The Complete Works of John Keats: Poems, Plays & Personal Letters (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Hyperion, Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, Isabella…By John Keats

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The Complete Works of John Keats: Poems, Plays & Personal Letters gathers the full range of Keats's achievement: the sensuous lyrics, the great odes of 1819, narrative poems such as "Endymion" and "The Eve of St. Agnes," dramatic experiments including Otho the Great and King Stephen, and the extraordinary letters in which his poetics take form. Rich in classical allusion, tactile imagery, and meditations on beauty, mortality, desire, and imagination, the volume stands at the heart of English Romanticism. John Keats (1795–1821), trained as an apothecary-surgeon before devoting himself to poetry, wrote under intense pressure: illness, financial insecurity, hostile reviews, and the early deaths that shadowed his family. These experiences sharpened his fascination with transience and artistic permanence. His letters reveal a mind of rare critical power, formulating ideas such as "Negative Capability" and the "vale of Soul-making." This collection is essential for readers seeking not merely selected masterpieces but the development of a poetic consciousness. It rewards students, scholars, and general lovers of literature with a complete portrait of Keats's brief, luminous career. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions. - The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing. - A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation. - A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists. - A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths. - Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts. - Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.

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GenrePoetry

Length57 hrs 13 mins

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Publish dateDec 18, 2023

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1The Complete Works of John Keats: Poems, Plays & Personal Letters (Annotated)

189To John Hamilton Reynolds

2Introduction

190To John Hamilton Reynolds

3Author Biography

191To George and Thomas Keats

4Historical Context

192To John Hamilton Reynolds

5Synopsis (Selection)

193To Leigh Hunt

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6Poems:

194To Benjamin Robert Haydon

7Ode

195To Messrs. Taylor and Hessey

8Ode on a Grecian Urn

196To Messrs. Taylor and Hessey

9Ode to Apollo

197To Mariane and Jane Reynolds

10Ode to Fanny

198To Fanny Keats

11Ode on Indolence

199To Jane Reynolds

12Ode on Melancholy

200To John Hamilton Reynolds

13Ode to Psyche

201To Benjamin Robert Haydon

14Ode to a Nightingale

202To Benjamin Bailey

15Sonnet: When I have fears that I may cease to be

203To Benjamin Bailey

16Sonnet on the Sonnet

204To Benjamin Bailey

17Sonnet to Chatterton

205To Charles Wentworth Dilke

18Sonnet Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition

206To Benjamin Bailey

19Sonnet: Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell

207To John Hamilton Reynolds

20Sonnet to a Cat

208To George and Thomas Keats

21Sonnet Written upon the Top of Ben Nevis

209To George and Thomas Keats

22Sonnet: This pleasant tale is like a little copse

210To Benjamin Robert Haydon

23Sonnet - The Human Seasons

211To John Taylor

24Sonnet to Homer

212To George and Thomas Keats

25Sonnet to a Lady Seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall

213To John Taylor

26Sonnet on Visiting the Tomb of Burns

214To George and Thomas Keats

27Sonnet on Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini’

215To Benjamin Bailey

28Sonnet: A Dream, after Reading Dante’s Episode of Paulo and Francesco

216To John Taylor

29Sonnet to Sleep

217To John Hamilton Reynolds

30Sonnet Written in Answer to a Sonnet Ending thus:

