John Keats

...Keats's friends and his doctors, all of them, clung to the belief that it was not his lungs but his stomach or his mind that was at the root of his illness, and that this belief was clung to even by Keats himself, against his better knowledge of how much worse his condition was, how fatal. --Christopher Ricks, Keats's Afterlife, The Washington Post, July 3, 2009, review of Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, by Stanley Plumly, at Review-a-Day


Keats wrote not only superb poems but also wonderful, witty, revealing letters, out of which the poetry sometimes arises like a spontaneous growth. He considered and anatomised the nature of his art all through his brief career. --The Economist, Through death to life, August 21, 2008, review of Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, by Stanley Plumly

Keats's Afterlife, by Christopher Ricks, The New York Review of Books, June 11, 2009, review of Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, by Stanley Plumly

The Eve of St. Agnes—Green Bay, 2008: John Keats for Today’s Reader. Posted by Avery Cardinal Dulles on January 28, 2008, 2:22 PM, First Things