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. 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.)
  • 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.)
  • 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.)
  • 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.)
  • 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.
  • 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.)
  • 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.)
  • Hill, Rosemary. Keats, Antiquarianism, and the Picturesque. EIC 64:2 (2014): 119-37.
  • 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.)
  • 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.” 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.)
  • 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. In Great Shakespeareans, Vol. IV: Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats. Ed. Adrian Poole, 109-159. London: Continuum, 2010.
  • Lau, Beth. “Analyzing Keats’s Library by Genre.” Keats-Shelley Journal 65 (2016): 126-51. (Indispensable for serious Keats scholarship.)
  • 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.’ Keats-Shelley Review 33.1 (2019): 114-121. (Complicates Keats’s engagement with birdsong, language, music, and the desire for meaning without sensation.)
  • 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. ‘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.
  • 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.)
  • 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.
  • Rancière, Jacques. The Politics of the Spider. Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (2011): 239-250.
  • Rejack, Brian and Michael Theune, eds. Keats’s Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives. London: Liverpool UP, 2019. (A varied and valuable collection that represent the expandability of Keats’s key term.)
  • Rejack, Brian and 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.)
  • Roberson, Jessica. Necrobotany and the green burials of John Keats. Nineteenth-Century Contexts (July 2020) DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2020.1782016.
  • 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. (Gives a very useful historical account of critical engagement about Keats’s political identity.)
  • 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.)
  • Schulkins, Rachel. Keats, Modesty, and Masturbation. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
  • 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.)
  • 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.)
  • 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.
  • White, R. S. Keats: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
  • Wolfson, Susan J. Reading John Keats. Cambridge UP, 2015. (Masterful and lively readings of Keats’s poetry.)
  • Wolfson, Susan J. Yeats’s Latent Keats / Keats’s Latent Yeats. PMLA 131.3 (2016): 603-621. (A development of this essay also appears as a chapter in Wolfson’s book Romantic Shades and Shadows [Johns Hopkins UP, 2018], which also has other discussions of 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.)
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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. 2.25 Studies in Romanticism (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.
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