Stuart A. Ende
Keats and the Sublime.
Yale University Press, 1976. First edition. 0300020104 xviii/201 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", is bound in aqua blue cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's name  in upper outside corner has been covered with small white sticker. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear and is preserved in mylar cover.
"To the lyric poet the reach for the sublime entails conflict between the wish to possess a greatness that reckons with the past and the desire to maintain an individual poetic identity. In "Keats and the Sublime," Stuart Ende's theoretical formulations center upon this conflict, defined as the relation between the subjective "I" of the poet and the otherness he evokes in his poetry.
Beginning with a discussion of Milton and eighteenth-century "sublime" poetry and concluding with a study of the continuance of Keat's mode in Yeats, Ende provides a spacious frame for his analysis of Keats. The central conflict receives both aesthetic and psychological consideration, with effective use being made of prose statements by Yeats and other poets and writings by Freud on the relation of subject to object. Keats's development is traced in full readings of the more important early poems, of "Endymion," the major odes, and the two "Hyperions."