Abstract
ABSTRACT Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine published a famous demolition of John Keats’s poetry in August 1818. The same issue also announced its hostility to John Ferriar’s Essay towards a Theory of Apparitions (1813). Ferriar’s essay treated visionary experience as a form of hallucination, ‘a waking dream’ whose causes were not essentially different from other physical diseases. This lecture explores the intersecting trajectories of Keats and Ferriar – who died in 1815 just as the poet started his medical training at Guy’s – to suggest both responded to the emergent science of mind in the period not as a demystification but rather a re-enchantment of imaginative life.
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