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Synopsis
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Keats's 'Posthumous Life': Corpus and Body Keats, Sexuality, and Tennyson's Reticence 'Curled Minion': Keats and Arnold's Dandyism 'The Sordidness of Things': Keats, Hopkins, and the Landscapes of Desire Keats, Symonds, and a Language for Desire 'A Poet's Heart': Keats and Pater's Eroticism Keats, Wilfred Owen, and a Tradition of Desire Afterword Appendix I Appendix II Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
This book explores the sexual implications of reading Keats. Keats was lambasted by critics throughout the nineteenth century for his sensuousness and his 'effeminacy'. The Victorians simultaneously identified with, imitated, and distrusted the 'unmanly' poet. Writers, among them Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, and Wilfred Owen came to terms with Keats's work by creating out of the 'effeminate' poet a sexual and literary ally.