SCOPE: John Keats accomplished the achievement of becoming one of the greatest English poets before he died prematurely at age twenty-five. Love and the quest for immortality are dominant themes in his poetry. Ode to a Nightingale, and Hyperion are two of his more famous works.  CIRCULATING BOOKS  Books of John Keats’ works are listed in our on-line catalog under “Keats, John,” and under individual titles.

Some representative books from the circulating collection located upstairs in the library are:

Keats, John. Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

O’Neill, Judith. Critics on Keats. Coral Gables, Fla: University of Miami Press, 1968.

Wasserman, Earl R. The Finer Tone: Keats’ Major Poems. Westport, Conn: 
Greenwood Press, 1983.

CRITICAL SOURCES 

PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 96 British romantic Poets, 1789-1813

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the links for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

• English Literature
• Literature-General

WEB SITES 

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Covers the major internet resources in the field, including authors, movements, and collections of electronic literary texts. Essential to researchers in English or American literature.

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
Authored by Alan Liu from the University of California, this is an excellent and very comprehensive literature site with links to thousands of web sites in all areas of the humanities. Easily accessed and easy to navigate. The homepage links to menus from 25 areas, from anthropology to women's studies.

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Updated 08/20/2007