Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, by John Keats, 1818 | The Core Curriculum
Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, by John Keats, 1818. Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's Decameron (IV.5). It tells the tale of a young woman whose family intend to marry her to "some h...