Keats's poetry is compiled in a definitive edition published by the Oxford University Press titled The Poetry of John Keats. The first edition was released in 1939, with a second edition following in 1958, which included minor corrections noted in the preface by H.W. Garrod.

John D. Jump, a renowned British critic, published a concise volume in 1974 called The Ode. This book traces the history of the poetic form from ancient Greece to the twentieth century, providing readers with an extensive understanding of odes.

Another prominent critic, this time American, is Cleanth Brooks. In 1947, he published a book on poetic forms titled The Well-Wrought Urn. Although the title refers to a specific poem, Brooks's study of Keats is only one of eleven chapters. This work is essential for any student studying formal poetry.

For those interested in both Greek mythology and modern literature, Lilian Feder's 1971 book, Ancient Myth in Modern Poetry, examines mainly twentieth-century authors. Starting with Freud and Jung, Feder explores how ancient stories are perhaps more "alive" now than they were during Keats's time. The poets studied include Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Auden.

The Use of Poetry and The Use of Criticism is a 1933 collection of essays by the brilliant modern poet T.S. Eliot. It includes a chapter on Shelley and Keats, offering a sharp contemporary perspective on these two Romantic writers.