John Keats

Keats: His Life in Manuscripts presents, in chronological order, the surviving manuscripts of his finest poems and letters, often illustrated at actual size and in their entirety, thereby providing a unique visual record of the poet’s creative processes. By looking directly at the poet’s manuscripts, we can get a vivid sense of his rich imagination and restless, impulsive thinking. The accompanying commentary by Stephen Hebron explores each manuscript in detail, carefully tracing Keats’s swift progress as a writer and thinker.