On first looking into Plumly’s Keats

Posthumous Keats by Stanley PlumlyTed Genoways of VQR fame reviews a new biography of Keats in this Sunday’s Washington Post Book World:

Of course, his friends and future readers allowed Keats no such erasure, but the poet could never have known this. And this bitter conundrum — the poet’s ardent wish to glimpse his death while still alive and his friends’ equal desire to keep something of the poet alive after his death — is the subject of Stanley Plumly’s obsessive, intricate, intimate and brilliant new book, Posthumous Keats, forthcoming in May.

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