The Cambridge Companion to Keats

The Cambridge Companion to Keats is yet another worthy addition to the generally excellent Cambridge Companions to Literature series. Susan J. Wolfson’s volume contains contributions by distinguished scholars and critics from both sides of the Atlantic, and departs in several noteworthy respects from other volumes in the series. Notes on contributors is followed by acknowledgments in which the editor plays fulsome tribute “to the scholarship that has produced the edition of the poems and letters we cite throughout the volume”. Other Cambridge Companions to Literature should take heed of such high standards present throughout this volume. “Texts and abbreviations” is...