A Possible Keats

The New York Review of Books

"Fighting was to John Keats like eating or drinking," writes Fleur Jaeggy in her new book 'These Possible Lives,' on Keats, Thomas De Quincey, and Marcel Schwob. "He sought out aggressive boys, cruel boys, but their company, as he was already inclined to poetry, must have provided some comic and burlesque treats."

A Possible Keats

A year before leaving Enfield—the Georgian-style school building would later be converted into a train station and then ultimately be demolished—John Keats discovered Books. Books were the spoils left by the Incas, by Captain…

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