I was reading a review in The Nation of a new biography of John Keats when saw this stanza quoted from a contemporary poet:

but above you, the assistant holding you down,
trying to fix you with sad, electric eyes
is John Keats..

I was struck, because, of course, it was from that same Dean Young poem that had so struck when I recently read his 31 Poems.

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