The Life and Letters of John Keats

This documentary life assembles John Keats's letters, with brief connecting narrative, from his years as a medical student and licensed dresser through the Hunt circle, the friendships with Reynolds, Brown, and Haydon, and the attachment to Fanny Brawne. The letters cover money, reviews, the Scottish walking tour, his brother's death, and the poems of 1818-1819, then the voyage to Italy and the last months in Rome. Keats's own voice carries the chronology. The book is a life told through correspondence, not a critical edition of the verse and not a novel.

Bound in quarter dark blue cloth, Cockerell marbled paper boards. Blue-grey endleaves. Cream slipcase.