Consuming Keats

Nineteenth-Century Representations in Art and Literature

S. Wootton

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9781403919137
• eBook ISBN: 9780230598492
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This book explores the impact of Keats on authors and artists from 1821 to the end of the First World War. It examines the work of authors including Shelley, Browning and Thomas Hall Caine, and artists Holman Hunt and Rossetti. The study also includes tributes to Keats by women authors and artists such as Christina Rossetti and Jessie Marion King.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Plates
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Keats’s Posthumous Life of Elegy
• 2 Pre-Raphaelite Visions of Keats’s Poetry
• 3 Rossetti’s Influence on Keats’s Posthumous Reputation
• 4 Keats’s Belle Dame as Femme Fatale
• Appendix 1: Thomas Hall Caine, ‘John Keats’
• Appendix 2: Robert Browning, ‘Popularity’
• Appendix 3: Christina Rossetti, ‘On Keats’
• Appendix 4: Alice Meynell, ‘On Keats’s Grave’
• Appendix 5: A. C. Swinburne, ‘In Sepulcretis’
• Appendix 6: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘John Keats’
• Appendix 7: Oscar Wilde, ‘The Grave of Keats’ ,‘Endymion’ and ‘The Garden of Eros’
• Appendix 8: Thomas Hardy, ‘At the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves of Shelley and Keats’
• Appendix 9: Thomas Hall Caine, ‘To OMB’
• Appendix 10: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ‘The King and the Siren’
• Appendix 11: Tony Harrison, ‘A Kumquat for John Keats’
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index