Opening the poem to contemporary reading and readers opens the context that, to Shelley's mind, he shared most intimately with Keats. |
Monkhouse pointed out that Keats and Shelley, more than Hunt, reaped the rewards of his revivification of the heroic couplet. |
Finally, one turned and Julian Keats found himself looking at letters, yellowing bundles of them, all in chronological order. |
Perhaps there is, at any rate in the earlier letters, something of this unkemptness in Keats as an epistoler. |
Instead of subjecting description to action, as do Homer and Virgil in their narrativizing descriptions, Keats defamiliarizes the adjective and lingers on it. |
And at its best, its writing has the lyricism of Keats, the precision of Williams, or the echoic qualities of haiku. |