pstrongA detailed study of John Keats's classic volume of poetry published in 1820 considered in the light of the history of melancholystrongp ul liFirst, book-length critical study of John Keats's collection of poems, iLamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poemsi 1820li liConsiders the anthology as a poetically and thematically unified collection, instead of the more usual method of analyzing the poems in chronological order of writingli liProposes that the main theme running through the volume is melancholy, a very capacious medical category extending back to ancient Greco-Roman writers, through the Renaissance, and the subject of literary cults in the Romantic ageli liThe first detailed study of Keats's markings and annotations on his copy of Robert Burton's iThe Anatomy of Melancholy i1621 which was his favourite book during 1819 when he was writing the poemsiliuli pp pThis book examines John Keats's immensely important collection of poems, iLamia, Isabella, The Eve of St