Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters

by John Keats, Jane Campion (Introduction)

Overview

John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, at the young age of 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780099529651
Publisher:	Random House UK
Publication date:	12/01/2009
Series:	Vintage Classics
Pages:	526
Sales rank:	722,383
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

The archetypal Romantic writer, John Keats is one of the greatest, most influential poets of the 19th century.

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

Editorial Reviews

"Astounding, contemporary-seeming brilliance and deep wisdom." —Andrew Motion, author, Keats: A Biography

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