Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay considers the impact of Keats’s cosmopolitanism and globally-informed reading on the 1820 Lamia volume, using Manu Samriti Chander’s idea of the “Brown Keats” as inspiration. In contrast to narratives that privilege Keats’s move towards an inward-looking poetics, this essay suggests that the reading that had the most influence on the 1820 volume might have been topical, outward-looking, and Brown. Using the Asiatic Researches as an example, the essay examines the influence of reports from British India on Keats’s poems, focusing in particular on Hyperion, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Isabella,” and the letters that surrounded those works. The essay shows the way that networks of Brown reading underpin the poems and create new pathways through the volume, as well as challenging what assumptions about Keats’s reading might limit our appreciation of his poetry in the present day.
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