Synopses & Reviews
One of the greatest English poets, John Keats (1795-1821) created an astonishing body of work before his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 26. Much of his poetry consists of deeply felt lyrical meditations on a variety of themes — love, death, the transience of joy, the impermanence of youth and beauty, the immortality of art, and other topics — expressed in verse of exquisite delicacy, originality, and sensuous richness.
This collection contains 30 of his finest poems, including such favorites as "On first looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "On seeing the Elgin Marbles," "La Belle Dame sans Merci," "Isabella; or, the pot of Basil" and the celebrated Odes: "To a Nightingale," "On a Grecian Urn," "On Melancholy," "On Indolence," "To Psyche," and "To Autumn." These and many other poems, reproduced here from a standard edition, represent a treasury of time-honored poetry that ranks among the glories of English verse.
Synopsis
Treasury of 30 favorites: "On first looking into Chapman's Homer," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn," 26 more. Reprinted from standard text. Alphabetical List of Opening Lines.
Synopsis
Treasury of 30 favorites: "On first looking into Chapman's Homer," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn," 26 more.
Table of Contents
From
Poems, 1817
'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'
Sonnet: 'To one who has been long in city pent'
Sonnet: On first looking into Chapman's Homer
Sonnet: 'Happy is England!...'
From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820
Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio
The Eve of St. Agnes
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Psyche
Fancy
Ode ('Bards of Passion and of Mirth')
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
To Autumn
Ode on Melancholy
From Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats, 1848
Hymn to Apollo ('God of the golden bow')
La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
Ode on Indolence
Sonnet: On the Sea
Sonnet: 'When I have fears...'
Sonnet: To Homer
Sonnet: To Sleep
Sonnet: 'Why did I laugh...'
Sonnet: 'Bright star, would I were...'
Sonnet: On seeing the Elgin Marbles
To J.H. Reynolds Esq.
Ode to May. Fragment
Other Posthumous and Fugitive Pieces
Sonnet: To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat
Sonnet: 'Four seasons fill...'
Stanzas ('In drear-nighted December')
A Song about Myself
Alphabetical List of Titles
Alphabetical List of First Lines