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Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters »
Authors: John Keats, Jane Campion
ISBN-13: 9780099529651, ISBN-10: 0099529653
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House UK
Date Published: October 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: John Keats
The archetypal Romantic writer, John Keats is one of the greatest, most influential poets of the 19th century.
Book Synopsis
“O soft embalmer of the still midnight,
Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,
Our gloom-pleas’d eyes, embower’d from the light,
Enshaded in forgetfulness divine”
John Keats, ‘Ode to Sleep’
John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats’ gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most beautiful and moving love poetry ever written.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | ix | |
| Note on the Text | xvii | |
| Chronology | xix | |
| Lines Written on 29 May The Anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II | 1 | |
| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | 1 | |
| To my Brothers | 2 | |
| Addressed to [Haydon] | 2 | |
| 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill' | 3 | |
| Sleep and Poetry | 10 | |
| Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition | 22 | |
| To Kosciusko | 22 | |
| 'After dark vapours have oppressed our plains' | 23 | |
| To Leigh Hunt, Esq. | 23 | |
| On the Sea | 24 | |
| 'The Gothic looks solemn' | 25 | |
| Endymion: A Poetic Romance | 26 | |
| Preface | 26 | |
| Book I | 27 | |
| Book II (extracts) | 55 | |
| Book III (extracts) | 67 | |
| Book IV (extracts) | 79 | |
| Nebuchadnezzar's Dream | 87 | |
| To Mrs Reynolds's Cat | 88 | |
| On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again | 88 | |
| 'When I have fears that I may cease to be' | 89 | |
| To--('Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb') | 89 | |
| 'O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind' | 90 | |
| To J. H. Reynolds, Esq. | 91 | |
| Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil | 94 | |
| On Visiting the Tomb of Burns | 111 | |
| A Song about Myself | 112 | |
| From Fragment of the 'Castle Builder' | 115 | |
| 'And what is love? It is a doll dressed up' | 116 | |
| Hyperion. A Fragment | 117 | |
| The Eve of St Agnes | 142 | |
| The Eve of St Mark | 154 | |
| 'Why did I laugh tonight? ...' | 158 | |
| Character of Charles Brown | 159 | |
| A Dream, after reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and Francesca | 160 | |
| La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad | 160 | |
| To Sleep | 162 | |
| 'If by dull rhymes our English must be chained' | 163 | |
| Ode to Psyche | 163 | |
| On Fame (I) | 165 | |
| On Fame (II) | 166 | |
| 'Two or three posies' | 166 | |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | 167 | |
| Ode to a Nightingale | 169 | |
| Ode on Melancholy | 172 | |
| Ode on Indolence | 173 | |
| Lamia | 175 | |
| Part I175 | ||
| Part II186 | ||
| 'Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art' | 195 | |
| 'Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes' | 196 | |
| To Autumn | 197 | |
| The Fall of Hyperion. A Dream | 198 | |
| Canto I198 | ||
| Canto II211 | ||
| 'What can I do to drive away' | 213 | |
| 'This living hand, now warm and capable' | 215 | |
| 'In after-time, a sage of mickle lore' | 215 | |
| Notes | 216 | |
| Index of First Lines | 232 |
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