‘I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.’ Within three years of writing these words, John Keats was dead. Consumption claimed him in 1821, at the age of just 25, but he left a body of work which would have been remarkable for a man three times his age, and which, in its staggering maturity, drew on the breadth of human emotion. Simon Brett is one of the leading wood-engravers of the past half-century. He has illustrated several Folio books, including Jane Eyre and Legends of the Grail. In this edition, which is adapted from the 2001 ‘Folio Poets’ volume, his engravings are an enchanting accompaniment to Keats’s verse.