Plumly's Posthumous Keats Earns More Praise

Stanley Plumly's Posthumous Keats (Norton, 2008) has been turning up on a number of "best books of the year" lists.

On Slate.com, December 16, poetry editor Robert Pinsky picks Posthumous Keats as his favorite book of 2008, remarking that "Plumly's passionate, informed understanding of Keats enlarges into a meditation on poetry and death, on a human lifespan and posterity, on the fiery energy of art and the swinish complacency of the world, on disaster and courage. In a world of ephemeral blah-blah, the poet Plumly has written a book to last: worthy of its subject and commensurate with both words of its title."  

Novelist Joyce Carol Oates has similar things to say in compiling her best-book list for the Times Literary Supplement, November 28.  Selecting books "whose relevance to our lives will endure beyond the excitability of the moment," she leads her selections with Posthumous Keats, calling it "richly evocative" and "a tour de force of poet-sympathy across decades."

For more information about Posthumous Keats, visit the W.W. Norton website.