Synopsis
John Keats is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement. But when he died at the age of only twenty-five, his writing had been attacked by critics and his talent remained largely unrecognized.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful...
Details
07 February 2019
272 pages
9781509887170
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
The imaginative impact of Keats’s life – his “orphaned” childhood, his letters, his poetry, his friendships, his illness, his agonizing love affair – has continued unbroken for nearly two hundred yearsNew York Review of Books
Keats’s jazz-like improvisations, which give us, like no other writing in English, the actual rush of a man thinking, a mind hurtling forward unpredictably and sweeping us alongMorris Dickstein, New York Times
He left behind him some of Britain’s best-loved poetryAlison Flood, Guardian
A truly radical poetLesley McDowell, Independent