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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review“Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats is a gathering of seventeen chapters that celebrate not just Keats, but also Jack Stillinger, who passed away in 2020. This memorial volume is, then, not intentionally set off by the various Keats bicentenaries, but it does act as a kind of capstone to them. … Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats is divided into four topical sections, which are fully diverse within themselves … .” (G. Kim Blank, European Romantic Review, Vol. 34 (4), August, 2023)
Table of Contents1. Introduction
Theorizing Keats’s Reading
2. Keats the Reader
3. Keats's Metaphor of Reading
4. Keats's Translational Poetics
5. Rereading Keats's Reading in the Digital Realm.
Keats’s Reading
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
Reading Keats
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”
Contemporary Poetic Responses
15. The Chameleon Poet
16. Writing on Keats, Writing with Keats: Ghostlier Intonations, Marginalia, and Epigraphs Among Friends—Or, My Keats
17. Poems
