Of Poets, Dreamers, and Doctors: Keats as a ‘Physician to All Men’

This essay explores some aspects of the complex relationship between prophecies, poems, and dreams in Keats’s poetry. Keats often refers to idea that poetry can alleviate harsh realities human life reconcile ourselves our situation. But poet rely on dreaming imagination achieve this effect? engages a close reading central passages from Hyperion, Odes ‘Bright Star’ which negotiates his competing notions as ‘a physician all men’ thing’.