On Keats’s Practice and Poetics of Responsibility

G. Douglas Atkins is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, USA, where he taught for 44 years. The winner of several awards for outstanding teaching, he is the author of twenty-two books and co-editor of three others, many of them published by Palgrave Macmillan. He now lives in Greenville, SC, and continues to write.

• Preface.- One: On Putting Keats in Other Words: Essaying toward Reader-Responsibility.- Two: Reading the Letters: “The Vale of Soul-Making”.- Three: Some of the Dangers in “Unperplex[ing] bliss from its neighbour pain”: Reading the Odes Intra- and Inter-textually.- Four: Fleeing into the Storm: Beauty and Truth in “The Eve of St. Agnes”.-  Five: “For Truth’s Sake”: “Lamia” and the Reweaving of the Rainbow.- Bibliography.- Index.