Book description
Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw
talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career,
he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of
spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should
'be among the English poets after my death'. This new, wide-ranging
selection of Keats's poetry has been selected by Claire Tomalin.
John Keats (1795-1821) is one of the greatest English poets and a key
figure in the Romantic Movement. He has become the epitome of the
young, beautiful, doomed poet. He wrote, among others, 'The Eve of St
Agnes', 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'To Autumn'.
Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933. She has worked in
publishing and journalism all her life, becoming literary editor first
of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday Times, which
she left in 1986. She is the author of, among other books, the
extraordinarily successful biography of Samuel Pepys.
