The eve of st agnes

Question 1

Editiorial decisions that went against Keats will in this poem

Answer 1

-John Taylor and Richard Woodhouse were resposiblke for the editiung of the volume of poetry ion which the eve of st agnes appeared in.They rejected keats alteration of this poem as they deemed it too sexually explicit

Question 2

what were keats reasons for making the eve of st agnes more sexually explicit

Answer 2

Keats told Woodhouse that he had wanted to make the changes as ‘he does not want ladies to read his poetry: that he writes for men’