The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679601082 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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His luxuriant early work was famously savaged by the critics, but he remained assured in his conviction that he would eventually "be among the English poets," and his volume of 1820 was more favorably viewed. An orphan by the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to a surgeon for a time, but gave up medicine for poetry. Keats's longed-for marriage to Fanny Brawne was prevented by the onset of the tuberculosis that killed him, at the age of twenty-six, in 1821.. John Kea
About the Author John Keats was born in 1795, the son of a livery-stable keeper. An orphan by the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to a surgeon for a time, but gave up medicine for poetry. Keats's longed-for marriage to Fanny Brawne was prevented by the onset of the tuberculosis that killed him, at the age of twenty-six, in 1821.. His luxuriant early work was famously savaged by the critics, but he remained assured in his conviction that he would eventually "be among the English poets," and his volume of 1820 was more favorably viewed
No Linked Table of Contents Michael L. Sheppard This is to warn everyone that this Kindle edition does not have a linked Table of Contents. No way to find a particular poem, etc.. John Everard said No odes, and still no table of contents. As a previous reviewer noted this edition is not the complete poems - it doesn't have the odes. And the editors have still ("No odes, and still no table of contents" according to John Everard. As a previous reviewer noted this edition is not the complete poems - it doesn't have the odes. And the editors have still (25 June 2011) not added a linked table of contents. This is really not good. The days when providers for Kindle could charge $No odes, and still no table of contents As a previous reviewer noted this edition is not the complete poems - it doesn't have the odes. And the editors have still (25 June 2011) not added a linked table of contents. This is really not good. The days when providers for Kindle could charge $3.99 for out of copyright works with such woefully adequate editing are long past.. .99 for out of copyright works with such woefully adequate editing are long past.. 5 June "No odes, and still no table of contents" according to John Everard. As a previous reviewer noted this edition is not the complete poems - it doesn't have the odes. And the editors have still (25 June 2011) not added a linked table of contents. This is really not good. The days when providers for Kindle could charge $No odes, and still no table of contents As a previous reviewer noted this edition is not the complete poems - it doesn't have the odes. And the editors have still (25 June 2011) not added a linked table of contents. This is really not good. The days when providers for Kindle could charge $3.99 for out of copyright works with such woefully adequate editing are long past.. .99 for out of copyright works with such woefully adequate editing are long past.. 011) not added a linked table of contents. This is really not good. The days when providers for Kindle could charge $No odes, and still no table of contents As a previous reviewer noted this edition is not the complete poems - it doesn't have the odes. And the editors have still (25 June 2011) not added a linked table of contents. This is really not good. The days when providers for Kindle could charge $3.99 for out of copyright works with such woefully adequate editing are long past.. .99 for out of copyright works with such woefully adequate editing are long past.. Keats lives The miniscule and sickly John Keats may not have been long for this world but he is an immortal of English language poetry. The accesibility of Keats's great poems is the reason he continues to be read while those who dismissed him in his own day have been swept into the ashcan of literary history. What's great about this complete edition is right there in the title: It's complete, allowin
'In the faculty of naturalistic interpretation, in what we call natural magic, he ranks with Shakespeare.'. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen greatest English writers,' and T. This Modern Library edition contains all of Keats's magnificent verse: 'Lamia,' 'Isabella,' and 'The Eve of St. S. 'No one else in English poetry, save Shakespeare, has in expression quite the fascinating felicity of Keats, his perception of loveliness,' said Matthew Arnold. '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. 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. Agnes'; his sonnets and odes; the allegorical romance Endymion; and the five-act poetic tragedy Otho the Great. Presented as well