Keats is one of the major figures in the second generation of Romantic Poets and was considered by Tennyson to be the greatest poet of the nineteenth century. The preoccupying themes of Keats' poetry are love, art, sorrow, the natural world and thenature of the imagination. However, his poetry is often also indirectly critical of conventional political, religious, and sexual beliefs. This collection contains pieces from different periods in his short life, from his earliest verse to his la...

John Keats (1795-1821) é um dos maiores poetas ingleses de todos os tempos. Foi decisivo para a poesia moderna e sua influência transcendeu a sua própria língua. Ligado a segunda geração de poetas românticos, geração que inclui seus contemporâneos Byron e Shelley, esta edição bilíngue traz para o leitor alguns de seus melhores e mais importantes poemas. Nascido em Londres em 31 de outubro de 1795, John Keats é sem dúvida um dos mais importantes poetas da língua inglesa. Costuma-se dizer qu...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPIONJohn Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most moving love poetry ever written.

This collection, with poems published in 1817, Endymion, and poems published in 1820, includes his best known works, such as: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to a Grecian Ur, Ode to Psyche, Lamia, Eve of St. Agnes, Ode on Melancholy, To Autumn, and Hyperion. According to Wikipedia: "John Keats (1795 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on ...

In "Ode to a Nightingale," John Keats masterfully weaves together themes of mortality, beauty, and transcendence through a rich and emotive lyrical style. The poem, structured in a series of reflective stanzas, contrasts the ephemeral nature of human existence with the seemingly eternal song of the nightingale, a symbol of nature's enduring beauty. Keats employs lush imagery and sensory detail, inviting readers into a dreamy, almost hallucinatory experience that blurs the line between real...

'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. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen greatest English writers,' and T. S. Eliot has paid tribute to the Shakespearean quality of Keats's greatness....

Composto nel 1815 e rimasto incompiuto,The Fall of Hyperion rappresenta l’estremo tentativo di Keats di fondare una moderna mitologia poetica. The Fall of Hiperion riafferma generosamente la necessità dello sguardo poetico, non più "febbre di se stesso" ma concreta vicinanza al dolore del mondo, profezia del suo destino. Perché solo la poesia raccontare può i suoi sogni, e con il puro incanto delle parole redimere può l'immaginazione da un'oscura malia, da un ottuso incantesimo.

These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Keats contains a full selection of Keats's work, including his lyric poems, narrative poems, letters, and an index of first lines.

Bastarono poche stagioni di frenesia creativa, prima della morte a venticinque anni, per fare di John Keats il poeta romantico per eccellenza: un giovane in continuo fermento e in costante trasformazione, immerso nel labirinto del proprio tirocinio poetico, con una mente assetata di grandezza e bellezza, logorata da un inafferrabile languore esistenziale e sempre pronta all’intuizione folgorante. Ma chi era il vero John Keats? Per scoprire la fisionomia che si celava dietro la maschera dei...

"This is a celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue, intensely personal and all the better for it." —Eleanor Fitzsimons, author of Wilde's WomenJohn Keats is one of Britain's best-known and most-loved poets. Despite dying in Rome in 1821, at the age of just twenty-five, his poems continue to inspire generations who reinterpret and reinvent the ways in which we consume his work.Apart from his long association with Hampstead, North London, ...

'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. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen greatest English writers,' and T. S. Eliot has paid tribute to the Shakespearean quality of Keats's greatness....

One of the most notable romantic poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats had a poetic career lasting less than a decade. And in this short time, he produced some of the greatest verses of all time. This collectable edition brings together his early poems along with his finest sonnets and remarkably flawless odes composed in the years before his death. It includes ‘Imitation of Spenser’, ‘To Lord Byron’, ‘Calidore: A Fragment’, ‘Oh! how I love, on a fair summer’s eve’, ‘I stood ti...