Keats, Narrative and Audience

"In a richly suggestive reading, Andrew Bennett's Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing, locates Keats's poetry in the tension between narrative and lyric, audience and poet, public and private. The strength of Bennett's book is his fresh articulation of familiar Keatsian instabilities, oppositions, and paradoxes as an effect of what Bennett terms Keats's 'solecism,'..." The Wordsworth Circle

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: figures of reading; 1. Narrative and audience in Romantic poetics; 2. Keats's letters; 3. The early verse and Endymion; 4. 'Isabella'; 5. 'The Eve of St Agnes'; 6. 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'; 7. The spring odes; 8. The 'Hyperion' poems; 9. 'To Autumn'; Epilogue: allegories of Reading ('Lamia'); Notes; Bibliography, Index.