Part biography, part history, part literary commentary, this detailed account of the poetic development of John Keats takes the reader from the poet's early childhood to the months just before his death. The setting is late October 1820, when Keats, having sailed to Italy in the hope the warmer climate would improve his failing health, had to endure 10 days' strict quarantine in the Bay of Naples before being allowed to disembark. Those ten days provide...