Essential Keats: Selected by Philip Levine

john keats

From the introduction by Philip Walter Jackson Bate, in his biography of Keats, has writers, critics, readers, have approached Keats during the last century, on one quality in his writing they have been completely united. They have all been won by an economy and power of phrase excelled only by Shakespeare." This poet whose greatest ambition was to he "among the English poets" is not only preeminent among those of the past, but for well over a century he has continued to be the yardstick by which those who have written poetry in our language can measure their success. He remains a wellspring to which all of us might go to refresh our belief in the value of this art.

Genres poetryclassics

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 21,1987

This edition

Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Published: March 14, 2006 by Ecco
ISBN: 9780060887940
ASIN: 006088794X
Language: English

About the author

john keats

Rich melodic works in classical imagery of British poet John Keats include " The Eve of Saint Agnes," " Ode on a Grecian Urn," and " To Autumn," all in 1819.

Work of the principal of the Romantic movement of England received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day during his short life. He nevertheless posthumously immensely influenced poets, such as Alfred Tennyson. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize poetry, including a series of odes, masterpieces of Keats among the most popular poems in English literature. Most celebrated letters of Keats expound on his aesthetic theory of "negative capability."

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