If, as George Gissing once wrote, "to like Keats is a test of
fitness for understanding poetry", then the essays collected in
this volume suggest that literary criticism remains a lively and
vigorous endeavor. Written by a broad range of prominent scholars
-- senior Romanticists as well as younger critics and major poets
-- the essays offer a fresh reevaluation of the nature and
importance of John Keats's achievement. The idealistic aesthete or
humanistic hero admired by earlier generations of readers develops
into a much richer, more complex image of the poet. The product of
a continuing critical dialogue, this new Keats attests not only to
his own enduring appeal but to the persistent vitality of poetry
itself amid the distractions of a fragmented postmodern culture.
An introduction by Robert M. Ryan reviews the history of Keats
scholarship, situating new critical assessments by M. H. Abrams,
Walter Jackson Bate, Eavan Boland, David Bromwich, Hermione de
Almeida, Terence Alan Hoagwood, Elizabeth Jones, Debbie Lee, Philip
Levine, Donald H- Reiman, Ronald A. Sharp, George Steiner, Jack
Stillinger, Aileen Ward, and Susan Wolfson.
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