Keats was one of the pillars of British Romanticism, and a romantic figure in other ways as well. He was only 25 when he died, in 1821, of tuberculosis and also — according to legend — of the ...

AN ORDINARY LIFE: Poems, by B.H. Fairchild. (Norton, $26.95.) “This is the world. All there is of it,” Fairchild ends a poem evoking his father’s Kansas machine shop, a frequent touchstone ...