John Keats

Paperback edition of this landmark biography, exploding entrenched conceptions about Keats and revealing the flesh and blood poet. Roe is the first biographer to provide a full and fresh account of Keats's childhood, and how it shaped him as a poet. 'Roe's is a remarkable achievement, authoritative and imaginative to a degree that should make all future Keats biographers quail' John Carey, "Sunday Times"