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Keats and the Russian Poets. By SONIA. I. KETCHIAN. (Birmingham Slavonic-Monographs, 33) Birmingham: Birmingham University. 2001. vii+308 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7044-2293-x; ISSN 0141-3805 (pbk).
John Keats is among those major English poets who have gone relatively unappreciated in Russia. In Sonia Ketchian's view Keats has, however, been more readily assimilated directly into the writings of Russian poets than into the consciousness of the general reader. The subject is fascinating. Sadly, though, this lengthy account is often unpersuasive.
Two brief chapters on early reception and subsequent...
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