The Complete Poetry of John Keats by John Keats

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The Complete Poetry of John Keats

by John Keats

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'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection "The Complete Poetry of John Keats" contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the Odes and of the uncompleted epic Hyperion, and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and comic verse. It all demonstrates the extent to which he tested his own dictum throughout his short creative life. That life spanned one of the most remarkable periods in English history in the aftermath of the French Revolution and this collection, with its detailed introductions and notes, aims to place the poems very much in their context. The collection is ample proof that Keats deservedly achieved his wish to 'be among the English Poets after my death'.
The following John Keats poetry is included in this collection:
• Ode on Indolence
• Ode to a Nightingale
• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Ode to Psyche
• Ode on Melancholy
• To Autumn
• Hyperion
• Endymion
• The Eve of St. Agnes
• Isabella
• Lamia

Classics Poetry

John Keats (1795–1821) lived fast, wrote brilliantly, and left behind some of the finest poetry in the English language. Born in London to a family of modest means, he lost his parents young and trained as a surgeon. But medicine was never his true calling—poetry was. By 1816, he abandoned scalpels for sonnets, drawn to the richness of language and the ideals of Romanticism. His early works weren't well received, but he kept writing, undeterred. In just a few years, he produced the odes that made him immortal—Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn—poems full of beauty, longing, and a quiet awareness of life's impermanence. Tuberculosis, the disease that had taken his brother, soon took hold of him too. Hoping for a warmer climate, he moved to Italy in 1820, but Rome became his final home. He died at twenty-five, convinced he'd be forgotten. Time proved him wrong. Today, Keats is celebrated as one of the greatest poets of all time, his words as alive as ever, whispering of love, beauty, and fleeting moments that make life worth living.