JOHN KEATS: BRIGHT STAR: SELECTED POEMS
Edited with an introduction by Miriam Chalk
This book gathers the most potent passages from the poetry of
John Keats (1795-1821) together, including the famous 'Odes', the
sonnets, the luxuriously sensuous 'Eve of St Agnes', the mysterious
and atmospheric 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', and extracts from
'Lamia', 'Endymion' and 'Hyperion'.
This edition has been updated with new poems and a revised
text
John Keats is one of the few British poets who is truly ecstatic
andwild. Keats is known for his ornate language, memorablephrases
('made sweet moan' in 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'), Romantic
indulgences, and a tendency to gush and exaggerate. Keats is one of
a few poets who write in English in a shamanic manner.
John Keats reaches the pinnacle of British poetry, as W. Jackson
Bate, typical among critics, says: 'the language of his greatest
poetry has always held an attraction; for there we reach, if only
for a brief while, a high plateau where in mastery of phrase he has
few equals in English poetry, and only one obvious superior.'
Like Arthur Rimbaud, and like the poet he is most compared with,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats burnt fiercely and died young. He
is a poet as martyr and hero, a Vincent van Gogh of poesie. He is
famous for his sensual odes - 'Ode to a Grecian Urn', 'Ode to
Melancholy', 'To Autumn', 'Ode to Psyche' and 'Ode to a
Nightingale' - the poems 'Lamia', 'Endymion' and 'Hyperion', the
luxuriant 'The Eve of St Agnes', a group of sonnets, and the
strange, haunting fairy tale poem 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'.
John Keats is a typical Romantic poet: he usedpagan imagery; he
employs much ancient Greek mythology; he is a shamanic poet, who
writes in feverish bouts; he is a 'poet's poet'; he wrote searing
short poems, and attempted long, epic sequences; he revered the
right authors (John Milton, William Shakespeare, the ancient
Greeks); he died young; and he travelled to Italy, the key
destination for the authentic Grand Tour experience.
British Poets Series. Illustrated. Bibliography andnotes. ISBN
9781861713353. 128 pages.
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