The arrangement of the poems, in eight sections, is intended to show the general development of Keats as a poet, while at the same time grouping, as far as possible, those poems that are related to one another in form or in theme. Excerpts from the letters of Keats are distributed throughout the text where they are pertinent.

The most famous of the 3 autobiographies of Frederick Douglass, the slave who became an impassioned abolitionist.