A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A renowned Keats
scholar illuminates the poet's extraordinary career, in a new
edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary.
John Keats's career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than
four years, cut short by his death early in 1821 at age
twenty-five. Yet in this time, he produced a remarkable-and
remarkably wide-ranging-body of work that has secured his place as
one of the most influential poets in the British literary
tradition. Celebrated Keats scholar Susan J. Wolfson presents
seventy-eight selections from his work, each accompanied by a
commentary on its form, style, meanings, and relevant contexts. In
this edition, readers will rediscover a virtuoso poet, by turns
lively, experimental, self-ironizing, outrageous, and
philosophical. Wolfson includes such well-known favorites as Ode to
a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, La Belle Dame sans
Merci, and The Eve of St. Agnes, as well as less familiar poems,
several in letters to family and friends never meant for
publication. Her selections redefine the breadth and depth of
Keats's poetic imagination, from intellectual jests and satires to
erotic bandying, passionate confessions, and reflections on
mortality. The selections, presented in their order of composition,
convey a chronicle of Keats's artistic and personal evolution.
Wolfson's revealing commentaries unfold the lively complexities of
his verbal arts and stylistic experiments, his earnest goals and
nervous apprehensions, and the pressures of politics and literary
criticism in his day. In critically attentive and conversational
prose, Wolfson encourages us to experience Keats in the way that he
himself imagined the language of poetry: as a living event, a
cooperative experience shared between author and reader.
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