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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 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 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'. AUTHOR: John Keats (1795 - 1821) was only twenty-five when he died of tuberculosis in Italy. During his life he published just fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes, yet his rich, powerful, and exactly controlled poetic style ranks him as one of the greatest lyric poets in English.Product Identifiers
PublisherWordsworth Editions LTD
ISBN-139781853264047
eBay Product ID (ePID)90906537
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Complete Poems of John Keats
AuthorJohn Keats
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry
Publication Year1994
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJohn Keats
Series TitleWordsworth Poetry Library
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom