Victorian Keats

This book traces Victorian responses to John Keats’s poetry, particularly the sexualized language critics used to describe his work. While distrusted for his effeminacy, Keats remained a powerful influence on writers including Tennyson, Arnold, Hopkins, Pater, and Wilfred Owen, who adapted his example in different ways through the nineteenth century. Through attentive literary readings, it reveals how admiration, imitation, and resistance shaped Keats’s impact on Victorian poetry.