Selected Poems: Keats: Keats (Penguin Classics)
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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.
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John Keats was born in October 1795. In October 1816 he met Leigh Hunt, whose Examiner had already published Keats’s first poem. Only seven months later Poems (1817) appeared. The extraordinary speed with which Keats matured is evident from his letters. In 1818 he had worked on the powerful epic fragment Hyperion, and in 1819 he wrote ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, the major odes, Lamia, and the deeply exploratory Fall of Hyperion. Keats was already unwell when preparing the 1820 volume for the press; by the time it appeared in July he was desperately ill. He died in Rome in 1821.
Edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The poems in this book can definitely be described as romantic poetry. I bought this book for use on my English Literature A Level. Although I only needed to read three poems, I read the whole book. The imagery of the poems is very descriptive and the stories behind them are very vivid. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes romantic poetry.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever but reading these poems has been an endeavor. I know I should pay due respect to John Keats but I am a simple man in the street who admits that at school he didn't like rhyme and whose appetite for it's diminished with time. Iambic pentameter gets on my nerves - interfering with the meaning of Keats' words. His rhyming in couplets is so very twee, two As then two Bs and a good pair of Cs, but some of Keats's pairings are not very bright producing a discord and not a sound bite and often his structure left me disinclined to sort out the sense from the rhythm and rhymes and so grasping the point he was trying to make was apt to induce a filthy head-ache. And where were his phrases to make my heart soar? I couldn't find much that I truly fell for. A lot of the time he refers to old Greeks and to fathom the plotting I had to keep a book of mythology out on my desk which made reading the poems rather grotesque.
Since I don't understand the world he portrays, which is dreamy, romantic, gooey and fey, it ends up like wallpaper patterned with chintz - and that's what I think of this Classic imprint.
Since I don't understand the world he portrays, which is dreamy, romantic, gooey and fey, it ends up like wallpaper patterned with chintz - and that's what I think of this Classic imprint.
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The greatness of Keats
30 Dec 2005
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After Shakespeare there is no more musical poet in the English language than Keats. His long - reflecting lines have a depth of sensual beauty, incredible in imagery and reflection. The 'Truth is Beauty, and Beauty is Truth" conclusion of the great "Ode on a Grecian Urn" could serve as motto for his verse. In the great Odes, the Nightingale Ode, Ode to Autumn, Ode on a Grecian Urn he seems to strain poetic feeling into a new dimension of pained longing. " Perhaps the self- same song that found a path, Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn;The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the form , Of perilous seas in faery lands forlorn" can move us magically to a sense of the vision or waking dream, the music that brings us beyond ourselves and sleep into the most sublime realm of poetry.
He did die young but not before his pen had gleemed his teeming brain " in great lines living still today.
He did die young but not before his pen had gleemed his teeming brain " in great lines living still today.
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