"A new biography of John Keats that uncovers the reality of his imagination within the context of his time"-- "The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion. When he died at the age of twenty-five, having taken a battering from the conservative press, few critics imagined he would be considered one of the great English poets two hundred years later, though...

"In this radiant dual biography, Jonathan Bate explores the fascinating parallel lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, writers who worked separately--on different continents, a century apart, in distinct genres--but whose lives uncannily echoed. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet's lines, but the two shared similar fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued...

"A renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet's extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring eighty-five verse selections with commentary. A Greeting of the Spirit greets everyone at every level of expertise who is interested in this extraordinary poetry of John Keats, interested in extraordinary imagination, interested in reading with care: adventurous undergraduates, graduate students, professional peers, and with its lucidity of style and...

"Anahid Nersessian gathers Keats's six Great Odes and comments on them in essays at once bold, speculative, and personal. There are many lovers in this "lover's discourse," but the main ones are Keats and Nersessian herself. Each ode emerges here as an expression and an inducement of love--sometimes for humanity in general, sometimes for a specific person. This is literary criticism as passion work, close reading as intimacy, with memoir occasionally...

A collection of critical essays on the poetry of John Keats, arranged in chronological order of original publication.