Reading John KeatsJohn Keats (1795 1821), one of the best loved poets of the Romantic period, is ever alive to words, discovering his purposes as he reads not only books but also the world around him. Leading Keats scholar Susan J. Wolfson explores the breadth of his works, including his longest ever poem Endymion; subsequent romances, Isabella (a Boccaccio tale with a proto Marxian edge admired by George Bernard Shaw), the passionate Eve of St Agnes and knotty Lamia;