Reviews
"few readers can fail to be thrilled to watch one major poet, in his early twenties, vigorously finding himself in his great predecessor's masterwork. Professor Lau had given us a welcome and instructive piece of scholarship." - Kritikon Litterarum
--Kritikon Litterarum
"a valuable study of Keat's marginalia in his copy of Milton's poem." "Undoubtedly this book makes a large and significant contribution to our understanding of poetic relations and intertextual dynamics." - Year's Work in English Studies
--Year's Work in English Studies
"Lau's finest achievement is how she brings to bear her talents as an impressive reader of primary textual evidence in her interrogation of larger theoretical questions of intertextuality and 'anxiety of influence.'" -- New Books in Nineteenth-Century Studies
--New Books in Nineteenth-Century Studies
"A work of conscientious scholarship that will long remain genuinely valuable to scholars in the field." -- The Wordsworth Circle
--The Wordsworth Circle
"Whether one's concern is with Keats's developing aesthetic, with poetic influence as traditionally understood, or with the cultural matrix of his literary production-a matrix that included the constant and enthusiastic interchange of letters, drafts of poems, and annotated books among members of Keat's circle-this volume will stimulate a provocative reassessment of Keat's work." -Review of English Studies
--Review of English Studies
"This is an original, challenging, lucid book, a 'must' for anybody who needs to know all there is to know about Keats's odes." -Modern Language Review
--Modern Language Review
"Lau's commentary and notes to the marginalia are informative, detailed and insightful" - Romanticism
"Lau's book reminds us of the importance of an alternative mode of response, in which the seemingly dry-as-dust work of scholarly retrieval can itself give fresh insight and impetus to one's critical (and perhaps even 'poetic') responses." - Romanticism
--Romanticism
"Keats's Paradise Lost is a valuable contribution in at least two ways: it makes easily available a more complete representation of Keats's marginalia to that poem, and it codifies gracefully a traditional view of Keats's writings and their meanings." Terence Hoagwood, Texas A&M University
--Journal of English and Germanic Philology
"An important body of work whose contributions mobilize pivotal areas in representing Irish culture via the shifing axes of a (post)-colonial/(post)modern/(post)nationalist Ireland."- James Joyce Literary Supplement
--James Joyce Literary Supplement
" An indispensable scholarly aid to Keatsians and romanticists in general. University of Florida, is snapping up some of the finest works of Keatsian scholarship emerging from the United States. This is an impressively learned book, not only in the sense that its author is alert to scholarly minutiae, but in that he is adept in matters of critical debate. The University Press of Florida ,not one which to the best of my knowledge had any particular investment in Keats studies before 1998, is to be congratulated on its publication of two volumes that libraries should regard as essential acquisitions. " - The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
--The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies