...ever since the letter first appeared in print, in Milnes's Life of 1848: "This is a mere matter of the moment — I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death" (Letters 1:394). Outwardly, Keats might have seemed to his friends to have little reason for such a...

...This begins with a reference to his reviews, spurring him to a celebrated cry of selfconfidence - ' I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death' which indicates how well he understood the nature of their attack. 'It does me not the least harm in...

...mother is reminiscent of Keatss famous remark in a letter to his brother and sister-in-law in 1818: "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." Keats had his annus mirabilis (1818—19), as Plath had her miraculous autumn of 1962. Though Plath's...

...cultural complex that so preoccupied him, Keats's most characteristic prediction resonates strongly. "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death," he writes (163); it is a location with an almost material presence in his thought. "A PERFECT TREASURE...

...John Ashbery It is unlikely that Raymond Roussel ever read John Keats's more-than-accurate prediction: 'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.' Yet in his book Comment j'ai écrit certains de mes livres, published in 1935, two years after his...

...attacks made on me in Blackwood's magazine and the Quarterly Review . . . [are] a mere matter of the moment - I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death" to George and Georgiana Keats, 14 October 1818 (1.393-94) "As to the poetical Character itself, (I...

...written by Reynolds — I do not know who wrote those in the Chronicle — This is a mere matter of the moment — I think I shall be among the English Poets...more into notice and it is a common expression among book men "I wonder the Quarterly should cut its own throat.'* It does me not the least harm in Society...

...of Dreams It is unlikely that Raymond Roussel ever read John Keats's morethan-accurate prediction: "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." Yet in his posthumous book Comment j'ai écrit certains de mes livres, published in 1935, two years...

...Milton and the Grecian Urn the "friendfs] of man." Nor is it accidental that his famous prediction — "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death" — pivots on the word among, as if immortality were a congenial gathering of geniuses rather than...

...continue?" He could not know, of course, but in another sense his posthumous life would go on forever. "I think I shall be among the English poets after my death," he wrote in 1818 to his brother and sister-in-law in America. And so today John Keats is, not merely...