Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats

Beth Lau is Professor of English Emerita at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She has published numerous studies of Keats’s books, reading, and marginalia, including Keats’s Reading of the Romantic Poets (1991) and Keats’s Paradise Lost (1998). Her other research interests include Jane Austen and cognitive-evolutionary approaches to literature.Greg Kucich is Professor of English and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His publications include Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism (Penn State UP 1991) and numerous books and articles on the Keats-Hunt Circle, Romantic-era drama, and Romantic-era women writers.Daniel Johnson is English; Digital Humanities; and Film, Television, and Theatre Librarian at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He has published articles on long eighteenth-century literature and digital humanities. He also co-edited (with Beth Lau and Greg Kucich) a digital edition of Keats’s annotated copy of Paradise Lost.

“Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats is a gathering of seventeen chapters that celebrate not just Keats, but also Jack Stillinger, who passed away in 2020. This memorial volume is, then, not intentionally set off by the various Keats bicentenaries, but it does act as a kind of capstone to them. … Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats is divided into four topical sections, which are fully diverse within themselves … .” (G. Kim Blank, European Romantic Review, Vol. 34 (4), August, 2023)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Keats the Reader.- 3. Keats's Metaphor of Reading.- 4. Keats's Translational Poetics.- 5. Rereading Keats's Reading in the Digital Realm.- 6. “Jack a Lanthern” Verse: Of Pots and Precursors and Poetic Value in Isabella.- 7. Keats Reading Chaucer: Troilus and Arrested Time in The Eve of St. Agnes.- 8. Keats’s Confrontation with Nothingness in “When I Have Fears” and Other Poems.- 9. Seeing Spots: Milton, Addison, Keats, and the Emergence of the Sublime Pathetic.- 10. Keats as a Reader of Novels.- 11. Late Reading: John Clare and John Keats.- 12. Keats’s Formal Legacy and the Victorians.- 13. “A Season Changes Color to No End”: Keats’s “To Autumn,” Wallace Stevens, and the Post-Romantic Imagination.- 14. Modern Experimental Poets Reading Keats: “Misers of Sound and Syllable”.- 15. The Chameleon Poet.- 16. Writing on Keats, Writing with Keats: Ghostlier Intonations, Marginalia, and Epigraphs Among Friends—Or, My Keats.- 17. Poems