John Keats

Here is the first reliable edition of John Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students. Upon its publication in 1978, Jack Stillinger's The Poems of John Keats won exceptionally high praise: "The definitive Keats," proclaimed The New Republic--"An authoritative edition embodying the readings the poet himself most probably intended, prepared by the leading scholar in Keats textual studies." Now this scholarship is at last available in a graceful, clear format designed to introduce students and general readers to the "real" Keats. In place of the textual apparatus that was essential to scholars, Stillinger here provides helpful explanatory notes. These notes give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.

I have two luxuries to brood over...your Loveliness and the hour of my death Though John Keats (1795-1821) died when he was just twenty-five years old, he left behind some of the most exquisite and moving poetry ever written. He also left an incredibly beautiful and tender collection of love letters, inspired by his great love for Fanny Brawne. Although they knew each other for just a few short years and spent a great deal of that time due to Keats' worsening illness, which forced him to live abroad, Keats wrote again and again about Fanny--his very last poem is called simply "To Fanny"--and wrote love letters to her constantly. She, in turn, would wear the ring he had given her until her death. This remarkable volume contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion, and is a dazzling display of a talent cruelly cut short.

"Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?" 'Ode to a Nightingale' is a famous love poem by John Keats, written in 1819. Keats composed the poem in one day, after watching a nightingale in his garden build a nest in a plum tree. This poem is one of several 'Great Odes of 1819', which include 'Ode on Indolence', 'Ode on Melancholy', 'Ode to a Nightingale', and 'Ode to Psyche'. Keats found earlier forms of poetry unsatisfactory for his purpose, and the collection represented a new development of the ode form. The ode is a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into the state of Negative Capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems, and explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly personal to Keats. John Keats (1795–1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats's poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature.

John Keats' letters paint a unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life. As he ponders on the nature of the writer's craft, he must first confront his brother's death from tuberculosis and then the imminent prospect of his own, tormented by the fear that he will not live to consummate his relationship with Fanny Brawne. The general selection also includes many of his finest poems, versions of which often appeared for the first time within the letters themselves. Among them are: "Ode to Melancholy", Ode of a Grecian Urn", "Old Meg", "Ode to a Nightingale", "La Belle Dame sans Merci", and "To Autumn". RUNNING TIME ➱ 2hrs. and 37mins. ©1999 NAXOS Audiobooks Ltd; (P)1999 NAXOs AudioBooks Ltd.

A Poetic Romance is a narrative poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats. The poem tells the story of Endymion, a shepherd who falls in love with the moon goddess Cynthia. Endymion's quest to find and win Cynthia's love takes him on a journey through various mythical and fantastical landscapes, encountering a cast of characters along the way. The poem is divided into four books, each exploring different aspects of Endymion's journey. Book One introduces Endymion and his love for Cynthia, while Book Two sees him embarking on a quest to find her. Book Three takes him to the underworld, where he meets the sorceress Glaucus and learns about the nature of love and beauty. Finally, Book Four sees Endymion reunited with Cynthia and ascending to the heavens to live with her A Poetic Romance is known for its lush, descriptive language and its exploration of themes such as love, beauty, and the power of imagination. While the poem was not initially well-received by critics, it has since become one of Keats's most celebrated works and is considered a cornerstone of the Romantic literary movement.A thing of beauty is a joy for Its loveliness increases; it will never....This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

This is an entirely new selection of Keats's finest poetry containing all his best known work as well as a sample of less familiar pieces. Keats published three volumes of poetry before his death at age twenty-five of tuberculosis and, while many of his contemporaries were prompt to recognize his greatness, snobbery and political hostility led the Tory press to vilify and patronize him as a "Cockney poet." Financial anxieties and the loss of those he loved most had tried him persistently, yet he dismissed the concept of life as a vale of tears and substituted the concept of a "vale of Soul-making." His poetry and his remarkable letters reveal a spirit of questing vitality and profound understanding and his final volume, which contains the great odes and the unfinished Hyperion, attests to an astonishing maturity of power.

The famous poem "When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be" by John Keats.

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. This wide-ranging selection of Keats's poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earliest known poem 'Imitation of Spenser'; poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 and later celebrated works such as 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'.

La seleccion bilingue de poemas que aqui presentamos pretende ser suficientemente representativa del conjunto de la obra poetica de Keats. Se incluyen en ella una seleccion de poemas recogidos de varias de sus obras: "Poems (1817)," "Endymion," "La vispera de Santa Ines," "Lamia," "Isabella," "Hyperion," "Poemas postumos y efimeros."

Poems by Keats selected and edited by Nicholas Roe.

This unique eBook edition of John Keats' complete poetry has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards.John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature.Table of Contents:Introduction: Life of John Keats by Sidney ColvinOde Ode on a Grecian UrnOde to ApolloOde to FannyOde on IndolenceOde on MelancholyOde to PsycheOde to a NightingaleSonnetsSonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease to BeSonnet on the SonnetSonnet to ChattertonSonnet Written in Disgust of Vulgar SuperstitionSonnet: Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will TellSonnet to a CatSonnet Written Upon the Top of Ben NevisSonnet: This Pleasant Tale is Like a Little CopseSonnet - The Human SeasonsSonnet to HomerSonnet to A Lady Seen for a Few Moments at VauxhallSonnet on Visiting the Tomb of BurnsSonnet on Leigh Hunt's Poem 'the Story of Rimini'Sonnet: A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode of Paulo and FrancescoSonnet to SleepSonnet Written in Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus:Sonnet: After Dark Vapours Have Oppress'd Our PlainsSonnet to John Hamilton ReynoldsSonnet on Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once AgainSonnet: Before He Went to Feed with Owls and BatsSonnet Written in the Cottage Where Burns Was BornSonnet to The NileSonnet on PeaceSonnet on Hearing the Bagpipe andSonnet: Oh! How I Love, on a Fair Summer's EveSonnet to ByronSonnet to SpenserSonnet: As from the Darkening Gloom A Silver DoveSonnet on the SeaSonnet to FannySonnet to Ailsa RockSonnet on a Picture of LeanderTranslation from a Sonnet of RonsardTwo Sonnets on FameLamia IsabellaEndymion Hyperion StanzasSpenserian StanzaSpenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage BrownStanzas to Miss WylieRobin HoodThe Eve of St. AgnesModern Love...

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." 'Ode on a Grecian Urn; is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819, and later published anonymously in the January 1820, Number 15 issue of the magazine Annals of the Fine Arts. This poem is one of several 'Great Odes of 1819', which include 'Ode on Indolence', 'Ode on Melancholy', 'Ode to a Nightingale', and 'Ode to Psyche'. Keats found earlier forms of poetry unsatisfactory for his purpose, and the collection represented a new development of the ode form. He was inspired to then write the poem after reading two articles by English artist and writer Benjamin Haydon. Keats was aware of other works on classical Greek art, and had first-hand exposure to the Elgin Marbles, all of which reinforced his belief that classical Greek art was idealistic and captured Greek virtues, which forms the basis of the poem. John Keats (1795–1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats's poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature.

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should ‘be among the English poets after my death’. This wide-ranging selection of Keats’s poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earliest known poem ‘Imitation of Spenser’; poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 - including ‘Lamia’, ‘Isabella’, ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Hyperion’ - and later celebrated works such as ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. Also included are many poems considered by Keats to be lesser work, but which illustrate his more earthy, playful side and superb ear for everyday language.

Feelings come alive through the words of the Romantic poets.Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement’s six most famous poets—William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and William Blake—are represented in this handsome Word Cloud Classics volume, The Romantic Poets. One of the largest and most influential artistic movements in history, Romanticism valued intuition and pastoralism, and its themes are well represented in the verse of its stars.

'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, 'The Eve of St Agnes', and the mysterious 'Lamia' - exploring themes of love, enchantment, myth and magic.

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen greatest English writers,' and T. S. Eliot has paid tribute to the Shakespearean quality of Keats's greatness. Indeed, his work has survived better than that of any of his contemporaries the devaluation of Romantic poetry that began early in this century. This Modern Library edition contains all of Keats's magnificent 'Lamia,' 'Isabella,' and 'The Eve of St. Agnes'; his sonnets and odes; the allegorical romance Endymion; and the five-act poetic tragedy Otho the Great. Presented as well are the famous posthumous and fugitive poems, including the fragmentary 'The Eve of Saint Mark' and the great 'La Belle Dame sans Merci,' perhaps the most distinguished literary ballad in the language. 'No one else in English poetry, save Shakespeare, has in expression quite the fascinating felicity of Keats, his perception of loveliness,' said Matthew Arnold. 'In the faculty of naturalistic interpretation, in what we call natural magic, he ranks with Shakespeare.'

"Ode on Melancholy" is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819, along with "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on Indolence", and "Ode to Psyche". The narrative of the poem describes the poet’s perception of melancholy through a lyric discourse between the poet and the reader, along with the introduction to Ancient Grecian characters and ideals.

This anthology presents some of the greatest poems by two of the very greatest poets in the history of English literature. The book has been published in Rome by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. All proceeds from sales go towards raising funds for the Keats-Shelley House, a living museum and unique library which receives no official funding from either British or Italian public sources.