Almost all of us encountered the poems of Keats in high school, and if any poetry spoke to us, it was likely to be his. However, I found myself re-reading them in middle age and finding that few of them said what I had thought they said. The texts of his poems, when augmented by pertinent extracts from his incomparable letters, reveal a darkly idiosyncratic and provocative content. I call the overall effect of them "Keats's Dharma." This course offers a feast of powerful ideas expressed in ravishing verbal music.
