'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 [...]

"So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne" is a testament to the love that inspired the passion and creativity of one of the greatest English Romantic poets. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction by Jane Campion, Oscar-winning director of the fi[...]

The Methuen Shilling series present the works of the finest poets in an accessible and popular format. Based on an original series from early in the last century, the Shillings reproduce the attractive Edwardian format of those books, reflecting a prestigious publishing history and making some of t[...]

What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection 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 the two versions of the [...]

For this reason, this volume presents the writings in the order of publication rather than composition. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews, and related material chronologically interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers extensive apparatus to help readers fully appr[...]

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.[...]

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination". (Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817). In a period of great letter-writing, Keats' letters are outstanding. They begin in summer 1816, as he approached his twenty-first b[...]

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Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Complete Poems" of John Keats is edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard. Keats' first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in [...]

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should 'be among the Englis[...]

This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure of h[...]

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 thr[...]