John Keats’s famous epitaph-Here lies One Whose Name was writ in\nWater-helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius\ncut off before his time. In this close narrative study, Stanley\nPlumly meditates on the chances for poetic immortality, an idea\nthat finds its purest expression in Keats. Incisive in its\nobservations and beautifully written, Posthumous Keats is an ode to\nan unsuspecting young poet-a man who, against the odds of his\nculture and critics, managed to achieve the unthinkable: the\nelevation of the lyric poem to sublime and tragic status.

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