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"The Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to
journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such
as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later
periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations
in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to
the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index
of works, authors and subjects. The whole "Critical Heritage"
series is available as a set of 67 volumes, in mini-sets selected
by period (in slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers
students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John
Keats (1795-1821). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this
authoritative edition enables students to study Keats's work
afresh, bringing his poetry and letters together in chronological
order. The backbone of this volume is provided by the poems
published in Keats's lifetime-the three volumes, Poems (1817),
Endymion (1818), and Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and
Other Poems (1820), together with the small number of poems he
published elsewhere. But a much larger body of Keats's writing was
seen only in manuscript, if at all, by Keats's friends and
family-the unpublished poems which include the dream vision, The
Fall of Hyperion, his annotations of Shakespeare and Milton, and,
above all, his extraordinary letters. These are placed at the date
on which they were written or at their probable date. This
selection of poems, prose, and letters therefore creates a double
time scheme. It places the poetry by which Keats was known to a
frequently antagonistic reading public in his lifetime within the
extensive biographical context provided by his unpublished poems
and letters. This substantial body of manuscript evidence, some of
it not discovered until the twentieth-century and none of it known
to Keats's reading public, is now part of our understanding of his
life and work, and allows us to follow his extraordinary
intellectual, emotional, and artistic self-making in the three
short years between Poems (1817) and 1820. Explanatory notes and
commentary are included to enhance the study, understanding, and
enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction
to the life of Keats, and a Chronology.
Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a
raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his
brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and
generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his
wish that he should 'be among the English poets after my death'.
This wide-ranging selection of Keats's poetry contains youthful
verse, such as his earliest known poem 'Imitation of Spenser';
poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 - including 'Lamia',
'Isabella', 'The Eve of St Agnes', 'Ode to a Nightingale' and
'Hyperion' - and later celebrated works such as 'La Belle Dame sans
Merci'. Also included are many poems considered by Keats to be
lesser work, but which illustrate his more earthy, playful side and
superb ear for everyday language.
The world's most famous hymn book has undergone a complete revision
and now offers the broadest ever range of traditional hymns and the
best from today's composers and hymn/song writers. 150 years since
its first publication and after sales of 170 million copies, this
brand new edition contains over 840 items, ranging from the Psalms
to John Bell, Bernadette Farrell and Stuart Townend. The guiding
principles behind this collection are: * congregational singability
* biblical and theological richness * musical excellence *
liturgical versatility * relevance to today's worship styles and to
today's concerns New features include added provision for all the
seasons of the Church year, new items for carol services and other
popular occasions where the repertoire is in need of refreshing,
more choices for all-age worship, fresh translations of some
ancient hymnody, beautiful new tunes, short songs and chants -
alleluias, kyries, blessings etc. and music from the world church.
A full range of indexes (including biblical and thematic) and a
helpful guide to choosing hymns for every occasion will help to
make Ancient & Modern the premier hymn collection of choice.
This is the Full Music edition.
‘I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination’ Keats’s first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immediate circle of friends and family immediately recognized his genius. In his short life he proved to be one of the greatest and most original thinkers of the second generation of Romantic poets, with such poems as ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ and ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. While his writing is illuminated by his exaltation of the imagination and abounds with sensuous descriptions of nature’s beauty, it also explores profound philosophical questions. John Barnard’s acclaimed volume contains all the poems known to have been written by Keats, arranged by date of composition. The texts are lightly modernized and are complemented by extensive notes, a comprehensive introduction, an index of classical names, selected extracts from Keats’s letters and a number of pieces not widely available, including his annotations to Milton’s Paradise Lost.
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Selected Letters (Paperback)
John Keats; Edited by John Barnard
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'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's
affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to
his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817. In a period of great
letter-writing, Keats's letters are outstanding. They begin in
summer 1816, as he approached his twenty-first birthday, and were
written over the next four years until his early death. Viewed
together, they give the fullest and most poignant record we have of
Keats's ambitions and hopes as a poet, his life as a literary man
about town, his close relationship with his brothers and young
sister, and, later, his passionate, jealous and frustrated love for
Fanny Brawne. Keats enclosed many of his poems with his letters,
and read together, they offer an incomparable insight into his
creative process and development as a poet. This major new edition
edited by Professor John Barnard includes an introduction and
notes, as well as a map of Keats's Scottish walking tour and
reproductions of his letters. John Keats was born in October 1795.
His Poems appeared in 1817, while Endymion was published in 1818,
both to mixed reviews. In 1819 he wrote The Eve of St Agnes, La
Belle Dame sans Merci, the major odes, Lamia and the Fall of
Hyperion. Keats was already unwell when preparing his 1820 volume
for the press; by the time it appeared in July he was desperately
ill. He died in Rome in 1821, in a rented apartment next to the
Spanish Steps, at the age of twenty-five. John Barnard is Emeritus
Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds and has
edited The Complete Poems of Keats for Penguin Classics.
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