There is an unforgivably large number of books on Keats, and the author tries to justify this addition in the body of the text. 'Keats' is part of the Literature in Perspective series, one that endeavours to supply readers with a wider knowledge of the context of literature in order to make it more accessible to them.
Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and Visiting Fellow Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.