Bright Star
The Complete Poems and Selected Letters
John Keats author Jane Campion editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:29th Oct '09
£9.99
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'O soft embalmer of the still midnight,/ Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,/ Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, / Enshaded in forgetfulness divine' John Keats, 'Ode to Sleep'
This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most moving love poetry ever written.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPION
John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most moving love poetry ever written.
Littered with sensuous descriptions of nature's beauty, Keats's odes also pose profound philosophical questions * Sunday Telegraph *
Sublime * Sunday Times *
In what we call natural magic, he ranks with Shakespeare...no-one else in English poetry has...his perception of loveliness * Matthew Arnold *
One of the half-dozen greatest English writers * Edmund Wilson *
His letters are certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet * T.S. Eliot *
ISBN: 9780099529651
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 32mm
Weight: 371g
544 pages