Keats, Then and Now

If you have an impression of an ethereal poet, scrub that from your consciousness.

Via Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton, circa 1822. Via Wikimedia Commons

‘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.

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