Dec 27, 2009

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare | Keats, John

Keats, John (1795–1821),
English poet. Keats is best known in this context for his celebration (after Hazlitt) in his letters and marginalia of a Shakespeare of protean sympathies, generous redundancy of imagination, and natural feeling, declared the epitome of ‘negative capability’—a ‘chameleon’ poetic stance which he contrasted to the egotistical Milton and Wordsworth and to which he himself aspired.

Nicola Watson

Bibliography

White, R. S., Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare (1987)