past and Present 6 (1982): 43-61.
  • Wolfson, Susan J., ed. Keats and Politics: A Forum. Studies in Romanticism 25:2 (Summer 1986).
  • Wolfson, Susan J. The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986.
  • Wolfson, Susan J. Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism. Palo Alto: Stanford U P, 1997. (Contains a chapter on Keats’s last poems.)
  • Wolfson, Susan J. Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism. Chapter 6, Teasing Form: The Crisis of Keats’s Last Lyrics: 164-192. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.
  • Wolfson, Susan J. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Cambridge UP, 2001. (Contains a very strong gathering of contributors to Keats studies.)
  • Wolfson, Susan J. Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 2006. (Contains two chapters on Keats and gender.)
  • Wolfson, Susan J., ed. John Keats: A Longman Cultural Edition. New York: Pearson, 2007. (Very profitably intersperses poems, letters, reviews, and other work or the era.)
  • Woof, Robert and Stephen Hebron. John Keats. Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust, 1995.
  • Wu, Duncan. Keats and the ‘Cockney School.’ In The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson, 37-52. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.

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