
This study offers an approachable reassessment of Keats' writing with particular emphasis on gender identity and sexuality. John Whale locates Keats' poetry and letters in his contemporary friendship groupings and forms of masculinity. Whale addresses all the major poems, gives...

This book offers an exciting reassessment of Keats with particular emphasis on gender identity and sexuality. Traditionally, Keats has been more readily associated with the 'feminine' than any other canonical male English poet. This feminization was always likely, given his...