… was always central to Keats’s life; his poetry and letters attest to a vitally social existence, and to the lasting influence of London literary coteries on his development as a poet and thinker. People > Art and Literature Keywords … to, the collective repository of ‘beauty’ and ‘truth’ available to all humankind. 5 . On the question of Hunt’s lasting influence on Keats, see Jeffrey N. Cox, Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and their Circle … was always central to Keats’s life; his poetry and letters attest to a vitally social existence, and to the lasting influence of London literary coteries on his development as a poet and thinker. … Hay, Daisy, Young Romantics: The …