A marvelous collection of contemporary essays both illuminating the nature of Keats's genius and also providing individual explications of his major works. Among the selections KEATS by T.S. ELIOT / KEATS by DOUGLAS BUSH / THE ODE ON A GRECIAN URN by EARL WASSERMAN / LAMIA by DAVID PERKINS / THE ODE TO AUTUMN by WALTER JACKSON BATE / THE TWO HYPERIONS by D.G. JAMES / CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT DATES / SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY and more.
Literary critic Walter Jackson Bate twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, first for his work on the Romantic poet John Keats, and later for that on lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson.