Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems by John Keats

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems by John KeatsIn the summer of 1820, Keats published this collection, his third and final volume of poetry. A few months earlier, he had started coughing up blood; the following February, he would die of tuberculosis in Rome, aged just twenty five. This volume contains his greatest work, written in an astonishing burst of creative genius in 1819. It includes 'Lamia', his tale of love and betrayal in ancient Corinth; the haunting medieval romance of 'The Eve of St

In the apartment

Now aged 50

Yet with truthfulness

all explored in his inimitable prose and sardonic wit

where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school

informing our behaviour and feeding our imagination

a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man

'Keyed and pitched unlike any other significant poet at work in the language anywhere

Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish

'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked

single-volume history of this great intellectual journey since 1945

In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward