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Informationen zum Autor John Keats (1795-1821) is one of the greatest of the Romantic poets. Beyond his influence on poetry and literature, his body of work continues to be immensely popular. John Barnard is an authority on the Romantic period. Klappentext The complete poems of an English master Keats's first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immediate circle of friends and family immediately recognized his genius. In his short life he proved to be one of the greatest and most original thinkers of the second generation of Romantic poets, with such poems as 'Ode to a Nightingale', 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' and 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'. While his writing is illuminated by his exaltation of the imagination and abounds with sensuous descriptions of nature's beauty, it also explores profound philosophical questions. John Barnard's acclaimed volume contains all the poems known to have been written by Keats, arranged by date of composition. The texts are lightly modernized and are complemented by extensive notes, a comprehensive introduction, an index of classical names, selected extracts from Keats's letters and a number of pieces not widely available, including his annotations to Milton's Paradise Lost . 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. Zusammenfassung John Keats lost both his parents at an early age. His decision to commit himself to poetry, rather than follow a career in medicine, was a personal challenge, unfounded in any prior success. His first volume of poetry, published in 1817, was a critical and commercial failure. This book tells his story. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Complete PoemsIntroduction Note to the Third Edition Acknowledgments Table of Dates Further Reading Imitation of Spenser On Peace "Fill for me a brimming bowl" To Lord Byron "As from the darkening gloom a silver dove" "Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream" To Chatterton Written on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison To Hope Ode to Apollo ("In thy western halls of gold") Lines Written on 29 May The Anniversary of the Restoration of Charles the 2nd To Some Ladies On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies To Emma Song ("Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay") "Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain" "O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell" To George Felton Mathew To [Mary Frogley] To -- ("Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs") "Give me Women, Wine, and Snuff" Specimen of an Induction to a Poem Calidore. A Fragment "To one who has been long in city pent" "O! how I love, on a fair summer's eve" To a Friend who Sent me some Roses To my Brother George ("Many the wonders I this day have seen") To Charles Cowden Clarke "How many bards gild the lapses of time!" On First Looking into Chapman's Homer To a Young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown On Leaving some Friends at an Early Hour "Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there" Addressed to Haydon To my Brothers Addressed to [Haydon] "I stood tip-toe upon a little hill" Sleep and Poetry Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition On the Grasshopper and Cricket To Kosciusko To G[eorgiana] A[ugusta] W[ylie] "Happy is England! I could be content" "After dark vapours h...
