’Berg professor edits collection of Keats letters

Grant F. Scott, associate professor of English, has edited a new edition of the “Selected Letters of John Keats” (Harvard University Press, 2002). It is the first new edition of Keats’ letters in 32 years and contains four previously undiscovered letters.

Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, adding greater perspective to our knowledge of the poet’s character. It also offers a revealing look at his “posthumous existence,” the period of Keats’ illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keats’ deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Keats died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.

Scott joined the Muhlenberg faculty in 1989. He earned his B.A. from the University of California,
San Diego and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles.