In this introduction to the life and works of John Keats, originally published in 1981, William Walsh presents a comprehensive but approachable study which illuminates first the poems, indirectly the man, and more obliquely the period.

Foreword 1. The Opening Sensibility 2. Poems 3. Emdymion 4. The Developing Self 5. The Education of Sensibility 6. Letters to George and Georgiana 7. Letters to Fanny Brawne 8. The Odes