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Informationen zum Autor John Strachan is Reader in Romantic Literature at the University of Sunderland. He has published widely on Romantic literature, including the five-volume edition of Parodies of the Romantic Age , co-edited with Graeme Stones (1999). Klappentext This sourcebook offers the ideal introduction to the work of John Keats, a central figure in English Romanticism and one of the most popular poets in the literary canon.The sourcebook is arranged in four sections: Contexts, Interpretations, Key Poems and Further Reading. Each combines clear introductory passgaes with relevant reprinted documents. Key features include: a chronology of Keats's life and excerpts from his letters an overview of the criticism of his work, from early responses to important recent essays excerpts from a range of critical texts, with explanatory headnotes extensively annotated full texts or key passages from Keats's most widely studied poems helpful recommendations for further reading. Cross-referencing throughout the volume highlights the links between texts, contexts and reception, enabling even beginners to make original and informed readings of Keats's époque-changing work. Zusammenfassung This sourcebook offers the ideal introduction to the work of John Keats, a central figure in English Romanticism and one of the most popular poets in the literary canon. Inhaltsverzeichnis Includes annotated full texts of : On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, The Eve of St. Agnes , La Belle Dame Sans Merci , To Sleep , Ode to Psyche , Ode to a Nightingale , Ode on A Grecian Urn , Ode on Melancholy , To Autumn , as well as extracts from Endymion , Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil , Hyperion , Lamia , and The Fall of Hyperion .