Retrieving and Renewing

scholarship that seeks wider appeal but is reluctant to sacrifice the microcosm of facts and context for narrative momentum and psychological depth. Because it stands in passionate opposition to William Sharp’s Life and Letters, however, which deliberately compromised material evidence for the sake of a good yarn, and because it seeks to correct oft-repeated errors in the biographical record, Gallenzi’s research is a glowing testament to ethical scholarship. The book will quickly become an essential source for those future biographers of Keats seeking to strike a balance between reliability and readability.