Keats's Boyish Imagination

<p>For many readers John Keats's achievement is to have attainted a supreme poetic maturity at so young an age. Canonical poems of resignation and acceptance such as 'To Autumn' are traditionally seen as examples <em>par excellence</em> of this maturity. In this highly innovative study however Marggraf Turley examines how for Keats an insistence on 'boyishness' in the midst of apparent mature imagery is the very essence of his political contestation of the literary establishment.</p>