What has been neglected in the long critical emphasis on Keats’ thoughts and feelings is (though it may seem odd to say so) a study of Keats as a poet. By this I mean the study of Keats as a maker of inexpressibly complex articulations of language in architectural form, works in which ‘the intention of making’ controls what is said, works ‘in which the play of figures contain[s] the reality of the subject’,” (Valery, The Art of Poetry, qtd in Vendler, 10).