John Keats (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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In The Use of Poetry (1933), T. S. Eliot referred to the letters of John Keats as “the most notable and the most important ever written by any English poet,” primarily because “there is hardly one statement of Keats about poetry, which . . . will not be found to be true.” The letters also offer an important gloss on specific poems and have thus become important for understanding Keats. Besides many passing comments of brilliance, the central concept of the letters is...

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