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Biographical note: John Keats (1795-1821) was an English poet who became one of the principal figures of the Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. During his very short, tragic life, his work received constant critical attacks from periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Tennyson and the Victorians has been immense. Flamboyant vocabulary and sensual imagery characterize Keats's poetry, which includes his famous series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature to this day.
Biographical note: Chris Emery was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied painting and printmaking in Leeds. He is Publishing Director of Salt in Cambridge, England. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The Age, Jacket, Magma, Poetry London, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, PN Review and The Rialto. A first full-length collection, Dr. Mephisto (Arc Publications, 2002), his latest collection is Radio Nostalgia (Arc Publications, 2006). He is also the author or a bestselling writer's guide, 101 Ways to Make Poems Sell (Salt Publishing, 2006). He lives in Great Wilbraham with his wife, three children and various other animals.
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EAN13: 9781844715688
ISBN: 9781844715688
Author: John Keats
Title: Ode to Psyche and Other Poems
Series: Salt Pocket Classics
Product class: BB
Language: eng
Audience: General/trade
BIC subject category: CTCD1
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Pub date: 01-Apr-09
Extent: 80pp
Height: 146 mm
Width: 114 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 120 gms
Supplier: Gardners Books
Supplier: Ingram Book Group
Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability: IP
Price: GBP 9.99
Price: USD 14.95
Rights: World
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description/annotation: John Keats has come to be regarded as one of the most significant poets of the Romantic movement. His work has had a lasting impact on all those who came after him, especially the Victorians. Yet during his lifetime his work was derided and his books sold poorly. Mocked by Byron, yet supported by Shelley, his importance only became clear as the Victorians began to read him, and as they came to characterise him as a sensual, dreamy poet of the imagination, capable of vivid depictions of passionate, physical engagement with the world.
Main description: John Keats has come to be regarded as one of the most significant poets of the Romantic movement. His work has had a lasting impact on all those who came after him, especially the Victorians. Yet during his lifetime his work was derided and his books sold poorly. Mocked by Byron, yet supported by Shelley, his importance only became clear as the Victorians began to read him, and as they came to characterise him as a sensual, dreamy poet of the imagination, capable of vivid depictions of passionate, physical engagement with the world.
It took the critics ot the twentieth century to extend our understanding of Keats’s critical abilities and his complex grasp of human conflict and aesthetic issues, and to see a politically engaged and sexually charged writer.
This selection of Keats’s poetry presents all his major lyrics, espcially the great odes, along with poems selected from all parts of the writer’s brief traumatic life.
Selected by Chris Emery and published to coincide with National Poetry Month, April 2009.
Table of contents:
To Some Ladies
‘Give me women, wine and snuff’
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
‘In drear nighted December’
On Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair
‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’
Robin Hood
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
‘Four Seasons fill the measure of the year’
‘’Tis the “witching time of night”‘
‘And what is love?? It is a doll dressed up’
Fancy
Ode [‘Bards of passion and of mirth’]
The Eve of St. Agnes
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
To Sleep
‘Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy’
Ode to Psyche
‘If by dull rhymes our English must be chained’
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
‘Pensive they sit and roll their languid eyes’
To Autumn
‘The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone’
‘Bright star?! Would I were steadfast as thou art’ View excerpt as PDF:  Click here to view a sample (64 KB)
Excerpt from book:
‘Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art’
Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art —
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient sleepless eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors;
No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillowed upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever — or else swoon to death.
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