Volume 21, Number 15 · October 3, 1974
British Blushes
By Karl Miller
Keats and Embarrassment
by Christopher Ricks
Oxford University Press, 232 pp., $12.00
Keats is 'an often delightful, if often awkward, decorative poet.' This is what Kingsley Amis thinks, or was once awkwardly prepared to say. Christopher Ricks once protested at his saying so, and his present essay thinks very differently of Keats's verse. He accepts that it is awkward, and it is precisely the awkwardness of Keats to which he addresses himself. But then the awkwardness of Keats is shown to have dimensions which Amis's remark would hardly lead one to expect.
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