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John Keats was an idealist to whom concepts such as Truth, Beauty and Imagination were both real and important. His writings are accompanied by an awareness that his time as a writer might be short, and reveal an engaging personality, full of humour and enjoyment of life. ... Read more

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'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. Indeed, his work has survived better than that of any of his contemporaries the devaluation of Romantic poetry that began early in this century. This Modern Library edition contains all of Keats's magnificent verse: 'Lamia,' 'Isabella,' and 'The Eve of St. Agnes'; his sonnets and odes; the allegorical romance Endymion; and the five-act poetic tragedy Otho the Great. Presented as well are the famous posthumous and fugitive poems, including the fragmentary 'The Eve of Saint Mark' and the great 'La Belle Dame sans Merci,' perhaps the most distinguished literary ballad in the language. 'No one else in English poetry, save Shakespeare, has in expression quite the fascinating felicity of Keats, his perception of loveliness,' said Matthew Arnold. 'In the faculty of naturalistic interpretation, in what we call natural magic, he ranks with Shakespeare.' ... Read more

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An ideal gift
This book was given me as a gift by my daughter. At first I thought it was bringing coals to Newcastle as I have Keats poetry in a number of different editions. But the portrait of Keats , the clear presentation of the poems, the colorfulness of the illustrations, a good short introduction to Keats work and life, made this an enjoyable book for dipping into now and then, reexperiencing the special joy of Keats rich complex poetry.
It is a very goodgift.
One small caveat. I would have preferred a slightly smaller less heavier book , for more easily wandering with it on a walk.

Beautiful Blend of Art and Poetry - Ideal for Gift
There are many good collections ofthe poetry of John Keats. Why would you be interested in this particular book, titled "Keats - Truth and Imagination"?

Each poem is accompanied by a painting, often by an artist inspired by Keats' poetry. The paintings are sensual and exquisite, complementing the beauty of Keats' language. This attractive little book is printed on glossy paper. It is moderately priced and would make an excellent gift.

Amusingly, the book's printing history reads like the credits for a major Hollywood production: Created and Produced by Flame Tree Publishing, part of The Foundry Creative Media Company Limited, published (1999) by Gramercy Books, a trademark of Random House Value Publishing, and written (Introduction, Author's Note, and Chronology) and compiled by K. E. Sullivan. The ISBN is 0-517-16101-X for my 1999 edition.

Sullivan's compilation is quite good; it consists of many ofKeats' most popular work as well as some lesser known poems. My only disappointment was that Sullivan decided (or was compelled) to present only a short extract from "The Eve of St. Agnes", one of my favorites.

This collection includes several of Keats' Odes (Grecian Urn, Melancholy, Nightingale, Psyche, and To Autumn) - Fancy - Happy is England! I could be content - How many bards gild the lapses of time - Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there - La Belle Dame sans Merci - O solitude! if I must with thee dwell - Ode - On a Leander Gem which Miss Reynolds, my Kind Friend, Gave Me - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - On the Grasshopper and the Cricket - Stanzas - To Hope - To Leigh Hunt, Esq. - To one who has been long in city pent - and the longer poem Isabella, or The Pot of Basil - and extracts from The Fall of Hyperion and from The Eve of St. Agnes.

John Keats is not a difficult poet, but occasionally the reader may encounter some unfamiliar references to mythology or somewhat archaic words. However, I am quite convinced that the attractive format of this book, the beautiful art work, and the careful selection of poems makes this small book an ideal gift for readers either familiar or unfamiliar with poetry. For that matter, I suggest you consider giving this book to yourself. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: E. H. Butler in 1855 in 415 pages; Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / General; Poetry / Anthologies; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; ... Read more

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Limited Footnotes. Better Collections Now Available.
I have the 1970 paperback version of the Oxford University Press "Keats Poetical Works" edited by H. W. Garrod in 1956. As I began to read longer poems like Endymion, I found the small font size distracting. Also, Garrod's commentary and footnotes are rather limited. I rate this Oxford edition as only three stars as better editions are readily available.

You might consider Selected Poetry (Oxford Poetry Library, 1996 and 2000 editions) that is edited by Elizabeth Cook. To confuse matters a bit, there is now a 2001 version, also edited by Elizabeth Cook, with a different title: John Keats: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics). These newer versions may contain more extensive commentary and footnotes than the earlier Garrod edition.

I do have recommendations for two books with which I am quite familiar.

The first is Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats, published by Modern Library Paperback Classics in 2001. It contains an excellent introduction by Edward Hirsh and good footnotes by John Pollock. Five stars.

My other recommendation is The Complete Poems, Penguin Classics, edited by John Bernard. This Penguin Classics edition has been a standard Keats text for several years. Five stars. ... Read more

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This book offers a revaluation of Keats' major poetry. It reveals how Keats' work is both an oblique criticism of the dominant attitudes to literature, sexuality, religion and politics in his period, and a powerful critique of the claims of the imagination. For all that he shares the optimistic humanism of progressives like Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, and Shelley, Keats nevertheless questions the sufficiency of either Art or Beauty. Professor Barnard shows how the notorious attack on Keats as a Cockney poet was motivated by class and political bias. He analyses the problems facing Keats as a second-generation Romantic, his continuing difficulty in finding an appropriate style for 'Poesy', and his uncertain judgement of his own work. The ambiguities and stresses evident in the poetry's treatment of women and sexual love are seen to reflect divisions in Keats and his society. The maturing use of myth from Poems (1817) to The Fall of Hyperion, and the achievement of the major odes are set in relation to Keats' whole career. ... Read more

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With The Explanatory Notes Of Shelley's Poems By Mrs. Shelley. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: W. Scott in 1887 in 254 pages; Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; ... Read more

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John Keats is one of the best-loved, admired, and most frequently studied Romantic poets, though he wrote only three volumes of poetry in his short life. This extraordinary biography looks at how Keats developed as a poet against the backdrop of the major events of his life. John Keats follows the poet through intense family ties and friendships, a medical apprenticeship and subsequent decision to pursue poetry, participation in the literary circles of London, travels within Britain, illness, and finally, death from tuberculosis at age 25. A vivid and authoritative introduction to Keats's remarkable life, John Keats is filled with photographs of landscapes and cityscapes from his life, portraits of the poet and his family, evocative paintings, and manuscripts of his works and letters. ... Read more

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Excellent Summary
As I said of the Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron volumes, this entire series, sadly not fully available, is an excellent introduction or, as in my case, re-introduction to the background and development of Keats. I particularly enjoyed the visuals as adding to the sense of time and place. Also, the description of Keats' relationship to other artists of the period (and historical events) added further depth to what might be called informative light reading. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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How can we know the great Goddess again? How worthy are we of that mythical experience? How are we related to that experience in our deepest depravity? And why has the mythical experience grown so opaque to us in our post-Romantic, modern world.

These are the main issues arising out of Western literary tradition that John O’Meara explores in this book.

In the work of Robert Graves, Shakespeare, and Keats, O’Meara sees the deepest expression at once of our most far-reaching hopes and our sadly alienated case in respect of any mythical experience we may conceive of having in the immediate future.

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Using original research in scientific treatises, philosophical manuscripts, and political documents, this pioneering study describes the neglected era of revolutionary medicine in Europe through the writings of the English poet and physician, John Keats. De Almeida explores the four primary concerns of Romantic medicine--the physician's task, the meaning of life, the prescription of disease and health, and the evolution of matter and mind--and reveals their expression in Keats's poetry and thought. By delineating a distinct but unknown era in the history of medicine, charting the poet's milieu within this age, and providing close reading of his poems in these contexts, Romantic Medicine and John Keats illustrates the interdisciplinary bonds between the two healing arts of the Romantic period: medicine and poetry. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:EARLY SONNETS.OCHATTERTON I how very sad thy fate ! Dear child of sorrow—son of misery ! How soon the film of death obscured that eye, Whence Genius mildly flash'd, and high debate. How soon that voice, majestic and elate,Melted in dying numbers ! Oh ! how nighWas night to thy fair morning. Thou didst die A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate. But this is past: thou art among the starsOf highest heaven: to thy rolling spheres Thou sweetest singest: nought thy hymning mars,Above the ingrate world and human fears. On earth the good man base detraction barsFrom thy fair name, and waters it with tears.how sweetly sad thy melody! Attuning still the soul to tenderness, As if soft Pity, with unusual stress, Had touch'd her plaintive lute, and thou being by, Hadst caught the tones, nor suffer'd them to die.O'ershadowing sorrow doth not make thee lessDelightful: thou thy griefs dost dress With a bright halo, shining beamily, As when a cloud the golden moon doth veil, Its sides are tinged with a resplendent glow, Through the dark robe oft amber rays prevail,And like fair veins in sable marble flow. Still warble, dying swan! still tell the tale,The enchanting tale, the tale of pleasing woe.BPENSER! a jealous honourer of thine,1 A forester deep in thy midmost trees, Did, last eve, ask my promise to refine Some English, that might strive thine ear to please. 1 I am enabled by the kind- in Little Britain. The poemness of Mr. W. A. Longmore, is dated, in Mrs. Longmore'snephew of Mr. J. W. Rey- hand, Feb. 5th, 1818, but itnolds, to give an exact tran- seems to me impossible that itscript of this sonnetas written can have been other than anand given to his mother, by early production and of thethe poet, at his fath... ... Read more

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Keats is one of the principal figures in the Romantic movement, his verse violettenderly fanciful and intensely musical. His stature as a poet has grown steadily despite changing fashions. ... Read more

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John Keats
Doing a review of someone like Frost, Keats, Rilke, or Shakespeare is like reviewing the Bible, it is impossible.It has already been established that this man's poetry is mastery.Now the question is thus, what book should you purchase?If you want a small taste of his work at a good price, this is it.With this small, under $... edition, you can decide if you want to purchase anymore of his books.I say it is a great book for a poetry shelf in anyone's library.

The brillance of Keat's poetry
What a wonderful anthology of John Keats' poetry. The selections in this book range from his well known and loved pieces like "Lamia" and " To Autumn" to less familliar but still gracefully written"On the Sea" and "To Leigh Hunt, Esq."The timeline inthe front of the book is helpful, giving an overview of what the world waslike in Keats' short lifespan. Many critics wonder what he would'veaccomplished had he lived longer, and by reading this collection of hispoems, one can only image the brilliant works he might have given us tofurther his powerful legacy. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1907. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This comprehensive guide to the poetry and letters of John Keats offers a highly readable and detailed textual analysis of the themes and techniques of his work. Blades assesses all the major writing - including the narratives and the great odes - and goes on to examine the context of the verse through a survey of the poet's letters and an examination of the key features of nineteenth century Romanticism. This lively and imaginative study concludes with a discussion of some of the most influential critical responses to Keats's work.
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