218To John Hamilton Reynolds

31Sonnet: After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains

219To John Taylor

32Sonnet to John Hamilton Reynolds

220To George and Thomas Keats

33Sonnet on Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again

221To John Hamilton Reynolds

34Sonnet: Before he went to feed with owls and bats

222To George and Thomas Keats

35Sonnet Written in the Cottage where Burns was Born

223To John Taylor

36Sonnet to the Nile

224To Messrs. Taylor and Hessey

37Sonnet on Peace

225To Benjamin Bailey

38Sonnet on Hearing the Bagpipe and

226To John Hamilton Reynolds

39Sonnet: Oh! how I love, on a fair summer’s eve

227To Benjamin Robert Haydon

40Sonnet to Byron

228To Messrs. Taylor and Hessey

41Sonnet to Spenser

229To James Rice

42Sonnet: As from the darkening gloom a silver dove

230To John Hamilton Reynolds

43Sonnet on the Sea

231To Benjamin Robert Haydon

44Sonnet to Fanny

232To John Hamilton Reynolds

45Sonnet to Ailsa Rock

233To John Hamilton Reynolds

46Sonnet on a Picture of Leander

234To John Taylor

47Translation from a Sonnet of Ronsard

235To John Hamilton Reynolds

48Lamia Part I

236To John Hamilton Reynolds

49Lamia Part II

237To Benjamin Bailey

50Isabella

238To Benjamin Bailey

51Endymion Book I

239To John Taylor

52Endymion Book II

240To Thomas Keats

53Endymion Book III

241To Fanny Keats

54Endymion Book IV

242To Thomas Keats

55Hyperion Book I

243To Thomas Keats

56Hyperion Book II

244To John Hamilton Reynolds

57Hyperion Book III

245To Thomas Keats

58Stanzas

246To Benjamin Bailey

59Spenserian Stanza

247To Thomas Keats

60Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown

248To Thomas Keats

61Stanzas to Miss Wylie

249To Mrs. Wylie

62Robin Hood

250To Fanny Keats

63The Eve of St. Agnes

251To Fanny Keats

64Modern Love

252To Jane Reynolds

65On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

253To Charles Wentworth Dilke

66Imitation of Spenser

254To John Hamilton Reynolds

67The Gadfly

255To Fanny Keats

68Ben Nevis - a Dialogue

256To James Augustus Hessey

69Fill for me a brimming bowl

257To George and Georgiana Keats

70On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour

258To Fanny Keats

71To My Brothers

259To Fanny Keats

72La Belle Dame Sans Merci

260To Richard Woodhouse

73Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art

261To Fanny Keats

74Staffa

262To James Rice

75To George Felton Mathew

263To Fanny Keats

76Faery Songs

264To George and Georgiana Keats

77Acrostic

265To Richard Woodhouse

78Folly’s Song

266To Mrs. Reynolds

79The Devon Maid

267To Benjamin Robert Haydon

80Song: Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush my dear!

268To John Taylor

81Lines On Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair

269To Benjamin Robert Haydon

82Addressed to Haydon

270To Fanny Keats

83On Death

271To Benjamin Robert Haydon

84Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds

272To Benjamin Robert Haydon

85Lines

273To Benjamin Robert Haydon

86Sleep and Poetry

274To Fanny Keats

87To G. A. W.

275To Fanny Keats

88To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses

276To George and Georgiana Keats

89An Extempore

277To Fanny Keats

90To a Young Lady who Sent Me a Laurel Crown

278To Fanny Keats

91What the Thrush Said

279To Fanny Keats

92Song: The stranger lighted from his steed

280To Joseph Severn

93Song: I had a dove and the sweet dove died

281To Fanny Keats

94Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison

282To Benjamin Robert Haydon

95On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt

283To Fanny Keats

96A Song of Opposites

284To Fanny Keats

97The Castle Builder - Fragments of a Dialogue

285To Fanny Keats

98Teignmouth

286To Fanny Keats

99The Fall of Hyperion

287To James Elmes

100To Some Ladies

288To Fanny Keats

101Calidore

289To Fanny Keats

102To Kosciusko

290To Benjamin Robert Haydon

103Happy is England! I Could Be Content

291To Fanny Keats

104Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns’s Country

292To John Hamilton Reynolds

105To Charles Cowden Clarke

293To Charles Wentworth Dilke

106A Party of Lovers

294To Benjamin Bailey

107How Many Bards Gild the Lapses of Time!

295To John Taylor

108Apollo and the Graces

296To John Hamilton Reynolds

109Daisy’s Song

297To Fanny Keats

110Sharing Eve’s Apple

298To John Taylor

111Epistles

299To John Taylor

112On the Grasshopper and Cricket

300To George and Georgiana Keats

113The Poet - A Fragment

301To John Hamilton Reynolds

114Oh, I am frighten’d with most hateful thoughts!

