Keats's Places

Richard Marggraf Turley is Professor of Romantic Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is author of several books on the Romantic poets, including Keats’s Boyish Imagination (2004), Bright Stars: John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture (2009), and with Jayne Archer and Howard Thomas, Food and the Literary Imagination (2015). He is also author of a novel set in 1810, The Cunning House (2015). In 2007, he won the Keats-Shelley Prize for poetry.

“The essays in this ranging and enlightening volume remind us that, however freely his imagination roamed, Keats remained, always, locally attached, and anchored in the living and breathing reality of the world in which he lived.” (Chris Townsend, The BARS Review, Vol. 55, 2020)

• 1. Introduction: Keats's Coordinates - Richard Margraff Turley.- 2. John Keats at Winchester - Nicholas Roe.- 3. Keats, Shoots and Leaves - Fiona Stafford.- 4. Keats, the Vale of Health, and the Gentle Gendering of Cockney Coteries - Greg Kucich.- 5. Keats's Muses "In the midst of Meg Merrilies' country": Meg, Mnemosyne, Moneta and Autumn - Heidi Thomson.- 6. Keats's American Ode - Grant F. Scott.- 7. "The End and Aim of Poesy": Keats and Shelley in Dialogue - Michael O'Neill.- 8. Wentworth Place: "A Small Cottage, Pleasantly Situate" - Kenneth Page.- 9. Poetic Genealogies: Keats's Northern Walking Tour - Meiko O'Halloran.- 10. Keats Underway - Richard Margraff Turley.- 11. Keats at Guy's Hospital: Moments, Meetings, Choices and Poems - Hrileena Ghosh.- 12. Keats's "Natural Sculptures": Geology, Vitality and the Scottish Walking Tour - Alexandra Paterson.- 13. Writ in Water, Etched in Stone: John Keats and the Experience of Rome.