One of the most beloved poets of the Romantic Age of English literature, John Keats created a body of works in his short life that is characterised by sensual imagery and unparalleled beauty. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Keats' complete works, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images r...

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...

A meticulously edited edition of John Keats’ verse collecting all of his poems sans his two long verse plays. Keats was born in London, England, on October 31, 1795. He dedicated his short life to the creation of poetry characterized by its sensuous and vivid imagery, classical themes, technical mastery and sincere and authentic emotional tenor. He died tragically young in 1821 of tuberculosis, a disease that had plagued his life since he took a walking tour of the Lake District in 1818.

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...

Lamia is one of John Keats's most intricate narrative poems, a sensuous romance in which classical myth, enchantment, philosophy, and erotic desire are brought into luminous conflict. Drawing on Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the mythic atmosphere of late Romanticism, Keats tells of the serpent-woman Lamia, her love for Lycius, and the destructive exposure wrought by cold rationalism. Its richly pictorial diction, Spenserian luxuriance, and dramatic irony place it among Keats's great 1...

Here is the first reliable edition of John Keats’s complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students.Upon its publication in 1978, Jack Stillinger’s The Poems of John Keats won exceptionally high praise: “The definitive Keats,” proclaimed The New Republic—“An authoritative edition embodying the readings the poet himself most probably intended, prepared by the leading scholar in Keats textual studies.”Now this scholarship is at last availab...

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 ...

Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a self-confessed “rebel Angel”, endures for many as a personifi cation of the Romantic age. While contemporary critics mocked him as a “Cockney poet” and an uneducated lower-class “apothecary” who aspired to poetry, subsequent generations began to see and appreciate both the rich and impassioned sensuousness and the love of beauty and liberty that pervade his work.From Endymion and Hyperion to ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ ...

In "The Complete Poetry of John Keats," the reader is invited to explore the sublime and sensuous verses of one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic era. This comprehensive compilation encompasses Keats's profound engagement with themes such as beauty, mortality, nature, and love, showcasing his unique blend of rich imagery and passionate lyricism. The collection documents Keats's aesthetic theory, heavily influenced by his admiration for art and experiences in nature, reflecting a...

In many ways the title says it all. Kissing is poetry. The kiss is perhaps the most loving and intimate moment there is. It is amongst our most soothing and treasured memories. And perhaps also our most erotic. This volume is not about the kiss of a mother to her child's scraped knee, or the father to his baby's head as he settles down to sleep. No, when the poets here talk of the kiss, they describe the longing and desire, the want and hunger to be part of something that so connects them ...

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 san...

An edition featuring the finest works of John Keats—one of the most beloved and influential voices of the Romantic era. Beautifully designed and exquisitely bound, this volume presents Keats’s timeless poetry in a format worthy of his extraordinary lyric genius.The Best of John Keats offers a definitive selection of the poet’s most cherished and enduring works, capturing the lush imagination, emotional resonance, and philosophical depth that define his writing.This collecti...