John Keats and the culture of dissent

This book overturns received ideas about Keats as a poet of `beauty' and `sensuousness', highlighting the little studied political perspectives of his works. It recovers the vigorous, pugnacious voices of Keats's poetry, and shows why the poems outraged his early readers. The book gives new information about Keats's life, provocative readings of his poems, and ensures that Keats will hitherto be regarded as the most radical and disturbing of the English Romantic poets.