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1	Keats and America: Attitudes and Appropriations Hall, Jessica 01 May 2016 (has links) While John Keats never traveled to America and only wrote a handful of admittedly hostile lines about it in his poetry, American writers and readers have consistently regarded Keats as one of the greatest and most influential poets of the past two centuries. His critical reputation in America has been stable since the 1840s, enduring throughout changing tastes and movements, and his biography and work have been utilized in manifold appropriations by American poets and writers. I examine Keats’s attitude toward the United States—which was in conflict with the general feeling regarding the country by his fellow Romantic poets—and briefly review the American reception of Keats’s poetry in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries before considering quintessential appropriations of Keats and the Keats biography in works by three American poets: Amy Clampitt, Stanley Plumly, and B.H. Fairchild. John Keats Transatlanticism Appropriations Stanley Plumly Amy Clampitt B.H. Fairchild American Literature Arts and Humanities Comparative Literature English Language and Literature Literature in English, British Isles Literature in English, North America