THE SELECTED POETRY OF KEATS (Signet Classics CQ325)

Keats, John; de Man, Paul (Editor); Hollander, John (General Editor & Introduction)

ISBN 10: 0451503252 / ISBN 13: 9780451503251

Published by Signet Classics/New American Library, New York, NY, 1966

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BRAND NEW COPY. First Edition, First Printing. Anthology of major works from three published volumes of English, Romantic poet John Keats (1795 - 1821), in this world but for 25 years. Spelling has been modernized in the poems; annotations keyed to text, printed at the bottom of pages. 352 pgs. Collection in 4 parts: I, The Early Keats; II, The Middle Period; III, The Late Keats; and IV, Selected Letters. Seller Inventory # 016852

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE SELECTED POETRY OF KEATS (Signet ...

Publisher: Signet Classics/New American Library, New York, NY

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued

Edition: First Edition, First Printing

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Synopsis:

This is an entirely new selection of Keats's finest poetry containing all his best known work as well as a sample of less familiar pieces. Keats published three volumes of poetry before his death at age twenty-five of tuberculosis and, while many of his contemporaries were prompt to recognize his greatness, snobbery and political hostility led the Tory press to vilify and patronize him as a "Cockney poet." Financial anxieties and the loss of those he loved most had tried him persistently, yet he dismissed the concept of life as a vale of tears and substituted the concept of a "vale of Soul-making." His poetry and his remarkable letters reveal a spirit of questing vitality and profound understanding and his final volume, which contains the great odes and the unfinished Hyperion, attests to an astonishing maturity of power.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Cook is a freelance writer. She is the author of Seeing through Words and has recently edited Ben Johnson's The Alchemist.