Selected Poems
A selection of Keats's greatest poems

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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Selected Poems
A selection of Keats's greatest poems

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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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A selection of Keats's greatest poems

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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780140424478
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/27/2007
Series: Penguin Classics Series
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

John Keats (1795-1821) is one of the greatest English poets and a key figure in the Romantic Movement. He has become the epitome of the young, beautiful, doomed poet. He wrote, among others, 'The Eve of St Agnes', 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'To Autumn'. The group of five odes, which include 'Ode to a Nightingale', are ranked among the greatest short poems in the English language.

Table of Contents

Introductionix
Note on the Textxvii
Chronologyxix
Lines Written on 29 May The Anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II1
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer1
To my Brothers2
Addressed to [Haydon]2
'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'3
Sleep and Poetry10
Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition22
To Kosciusko22
'After dark vapours have oppressed our plains'23
To Leigh Hunt, Esq.23
On the Sea24
'The Gothic looks solemn'25
Endymion: A Poetic Romance26
Preface26
Book I27
Book II (extracts)55
Book III (extracts)67
Book IV (extracts)79
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream87
To Mrs Reynolds's Cat88
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again88
'When I have fears that I may cease to be'89
To--('Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb')89
'O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind'90
To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.91
Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil94
On Visiting the Tomb of Burns111
A Song about Myself112
From Fragment of the 'Castle Builder'115
'And what is love? It is a doll dressed up'116
Hyperion. A Fragment117
The Eve of St Agnes142
The Eve of St Mark154
'Why did I laugh tonight? ...'158
Character of Charles Brown159
A Dream, after reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and Francesca160
La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad160
To Sleep162
'If by dull rhymes our English must be chained'163
Ode to Psyche163
On Fame (I)165
On Fame (II)166
'Two or three posies'166
Ode on a Grecian Urn167
Ode to a Nightingale169
Ode on Melancholy172
Ode on Indolence173
Lamia175
Part I175
Part II186
'Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art'195
'Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes'196
To Autumn197
The Fall of Hyperion. A Dream198
Canto I198
Canto II211
'What can I do to drive away'213
'This living hand, now warm and capable'215
'In after-time, a sage of mickle lore'215
Notes216
Index of First Lines232
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