News at Eleven: [Louise Glück] writes that Keats

"was given to describ­ing his meth­ods of com­po­si­tion in terms imply­ing a giving-in: the poet was to be pas­sive, respon­sive, avail­able to all sen­sa­tion. His desire was to reveal the soul, but soul, to Keats, had no spir­i­tual draperies. Spir­i­tu­al­ity man­i­fests the mind's intim­i­dat­ing claim to inde­pen­dent life. It was this inven­tion Keats rejected. To Keats, the soul was cor­po­real and vital and frail; it had no life out­side the body." And so with Glück:

Cross­roads

from CUNY Graduate Center Advocate: "Beyond the Intensities of the Fountain"

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