Professor Nicholas Roe on Keats in 1818

Keats’s biographer reflects upon the poet’s life in this momentous year: his stormy springtime sojourn in Teignmouth, where he composed 'Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil'; his epic summer tour of the Scottish Highlands and Islands; and his sleepless, anxious autumn nursing his brother Tom, haunted by hostile reviews as he began to compose 'Hyperion'.