During the five years of his phenomenal poetic development, an intense drive to mastery absorbed Keats in continual and largely systematic experimentation with the same and similar materials. This work is an analysis of his poesis from the beginning in his search for immediacy, with emphasis not so much on what he worked with but how and why he changed it. In later poetry the author will show the differences and point out the development.
"This book will be welcomed by all students of Keats who want to understand the process by which Keats struggled to greatness. Yost traces Keats's developing art in amazing, painstaking detail..." (C. Eugene Tanzy, Florida State University)
" Keats's Apprenticeship is the product of long maturation: a good three decades of immersion in Keats's poetry and of pondering his development as a poet during those miraculous final five years... The result is a richly woven fabric, something like medieval tapestries in which one observes the whole story, beginning to end, all in one view." (Harry R. Hoppe, Michigan State University)
" Keats's Apprenticeship is the product of long maturation: a good three decades of immersion in Keats's poetry and of pondering his development as a poet during those miraculous final five years... The result is a richly woven fabric, something like medieval tapestries in which one observes the whole story, beginning to end, all in one view." (Harry R. Hoppe, Michigan State University)