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The purpose of this study is to explore how Keats’s concern with the poetic career is figured in his early sonnet writing, and how he fashioned his poetic self by writing sonnets, and also how the specific use of the sonnet form allegorizes the poet’s self-consciousness about his poetic career. The thesis of this study is that Keats, an apothecary with neither born nobility, nor acquired formal classical education, used the sonnet form as a vocational enclosure in which he could make a name for himself. In this study, the beginning stage of Keats’s poetic career is examined by focussing on his early sonnets, and his interaction with the contemporary older poets, especially with Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Hunt. Influences, both conscious and unconscious, provides the early Keats models to copy, to transform, and/or to transcend. (Chonbuk National University)