Reading John Keats (Hardcover)

1. Life and times; 2. Conceiving early poems, and Poems; 3. Falling in love with Endymion, A Poetic Romance. Rereading King Lear; 4. Venturing 'new Romance': Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio; 5. Falling with Hyperion; 6. Still romancing: The Eve of St Agnes: a dream-sonnet; La belle dame; 7. Reforming the sonnet and forming the Odes of 1819: Psyche, Nightingale, Grecian Urn, Melancholy, Indolence; 8. Writhing, wreathing, writing Lamia; 9. Falling in fall 1819: The Fall of Hyperion and To Autumn; 10. Last poems and lasting Keats; A few famous formulations; At a glance: Keats in context; Further reading.