Looking at the Stars Forever.

A literary criticism of the poems "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion," by the Romantic poet John Keats, is presented. The article discusses themes of "looking" and "seeing" in the poems as related to the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Gilles Deleuze. Other topics include the Romantic poet George Byron, post-Napoleonic war thinking and the defeat of Waterloo in Keats's poetry, Keats's political beliefs, and image and dream in Keats's poems.