‘Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph’
By Lucasta Miller
Knopf, 370 pages

This is a biography by someone from Keats’s neighborhood. Lucasta Miller grew up in Hampstead, where Keats lived and met his beloved Fanny Brawne. Ms. Miller describes the area — what is almost the same and what has changed. The result is a bifurcation of biography branching out into what generations of biographers have made of the poet and what Ms. Miller now thinks is important.