RaveFinancial Times (UK)\"One of the main achievements of Lucasta Miller’s enlightening guide to the poems and their creator is to banish the sentimental image to which Shelley’s \'Adonais\'—published just a few months after Keats’s death by a poet who scarcely knew him—contributed much with its self-serving lament for an ethereal spirit destroyed by a hostile press ... Miller’s approach works perfectly for a general reader like myself, using nine of Keats’s best-loved poems to guide us ... A young man in a hurry is the figure whom Miller sets convincingly before us, too hasty to care about his spelling ... It’s thrilling to follow Miller’s demonstration of how the rapidly written \'Ode to a Nightingale\' (possibly heightened by laudanum) evokes images, just as Schubert’s music uses notes, to express the indefinable. It’s startling to learn how uncertain a judge Keats was of his own work ... As a wittily perceptive introduction to (or reminder of) the poet and his work, her book is unlikely to be surpassed any time soon.
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