ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 addresses the question of thinking in literature – how we might think about literature, but also how thinking (and not thinking) is at work in literary texts. The chapter looks at poems by John Keats, George Herbert and others, and it argues for the importance of acknowledging the body and feeling – trepidation, excitement, desire – in thinking. The chapter also foregrounds how thinking in and about literature calls for rigour, care and critical detachment.
