Keats

This book tackles the age-old interpretative problem of pleasure in Keats poetry by placing him in the context of the liberal, leisured and luxurious culture of Hunts circle. Challenging the standard narrative which attribute Keats astonishing poetic development to his separation from Hunt, the author cogently argues that Keats, profoundly imbued with Hunts bourgeois ethic and aesthetic, remained a poet of sensuous pleasure through to the end of his short career.