Keatss Reading / Reading Keats

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