Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems by John Keats #foliosociety looking backwards to his late

looking backwards to his late father and forwards to his new son

Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight

until they spot a hungry fox returning to the badger's sett

to explain the basics for both the uninitiated

and two friends

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems by John Keats #foliosociety looking backwards to his lateIn the summer of 1820, Keats published this collection, his third and final volume of poetry. A few months earlier, he had started coughing up blood; the following February, he would die of tuberculosis in Rome, aged just twenty five. This volume contains his greatest work, written in an astonishing burst of creative genius in 1819. It includes 'Lamia', his tale of love and betrayal in ancient Corinth; the haunting medieval romance of 'The Eve of St