In this innovative hybrid of biography, memoir, and criticism, Eric G. Wilson describes how John Keats gave him solace during a bout of mental illness in spring 2012. While on a tour of the principal sites in Keats's life - ranging from his London medical school to the small room in Rome where he died - Wilson discovered analogies between the poet's troubles and his own.

ERIC G. WILSON is Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University. His previous books include Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why Can't Look Away (2012), Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy (2009), a Los Angeles Times best seller, and The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace (Northwestern, 2010), among others. He and his work have been featured on NBC's Today, UNC-TV's North Carolina Bookwatch, and NPR's All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation, as well as in Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times.