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Gleaned from the riches of Keats’ letters to his friends and relatives, these previously uncollected poems reveal a lesser-known aspect of the poet’s sensibility, showing him to be a witty and occasionally irreverent young writer. A verse letter full of “shapes, and shadows and remembrances;” a sonnet on a “craggy ocean-pyramid;” a “mysterious tale” of which the poet cannot speak—Fugitive Poems offers a precious insight into what manner of man John Keats really was and how he lived out his poetic life. The archetypal Romantic writer, John Keats is one of the greatest, most influential poets of the 19th century.