CONTENTS:

Preface
Introduction
Essays
     Keatsian thresholds
     The sense of transience in the poems of 1819
     John Keats: two types of sexuality
     The two Marys in "The Eve of St Agnes" – the place of Christian imagery in Keats’s definition of love
     Romantic escape and corrective truth in Keats’s odes and narrative poems
     Desire and denial in the odes and other poems
     Keats’s letters and poetry: a life of sensations
     Sensuous language in Keats’s odes
     "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion" progress through suffering
     Saying and meaning in "To Autumn"
A practical guide to essay writing
     Introduction
     How to plan an essay
     Style sheet
Suggestions for further reading