Take two: John Keats, Nicholas Roe

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I bought this at Kinokuniya about eight years back and never read it, but now, in July, I tried another Keats biography and had given up. Roe’s version of history is more satisfactory. My intensive reading of the period of history the Romantics occupy happened twenty years ago after I got back from my disastrous sojourn in Japan as Jane Austen drew the sting out of signal failure. Impressed as I was by her achievement – it seemed strange that her books could be so good despite having been written two centuries back – I embarked on an intensive survey of the history and literature of the revolutionary era that Keats belongs to.