Table of Contents

Preface1A Poetry of Sensation32The Chemistry of the Poetic Process303The Early Verse724The Allegory of Endymion905The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds1176The Northern Walking Tour1327The First Hyperion1558Romance as Wish Fulfillment: The Eve of St. Agnes1989From The Eve of Saint Mark to "La Belle Dame sans Merci"22110Romantic Irony: The Great Odes of the Spring24211Comic Irony: Lamia29212Tragic Irony: The Fall of Hyperion310Epilogue. "To Autumn"336Afterword (1994)343Index347

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This is still simply the best book written on Keats. With a figure as important and as consistently attractive to students as Keats, to have written a book that has stood unrivalled for a generation is a real distinction. -- Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania This study has yet to be superseded in studies of Keats. -- Susan Wolfson, Princeton University

About the Author

Stuart M. Sperry is Professor of English at Indiana University.

Reviews

"A book of great and possibly final importance in Keats studies... "--The Times Literary Supplement "Among comprehensive critical studies of the past twenty years, Stuart M. Sperry's Keats the Poet has been a standard reference, rooted in mainstream criticism but pointing the way to much that became central in the revisionary criticism of the years since its publication."--Walter H. Evert and Jack W. Rhodes, MLA