Reception and Poetics in Keats

the long version

Occasioned by the celebration of Keats's 200th birthday (31 October 1995), Jeffrey C. Robinson's Reception and Poetics in Keats: My Ended Poet begins with an extended reading of some of the many praise and commemorative poems (collected in an appendix here) to or about Keats written from the time of his early death up to the present day. Keats, the poet-who-died-too-young, produced a poetry of closure and finality, elegiac and autumnal. But Robinson focuses, in the second part of the book, on Keats as one who anticipates the visionary open-form poetry of some of the twentieth-century's major experimental poets.