|
Showing 1 - 25 of
373 matches in All Departments
With an Introduction by Paul Wright. 'What the imagination seizes
as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats
(1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry:
the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on
which his reputation rests including the 'Odes' and the two
versions of the uncompleted epic 'Hyperion', and work which only
came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and
comic verse. It all demonstrates the extent to which he tested his
own dictum throughout his short creative life. That life spanned
one of the most remarkable periods in English history in the
aftermath of the French Revolution and this collection, with its
detailed introductions and notes, aims to place the poems very much
in their context. The collection is ample proof that Keats
deservedly achieved his wish to 'be among the English Poets after
my death'
|
The Trap
Catherine Ryan Howard; Read by John Keating, Alana Kerr Collins
|
R726
R602
Discovery Miles 6 020
Save R124 (17%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
For this reason, this volume presents the writings in the order of
publication rather than composition. Readers can trace the poems
through letters, reviews, and related material chronologically
interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers
extensive apparatus to help readers fully appreciate Keats's poetry
and legacy, including an introduction, headnotes, explanatory
annotations, and a wealth of contextual documents. "Criticism"
includes twelve important commentaries on Keats and his poetry, by
Paul de Man, Marjorie Levinson, Grant F. Scott, Margaret Homans,
Nicholas Roe, Stuart Sperry, Neil Fraistat, Jack Stillinger, James
Chandler, Alan Bewell, and Jeffrey N. Cox.
|
The Romantic Poets (Leather / fine binding)
John Keats, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, …
|
R360
R288
Discovery Miles 2 880
Save R72 (20%)
|
Ships in 5 - 10 working days
|
Feelings come alive through the words of the Romantic poets.
Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away
from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more
emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement's six
most famous poets-William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and William
Blake-are represented in this handsome Word Cloud Classics volume,
The Romantic Poets. One of the largest and most influential
artistic movements in history, Romanticism valued intuition and
pastoralism, and its themes are well represented in the verse of
its stars.
York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to
English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely
updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate
students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes
Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range
of critical perspectives and wider contexts.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet
of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and
critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors
offer insights into their own work as well as providing an
accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets
in our literature. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its
loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but
still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet
dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. -- Endymion
This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates the beauty and the
agony of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from
beloved writers. Because it defines human existence, love is one of
art's favorite subjects. Timeless Love: Poems, Stories, and Letters
celebrates the mysterious nature of love and passion by bringing
together classic works by beloved writers through the ages.
Including stories, poems, and letters from Shakespeare, Elizabeth
Barret Browning, John Keats, Edith Wharton, and more, this
collection explores how each love is singular-yet love itself is
universal. Hand-selected and presented in a lovely, gift-worthy
package, Timeless Love will make a romantic, thoughtful gift for
the reader in your life or the perfect addition to a collector's
shelf.
From the introduction by Philip Levine:
Walter Jackson Bate, in his biography of Keats, has writers,
critics, readers, have approached Keats during the last century, on
one quality in his writing they have been completely united.
They have all been won by an economy and power of phrase
excelled only by Shakespeare." This poet whose greatest ambition
was to he "among the English poets" is not only preeminent among
those of the past, but for well over a century he has continued to
be the yardstick by which those who have written poetry in our
language can measure their success. He remains a wellspring to
which all of us might go to refresh our belief in the value of this
art.
'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of
Keats's greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, 'The
Eve of St Agnes', and the mysterious 'Lamia' - exploring themes of
love, enchantment, myth and magic. Introducing Little Black
Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black
Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin
Classics, with books from around the world and across many
centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London
to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to
16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories
lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and
inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
John Keats (1795-1821). Keats's works available in Penguin Classics
are Selected Poems, So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems
of John Keats to Fanny Brawne, The Complete Poems and Selected
Letters.
Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a self-confessed
"rebel Angel", endures for many as a personification of the
Romantic age. While contemporary critics mocked him as a "Cockney
poet" and an uneducated lower-class "apothecary" who aspired to
poetry, subsequent generations began to see and appreciate both the
rich and impassioned sensuousness and the love of beauty and
liberty that pervade his work. From Endymion and Hyperion to `The
Eve of St Agnes', `La Belle Dame sans Merci' and the Odes, this
collection, which presents Keats's oeuvre in chronological order,
displays his rapid poetic growth, the development of his
philosophical and spiritual beliefs and the voluptuous, silken
nature of his verse."
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.
Love Letters of Great Men (Volume 2) is a collection of romantic
love poems written by leading male historical figures. *** Volume 1
plays a key role in the plot of the US movie Sex and the City. ***
This Volume 2 includes love poems written by Matthew Arnold, Alfred
Austin, Samuel Alfred Beadle, William Blake, Christopher Brennan,
Lord Byron, Robert Burns, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Henry Constable, William Cowper, Michael Drayton, George Eliot,
Thomas Ford, Stephen Foster, Robert Frost, Thomas Frost, Norman
Rowland Gale, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alfred P. Graves, Robert
Herrick, Leigh Hunt, Benjamin Jonson, John Keats, Richard Lovelace,
Pablo Neruda, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Shakespeare.
'Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to
school an Intelligence and make it a soul?' Keats's letters have
long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development
and sout-making. They represent one of the most sustained
reflections on the poet's art we have from any of the major English
poets. Yet quite apart from the light they throw on the poetry,
they are great works of literature in their own right. Written with
gusto and occasionally painful candour, they show a powerful
intelligence struggling to come to terms with its own mortality.
Sometimes bitterly jealous in love and socially and financially
insecure, at others playful and confident of his own greatness,
Keats interweaves his personal plight with the history of a Britain
emerging from the long years of the Napoleonic Wars into a world of
political unrest, profound social change, and commercial expansion.
This selection of 170 letters, written between 1816 and 1820,
includes a new introduction and notes by Jon Mee explaining both
the personal and political contexts that brought them to life.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
John Keats (1795-1821) abandoned a career in medicine to write
poetry, until his life was cut tragically short from tuberculosis
at the age of twenty-five. By that time, he had published three
volumes of verse to an unreceptive critical response. But as the
nineteenth century wore on Keats's reputation would build, and
today he is recognised as one of the greatest of the Romantic
poets.
|
Lamia (Paperback)
John Keats
|
R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
This authoritative edition was originally published in the
acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of
Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's
poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by a generous
selection of Keats's letters - to give the essence of his work and
thinking.
In his tragically short life Keats wrote an astonishing number of
superb poems; his stature as one of the foremost poets of the
Romantic movement remains unassailable. This volume contains all
the poetry published during his lifetime, including Endymion in its
entirety, the Odes, "Lamia," and both versions of "Hyperion." The
poetry is presented in chronological order, illustrating the
staggering speed with which Keats's work matured. Further insight
into his creative process is given by reproducing, in their
original form, a number of poems that were published posthumously.
Keats's letters are admired almost as much as his poetry and were
described by T. S. Eliot as "certainly the most notable and most
important ever written by any English poet." They provide the best
biographical detail available and shed invaluable light on Keats's
poems.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
|
Selected Poems (Hardcover)
John Keats; Introduction by Dr Andrew Hodgson
1
|
R336
R237
Discovery Miles 2 370
Save R99 (29%)
|
Ships in 9 - 15 working days
|
John Keats is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement. But when he died at the age of only twenty-five, his writing had been attacked by critics and his talent remained largely unrecognized.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by Dr Andrew Hodgson.
This volume, Selected Poems, reflects his extraordinary creativity and versatility, drawing on the collections published during his lifetime as well as posthumously. He wrote in many different forms – from his famous Odes to ballads such as ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, and the epic Hyperion. Together, they celebrate a poet who wrote with unsurpassed incite and emotion about art and beauty, love and loss, suffering and nature.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Midnights
Taylor Swift
CD
R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|