Keats's boyish imagination

"John Keats, famously, is the poet who aspired to, and managed to achieve, a supreme maturity; who progressed from the 'namby-pamby' early lyrics to the 'calm power' of the great Odes and the Hyperion poems. His 'maturity' has become a cornerstone of recent political appraisals of his work. This book explores its subject over a range of poetical and psychological terrain to contend that immaturity - the 'Boyish imagination' - is not only a more appropriate place from which to scrutinize Keats's political consciousness, but is itself the emphatic site of that consciousness." "This book will be of essential interest to academics and students of Romanticism."--BOOK JACKET.