Abstract
This chapter examines Bryan Cornwall's contemporary popularity through an analysis of his poetics of erotic containment. It explains that while Cornwall's erotic poetry is often deeply subversive, he was able to strategically align them to accepted models of decency compared the works of John Keats which were denounced by conservative reviewers as onanistically self-referential. This chapter also argues that it was Cornwall's erotic poetry that made Keats' love poetry appear off-puttingly jejune to contemporary readers.
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