(3) YA Poets Byron, Keats, and Shelley (here a girl named Shelly) are re-imagined as modern teenagers in Roth's impassioned tribute to Romanticism. Shy outsider John Keats recounts events leading to Shelly's suicide, as he and handsome, self-obsessed Gordon Byron fulfill her final wishes. High school is just a backdrop to the writers' central preoccupations with sex, death, love, and escaping their tragically dysfunctional families.

Reviewer: Lauren Adams

(3) YA British Library Writers' Lives series. Keats, the Romantic poet who died at twenty-five, two years after writing "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn," among other celebrated poems, receives engaging biographical treatment. While little attention is paid to Keats's early childhood, the influences that led him away from his early training in medicine to a literary life are well documented. A chronology and facsimiles of manuscripts, letters, and paintings add further interest. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute