The persistence of poetry
Subtitle: bicentennial essays on Keats
By: edited by Robert M. Ryan and Ronald A. Sharp.
Contributors: Ryan, Robert M., 1941-; Sharp, Ronald A.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: 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 also to the persistent vitality of poetry itself amid the distractions of a fragmented postmodern culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.