John Keats Without Compass

John Keats Without Compass reframes Keats’s work using modern and contemporary avant-garde principles to show that Keats was in fact avant-garde for his time and that many modern poets are actually part of a legacy of radical Romantic poets.

In John Keats Without Compass, Romantics scholar Jeffrey C. Robinson reframes John Keats’s influential theory of “negative capability” by placing his work in conversation with the work of modern experimentalists and thinkers such as Emily Dickinson, Arth...