Title: The persistence of poetry
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, history and criticism, POETRY, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, Languages & Literatures, English Literature
People: John Keats (1795-1821)