This book explores John Keatsâs reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers. It also examines later writersâ engagements with Keatsâs 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, âTheorizing Keatsâs Reading,â contains four essays that identify major patterns in the poetâs reading habits and responses to other works. The next section, âKeatsâs Reading,â consists of six essays that examine Keatsâs work in relation to specific earlier authors and texts. The four essays in the third section, âReading Keats,â consider how Keatsâs poetry influenced the work of later writers and became embedded in British and American literary traditions. The final section of the book, âContemporary Poetic Responses,â features three scholar-poets who, in poetry and/or prose commentary, discuss and exemplify Keatsâs impact on their work.
