Poetic Language and Political Engagement the Poetry of Keats in Bloomington, MN

In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal
Annals of the Fine Arts
, whilst the poems after
Endymion
reveal a poet more concerned with the nature of poetic representation—its why and wherefore.