This Norton Critical Edition seeks to return Keats—one of the most beloved poets of the English language—to his cultural moment by tracking his emergence as a public poet.
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 sans Merci’. While his writing is illuminated by his exaltation of the imagination and abounds with sensuous descriptions of nature’s beauty, it also explores profound philosophical questions. John Barnard’s acclaimed volume contains all the poems known to have been written by Keats, arranged by date of composition. The texts are lightly modernized and are complemented by extensive notes, a comprehensive introduction, an index of classical names, selected extracts from Keats’s letters and a number of pieces not widely available, including his annotations to Milton’s Paradise Lost.
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A comprehensive edition of one of America's greatest poets, this collection draws from her four published volumes, together with 50 uncollected works and translations of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.
Poetry and Prose: a book of fresh verses and new readings--essays and letters lately found--and passages formerly suppressed By John Keats Edited by H. Buxton Forman Contents New Readings in "Hadst thou liv'd in days of old" New Readings in the Epistle to George Keats Cancelled Passages of Lamia Rejected Stanza and Variations in Isabella Rejected Stanza and Variations in The Eve of St. Agnes Variations in the Ode to a Nightingale Variations in the Ode to Psyche Variations in Fancy Variations in Lines on the Mermaid Tavern Variations in Robin Hood Cancelled Passages of Hyperion Women, Wine and Snuff, additional "Nonsense Verses" New Readings in the Hymn to Apollo Variation in the Sonnet "After dark vapors" New Readings in "Unfelt, unheard, unseen" Variation in the Sonnet on the Sea Variations in "Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow Variation in the sonnet "When I have fears" Variations in the Sonnet to Homer Sonnet: The Human Seasons, Fresh Version New Readings in Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair Variation in the Sonnet on Sitting Down to Read King Lear once again New Readings in the Sonnet to the Nile New Readings in the Sonnet "Blue! 'Tis the life of Heaven" Variations in "I had a dove" New Readings in Lines Written in the Highlands Cancelled Passage of Staffa Variations in the Sonnet "Why did I laugh to-night?" Variation in the Sonnet on a Dream After Reading Dante's Episode of Paulo and Francesca Variations in Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown New Readings in the Song of Four Faeries An Extempore, Episode for a Comic Poem New Readings in Sonnets on Fame Variations in Sonnet to Sleep New Readings in La Belle Dame sans Merci Cancelled Passages of King Stephen Variations in "Nonsense Verses" on Oxford Variations in Sonnet to Mrs. Reynolds's Cat Sonnet to Keats on Reading his Sonnet written in Chaucer, by John Hamilton Reynolds Review of Reynolds's Peter Bell Notice of Retribution, or the Chieftain's Daughter, a Tragedy Notice of Don Giovanni, a Pantomime Fresh Letters and Additional Passages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.
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With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.