So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Pillowed upon my fair loves ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft swell and fall- John Keats (1795-1821) died aged just twenty-five, leaving behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and love letters ever written, inspired by his great love for his neighbour, Fanny Brawne. Although they knew each other for just a few short years and spent a great deal of that time apart - separated by Keatss worsening illness, which forced a move abroad - Keats wrote again and again about and to his love, right until his very last poem, called simply To Fanny. She in turn would wear the ring he had given her until her death. So Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion, and is a dazzling display of a talent cruelly cut short. With an introduction by Jane Campion