302To Charles Wentworth Dilke

115Meg Merrilies

303To Charles Brown

116To Autumn

304To Charles Brown

117Lines to Fanny

305To Charles Wentworth Dilke

118To Haydon

306To Benjamin Robert Haydon

119Lines on the Mermaid Tavern

307To Fanny Keats

120To Hope

308To Joseph Severn

121Fame, like a wayward Giri, will still be coy

309To John Taylor

122The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!

310To Fanny Keats

123O! Were I one of the Olympian twelve

311To Joseph Severn

124Two or Three

312To James Rice

125To the Ladies who Saw Me Crown’d

313To Fanny Keats

126A Draught of Sunshine

314To Fanny Keats

127To My Brother George

315To Georgiana Keats

128To My Brother George

316To Fanny Keats

129A Prophecy: to George Keats in America

317To Fanny Keats

130On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

318To Fanny Keats

131Song: Spirit here that reignest!

319To Fanny Keats

132I Stood Tip-toe Upon a Little Hill

320To James Rice

133To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent

321To Fanny Keats

134A Song About Myself

322To John Hamilton Reynolds

135Keen, Fitful Gusts are Whisp’ring Here and There

323To Fanny Keats

136Lines Supposed to Have Been Addressed to Fanny Brawne

324To Charles Wentworth Dilke

137Specimen of an Induction to a Poem

325To Fanny Keats

138The Eve of Saint Mark

326To Fanny Keats

139Dawlish Fair

327To Fanny Keats

140O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell

328To Fanny Keats

141Song of Four Faeries - Fire, Air, Earth, and Water -

329To Fanny Keats

142Fragment of an Ode to Maia,

330To Fanny Keats

143Women, Wine, and Snuff

331To Charles Wentworth Dilke

144On Oxford A Parody

332To John Taylor

145How fever’d is the man, who cannot look

333To Charles Brown

146The Cap and Bells

334To Fanny Keats

147To —

335To Fanny Keats

148To

336To Benjamin Robert Haydon

149To

337To Fanny Keats

150You Say You Love

338To Fanny Keats

151Fancy

339To Percy Bysshe Shelley

152A Galloway Song

340To John Taylor

153Hymn to Apollo

341To Benjamin Robert Haydon

154Addressed to the Same

342To Charles Brown

155On Receiving a Curious Shell, And a Copy of Verses, From the Same Ladies

343To Fanny Keats

156Plays:

344To Charles Brown

157King Stephen

345To Charles Brown

158Scene I

346To Mrs. Brawne

159Scene II

347To Charles Brown

160Scene III

348To Charles Brown

161Scene IV

349Biographies:

162Otho the Great

350Life of John Keats by Sidney Colvin

163Dramatis Persons

351Preface

164Act I

352Chapter I

165Scene I

353Chapter II

166Scene II

354Chapter III

167Scene III

355Chapter IV

168Act II

356Chapter V

169Scene I

357Chapter VI

170Scene II

358Chapter VII

171Act III

359Chapter VIII

172Scene I

360Chapter IX

173Scene II

361Chapter X

174Act IV

362Chapter XI

175Scene I

363Chapter XII

176Scene II

364Chapter XIII

177Act V

365Chapter XIV

178Scene I

366Chapter XV

179Scene II

367Chapter XVI

180Scene III

368Chapter XVII

181Scene IV

369Appendix

182Scene V

370Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Ketas by Richard Monckton Milnes (pt. 1)

183Letters

371Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Ketas by Richard Monckton Milnes (pt. 2)

184Preface

372Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Ketas by Richard Monckton Milnes (pt. 3)

185To Charles Cowden Clarke

373Analysis

186To Benjamin Robert Haydon

374Reflection

187To Benjamin Robert Haydon

375Memorable Quotes

188To Charles Cowden Clarke

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