...Richard Harter Fogle Keats the Poet . By Sperry Stewart M. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1973 . Pp. ix , 350 . $13.00 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 276 The South Atlantic Quarterly Van Winkle. In this detailed and exhaustively researched biog­...

... and distillation, empyreal, ethe­ real, sublime all have more or less exact meanings in the chem­ istry of his day (p. 37). As Sperry uses it, this approach is won­ derfully illuminating on the intensity, capable of making all dis­ agreeables evaporate, and he performs the remarkable feat of rid­ ding...

... ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN Keats the Poet. By Stewart M. Sperry. Princeton: Princeton Uni­ versity Press, 1973. Pp. ix, 350. $13.00. Mr. Sperry s title led me to hope that he was attempting the dar­ ing experiment of writing on Keats s poems without regard to Keats s letters. This turns out not to be the case...

..., and over half of the volume details his life and work in Washington while a lobbyist for Coca Cola, Shell Oil, Sperry Rand, and the rayon and cotton textile manufacturers. Much of this material will be new to most historians: Gardner s close friendship with Drew Pearson; his nuts-andbolts work on NRA codes...

... Atlantic Quarterly in the state legislature, and his term as lieutenant governor. But there is a treasure trove of material for Gardner s postgubematorial years, and over half of the volume details his life and work in Washington while a lobbyist for Coca Cola, Shell Oil, Sperry Rand, and the rayon...