The Poetry of John Keats

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES

This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to Keats's major poems and letters.

The book argues that Cornwall helped to structure Keats's experience as a poet but also explores the central question of how Cornwall's racy and politically subversive poetry managed to establish a broad readership where Keats's similarly indecorous publications met with review hostility and readerly indifference.