We tend to think of John Keats as, in Lucasta Miller’s provocative phrase, “the most romantic of the Romantic poets.” He’s the pure soul—so the legend goes—who died at only 25, penniless, passionately ...

A little over a third of the way into Paul Kerschen’s debut historical novel, “The Warm South,” a character asks poet John Keats, “But you must know Mrs. Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’?” As everyone today ...

What a pleasure these days to come across a book that unabashedly, cheerfully celebrates the lasting power of literature. Jonathan Bate takes his cue straight from one of the subjects of his dual ...

LETTERS or FANNY BRAWNE TO FANNY KEATS—Edited by Fred Edgcumbe—Oxford University Press ($3). When John Keats died of consumption in Italy (1821) at the age of 26, he left two girls behind him. Both ...

A dying John Keats wrote to his love Fanny Brawne, “If I should die I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all ...

“The Grave of Keats,” 1873 by Walter Crane. (Photo by Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Like a lot of people who get their understanding of the world from books, I fell in love twice when ...

AGAINST OBLIVION—Sheila Blrken-heod—Macmillan ($3). When the Nazis were driven from Rome three weeks ago, it is probable that few among the liberating forces realized that they had liberated, among ...

ONE would like to know whether a first reading in the letters of Keats does not generally produce something akin to a severe mental shock. It is a sensation which presently becomes agreeable, being in ...

A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions. John Keats was born in 1795. Orphaned at the age of 14, he was apprenticed by a manipulative guardian to an apothecary, a kind ...

“This idea of the free verse poem as ‘chopped’ prose,” Elisa Gabbert writes in her lead essay for the poetry issue, “comes from Ezra Pound via Marjorie Perloff, who quotes Pound in her influential ...