John Keats: Selected Poems

John Keats

Oct 1999 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

Keats is one of the major figures in the second generation of Romantic Poets and was considered by Tennyson to be the greatest poet of the nineteenth century. The preoccupying themes of Keats' poetry are love, art, sorrow, the natural world and thenature of the imagination. However, his poetry is often also indirectly critical of conventional political, religious, and sexual beliefs. This collection contains pieces from different periods in his short life, from his earliest verse to his later unpublished poems. It also includes his best-loved works, such as The Eve of St Agnes, Lamia, and the Odes, and extracts from Endymion.

Ratings and reviews

I read some Keats at school and loved him. Beautiful poetry that tells some great stories, in particular The Eve of St Agnes

About the author

John Keats (1795-1821) was apprenticed to a surgeon when he decided to commit himself to poetry. His genius was recognised and encouraged by his friends, but it was not until after his death that his place in English Romanticism was fully acknowledged.
John Barnard is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds and is the editor of THE COMPLETE POEMS of Keats in the Penguin English Poets series.