John Keats Selected Poetry
John Keats Selected Poetry by John Keats, published by Oxford University Press on May 6, 1999, is a curated collection of the poet’s most significant works, encompassing both his well-known pieces and a selection of lesser-known poems. This edition spans 260 pages and is presented in English, offering readers a comprehensive view of Keats’s contributions to poetry, crafted during his brief life cut short by tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five.
In this selection, readers will encounter the essence of Keats’s poetic voice, which reflects his struggles with personal loss and societal challenges. The collection includes his celebrated odes and the unfinished work Hyperion, showcasing his remarkable maturity and depth of understanding. The themes of vitality and the concept of “vale of Soul-making” are evident throughout his writings, providing insight into his quest for meaning amid adversity. This edition is part of the Oxford World’s Classics series, known for its commitment to scholarly accuracy and valuable supplementary features.
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This is an entirely new selection of Keats’s finest poetry containing all his best known work as well as a sample of less familiar pieces. Keats published three volumes of poetry before his death at age twenty-five of tuberculosis and, while many of his contemporaries were prompt to recognize his greatness, snobbery and political hostility led the Tory press to vilify and patronize him as a “Cockney poet.” Financial anxieties and the loss of those he loved most had tried him persistently, yet he dismissed the concept of life as a vale of tears and substituted the concept of a “vale of Soul-making.” His poetry and his remarkable letters reveal a spirit of questing vitality and profound understanding and his final volume, which contains the great odes and the unfinishedHyperion, attests to an astonishing maturity of power.
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