This is the first book to consider the pervasive influence of period Celticism upon Keats' work, from the Druidism that underlies his unfinished epics to the Celtic-derived folklore that his poetry draws upon. Christine Gallant shows that more than two hundred and fifty traditional folklore motifs of the faerie fill his major poems, as well as minor epistolary ones that have been critically neglected.

Christine Gallant is Professor of English Literature at Georgia State University.

Acknowledgements * The Evidence for Celticism in Keats * Romantic Celticism in Context * Keats as Bard * The Native Muse * Faery Lands Forlorn * Privileging the Celtic * Bibliography * Index