John Keats and Romantic Scotland - Hardcover

by Katie Garner (Editor), Nicholas Roe (Editor)

Between 22 June and 18 August 1818, John Keats and his friend and collaborator Charles Armitage Brown embarked on an epic walking tour of the English Lake District, South West Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Ayrshire Burns Country, the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles, and the Great Glen north eastwards to Inverness, Beauly, the Black Isle, and Cromarty. During the tour, Keats and Brown both wrote extensive and detailed accounts of their experiences.

The twelve new essays in this collection each explore the significance of the 1818 tour for understanding Keats's achievements, ranging across topics such as the contemporary Highland tour; Scottish literature, history, landscape and culture; Romantic responses to Robert Burns's life, works and places; and Keats's health and influence on Scottish artists.

Author Biography

Katie Garner, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of St Andrews, Nicholas Roe, Wardlaw Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews

Katie Garner completed her PhD at Cardiff University, funded by the AHRC, and is a former Government of Ireland Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Cork. She joined the University of St Andrews in 2014 and has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Centre, Texas, and the Carnegie Trust, Scotland. She is the author of Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend: The Quest for Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and general editor of the journal Forum for Modern Language Studies.

Nicholas Roe is Wardlaw Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of critically acclaimed biographies and studies including John Keats: A New Life, Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt, and John Keats and the Culture of Dissent. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Fellow of the English Association. He was a Trustee of The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association 1997-2015 and of The Wordsworth Trust 2010-2017. He is Chair of The Keats Foundation, and a trustee of The Wordsworth Conference Foundation. His most recent book is Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (OUP, 2018).