Solicitor, dandy and pugilist, Barry Cornwall - pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874) - published his first poems in the Literary Gazette in late 1817. By February 1820, under the tutelage of Keats' mentor, Leigh Hunt, Cornwall had produced three volumes of verse. This book addresses the work of Cornwall since 1935.
A collection of poems that explores the 'furious stillness' of love and art. It opens apertures on twilit worlds, where the 'elastic collision of lovers' burns, ears clang to the 'torture of air', and 'winged creatures quiver on springs'.
Marggraf Turley examines how, for Keats, an insistence on 'boyishness' in the midst of apparent mature imagery is the very essence of his political contestation of the literary establishment.