'Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine-good god how fine-It went down soft pulpy, slushy, oozy-all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large beatified Strawberry'
Heartbreaking, scathing, funny, sensual and romantic, the letters of Keats capture his development both as a poet, and as an ambitious young man. Giving a poignant picture of Keats's hopes, his life as an artist and his passionate love for Fanny Brawne, they are a major literary achievement in their own right. From warm familial correspondence and agonised love letters to vivid accounts of Regency life, speculations on the nature of imagination, early versions of poems and the final, painful letter from his sickbed in Rome, the Selected Letters covers the whole of Keats's brief, but brilliant, writing life.
Edited and introduced by John Barnard
