This book explores John Keatss reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers.  It also examines later writers engagements with Keatss poetry. Finally, the book honors the distinguished Keats scholar Jack Stillinger and includes an essay surveying his career as well as a bibliography of his major publications. The first section of the volume, Theorizing Keatss Reading, contains four essays that identify major patterns in the poets reading habits and responses to other works. The next section, Keatss Reading, consists of six essays that examine Keatss work in relation to specific earlier authors and texts. The four essays in the third section, Reading Keats, consider how Keatss poetry influenced the work of later writers and became embedded in British and American literary traditions. The final section of the book, Contemporary Poetic Responses, features three scholar-poets who, in poetry and/or prose commentary, discuss and exemplify Keatss impact on their work.

Beth Lau is Professor of English Emerita at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She has published numerous studies of Keatss books, reading, and marginalia, including Keatss Reading of the Romantic Poets (1991) and Keatss Paradise Lost (1998). Her other research interests include Jane Austen and cognitive-evolutionary approaches to literature.

Greg Kucich is Professor of English and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His publications include Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism (Penn State UP 1991) and numerous books and articles on the Keats-Hunt Circle, Romantic-era drama, and Romantic-era women writers.

Daniel Johnson is English; Digital Humanities; and Film, Television, and Theatre Librarian at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He has published articles on long eighteenth-century literature and digital humanities. He also co-edited (with Beth Lau and Greg Kucich) a digital edition of Keatss annotated copy of Paradise Lost.  

1. Introduction.- 2. Keats the Reader.- 3. Keats's Metaphor of Reading.- 4. Keats's Translational Poetics.- 5. Rereading Keats's Reading in the Digital Realm.- 6. Jack a Lanthern Verse: Of Pots and Precursors and Poetic Value in Isabella.- 7. Keats Reading Chaucer: Troilus and Arrested Time in The Eve of St. Agnes.- 8. Keatss Confrontation with Nothingness in When I Have Fears and Other Poems.- 9. Seeing Spots: Milton, Addison, Keats, and the Emergence of the Sublime Pathetic.- 10. Keats as a Reader of Novels.- 11. Late Reading: John Clare and John Keats.- 12. Keatss Formal Legacy and the Victorians.- 13. A Season Changes Color to No End: Keatss To Autumn, Wallace Stevens, and the Post-Romantic Imagination.- 14. Modern Experimental Poets Reading Keats: Misers of Sound and Syllable.- 15. The Chameleon Poet.- 16. Writing on Keats, Writing with Keats: Ghostlier Intonations, Marginalia, and Epigraphs Among FriendsOr, My Keats.- 17. Poems