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Lucasta Miller builds her biography of John Keats around nine of his most well known and loved poems. She explains what was going on in Keats' life during the time he wrote each of the poems as well taking an in-depth look at the poems themselves and discussing how they were received by his contemporaries and how they have been seen through time.

It's amazing to realize that Keats, who is considered to be among the greats of the English canon, wrote only a few short years and tragically died from tuberculosis at the age of 25. Miller's treatment strips away some of the persistent myths and brings to the fore the complexities and ambivalences that existed both in the man and in his poems. The complexity and ambiguity found in his amazing writing are still being re-interpreted and discussed some 200 years after his death.

I enjoyed this gem of a book very much and highly recommend it for anyone interested in the life and work of Keats, in the Romantic era in general, and/or in the social and cultural milieu of England's Regency period.