In this talk, Professor Nicholas Roe will discuss his new biography on the Romantic poet John Keats.

 

 

Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, founding editor of the journal Romanticism, and the author of several other books that have helped shape the course of Romantic studies over the last twenty five years, beginning with Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (Oxford, 1988), and including The Politics of Nature: William Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries (Basingstoke, 1992), Keats and History (Cambridge, 1995), John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (Oxford, 1997), and Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt (London, 2005). He is currently writing a new biography of John Keats for Yale University Press, and is Chair of the Keats House Foundation, Hampstead.

 

 

Enquiries: Neil Ramsey, School of Cultural Inquiry

Phone: 6125 4786

Email: neil.ramsey@anu.edu.au