A selective list of articles on the English Romantic poet John Keats, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Twelve scholarly essays on "Ode on a Grecian Urn," focused on teaching the poem, from Romantic Circles, Oct. 2003.
Formichella, Joe. Formichella proposes an interpretation of La Belle Dame Sans Merci that considers its two versions. From Prometheus Unplugged, at Emory Univ
Gigante, Denise. "The Endgame of Taste: Keats, Sartre, Beckett." Romanticism On the Net 24 (November 2001)
Kenyon Jones, Christine. "'When this world shall be former': Catastrophism as imaginative theory for the younger Romantics." An essay discusses how early nineteenth century ideas of evolution, associated with geology and palaeontology, influenced the writing of Keats and other romantics. Romanticism On the Net 24 (November 2001)
Kimberly, Caroline E. "Effeminacy, Masculinity, and Homosocial Bonds: The (Un)Intentional Queering of John Keats." On the development of Keats's reputation among Victorian writers. "By closely examining the publications and private correspondence of the Keats Circle during the 1820s and 1830s, one can see various patterns to the biographical development of Keats, particularly in relation to their subject's masculinity. From the widespread eulogies immediately following the poet's death, to Hunt's 1828 biographical sketch in Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, to Brown's 1836 biography manuscript, threads are spun simultaneously of Keats as icon of middle-class masculinity, perpetually youthful Aesthetic ideal, and object of queered desire." Romanticism on the Net, special issue on Queer Romanticism, Issues 36-37 (November 2004-February 2005)
Kucich, Greg. "'The Wit in the Dungeon': Leigh Hunt and the Insolent Politics of Cockney Coteries." Romanticism On the Net 14 (May 1999)
Mizukoshi, Ayumi. "The Cockney Politics of Gender -- the Cases of Hunt and Keats," Mizukoshi discusses upward mobility, liberal and middle-class values, and the idea of the gentleman in the cases of Leigh Hunt and John Keats. In Romanticism on the Net 14 (May 1999)
O'Rourke, James. Introduction to "'Ode on a Grecian Urn': Hypercanonicity & Pedagogy" Special edition of Romantic Circles on teaching Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," includes twelve articles, Oct. 2003
Pescarmona, K. Denee. "Et[urn]al Existence: Keats and Dialogic Ekphrasis in 'Ode on a Grecian Urn,'" Pescarmona considers "The Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Keats's attempt to achieve a feeling of permanence through objects of art that are timeless. From Prometheus Unplugged, at Emory Univ
Reynolds, Nichole. "'And seal the hushed casket of my soul:' The Enchantment of the Tomb in John Keats's 'Eve of St. Agnes,' John Keats's narrative poem "The Eve of Saint Agnes" reflects an interest for British art during the Romantic period, in funeral monuments, tomb sculpture, gothic style, and medievalism. From Prometheus Unplugged, at Emory Univ
Ricks, Christopher. Publisher's blurb for Keats and Embarrassment (Oxford)
Ricks, Christopher. On Christopher Ricks' Allusion to the Poets which covers Keats along with Dryden, Pope, Burns, Wordsworth, Byron, and Tennyson. Reviewed in Threepenny Review by P.N. Firbank, Spring 2003
Sandy, Mark. "Dream Lovers and Tragic Romance: Negative Fictions in Keats's Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Isabella." Sandy contends that the Romantic poets revived the traditions of the romance world, affirming their own beliefs in the dualities of innocence and experience, life and death, surface and depth, and the ideal and the real. For Keats these relations are often portrayed as an auto-erotic journey that indicates the risks of confusing fiction and fact. In Romanticism on the Net 20 (November 2000)
Steyaert, Kris. "Poetry as Enforcement: Conquering the Muse in Keats's 'Ode to Psyche'" Critics have often characterized Keats's writing as effeminate, but fail to discern the "masculine" undercurrent in his poems, asserts this author. In Romanticism on the Net 1 (February1996)
Turley, Richard Marggraf. "'Full-grown lambs': Immaturity and 'To Autumn'" Turley discusses Keats's frequently derided immaturity, or whether the poet had at last "grown up," in the Ode to Autumn. In Romanticism on the Net no 28, 2002
Vendler, Helen. Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath. (Harvard UP, 2003). Reviewed by Andrew J. Miller. In Romanticism on The Net, Issues 32-33 (November 2003-February 2004)
Wootton, Sarah. A substantial introduction to Keats from the Literary Encyclopedia
An introduction to Keats and his odes from Dr. Melani, CUNY
On Keats's development as a poet and the friendship between Keats and Leigh Hunt, from the Loyola Univ. Student Historical Journal, 1984-1985, by F. Joseph Byrnes, S. J.
The Keats-Shelley house in Rome where Keats spent the last months of his life and which is now a museum
Older criticism: Introduction to Keats's major and minor works including Endymion, Isabella; Letters, Hyperion, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Lamia, Odes, Sonnets and a biography. From The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)
Saintsbury, G. On verse form in Keats and other romantics, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)
A brief biography and introduction to John Keats from the Academy of American Poets
Romanticism on the Net an international, peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies, edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra. An impressive scholarly enterprise devoted to English literature of the Romantic period, the journal has been making essays freely available since 1996
Romantic Circles, "a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture," is an innovative publication on topics in Romanticism. Edited by Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones and Carl Stahmer
Web site for the scholarly journal The Wordworth Circle
Romanticism on the Net an international, peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies, edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra. One of the most impressive scholarly enterprises devoted to English literature on the internet, the journal has been making essays freely available since 1996
Romantic Circles an innovative publication on topics in Romanticism from Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones and Carl Stahmer
"A Romantic Natural History" focuses on relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Darwin, with articles on Keats and other Romantics. By Professor Ashton Nichols
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