John Keats in Context

Michael O'Neill is Professor of English at the University of Durham, and has published widely on Romantic, Victorian, and twentieth-century poetry. His works include The Human Mind's Imaginings: Conflict and Achievement in Shelley's Poetry (1989), Romanticism and the Self- Conscious Poem (1997), and The All-Sustaining Air (2007), and, as editor, The Cambridge History of English Poetry (Cambridge, 2010). He is also the co-author (with Michael D. Hurley) of Poetic Form (Cambridge, 2012) and the co-editor (with Anthony Howe and with the assistance of Madeleine Callaghan) of The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). His latest collection of poems is Gangs of Shadow (2014).

Part I. Life, Letters, Texts: 1. Biographies and film Sarah Wootton; 2. Formative years and medical training Nicholas Roe and Hrileena Ghosh; 3. Surgery, science and suffering Nicholas Roe; 4. Fanny Brawne and other women Heidi Thomson; 5. Mortality Shahidha Bari; 6. Travel Jeffrey C. Robinson; 7. Letters Madeleine Callaghan; 8. Manuscripts and publishing history John Barnard; Part II. Cultural Contexts: 9. The Hunt circle and the Cockney School Gregory Leadbetter; 10. London Timothy Webb; 11. Politics Richard Cronin; 12. Sociability Grant F. Scott; 13. The visual and plastic arts Nancy Moore Goslee; 14. Religion and myth Anthony John Harding; Part III. Ideas and Poetics: 15. The Enlightenment and history Porscha Fermanis; 16. Keats and Hazlitt Duncan Wu; 17. Imagination, beauty and truth Charles W. Mahoney; 18. The poetical character Seamus Perry; 19. The senses and sensation Stacey McDowell; 20. Prosody and versification in the Odes Michael O'Neill; Part IV. Poetic Contexts: 21. Poetic precursors (1): Dante and Shakespeare Chris Murray; 22. Poetic precursors (2): Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope Beth Lau; 23. Contemporaries (1) (and immediate predecessors): Tighe, Radcliffe, Southey, Burns, Chatterton, Hunt, Wordsworth Michael O'Neill; 24. Contemporaries (2): Coleridge, Byron, Shelley Jane Stabler; 25. Ballad, romance and narrative Andrew Bennett; 26. Epic and tragedy Susan J. Wolfson; 27. Lyrical genres Christopher R. Miller; Part V. Influence: 28. Tennyson to Wilde Herbert F. Tucker; 29. Hardy, Edward Thomas, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney Michael O'Neill; 30. American writing Mark Sandy; Part VI. Critical Reception: 31. Contemporary reviews Kelvin Everest; 32 Critical reception, 1821–1900 Francis O'Gorman; 33. Keats criticism, 1900–63 Matthew Scott; 34. Keats criticism, post-1963 Richard Marggraf Turley.