The Complete Works: Poetry, Plays, Letters and Extensive Biographies (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Romantic odes, letters, plays, and biographical portraits of 19th-century English literatureBy John Keats
Length57h 1m
About this audiobook
This comprehensive edition of John Keats's writings gathers the major poems, dramatic experiments, letters, and biographical materials that illuminate one of English Romanticism's most intense and self-conscious imaginations. From the odes and narrative romances to fragments such as Otho the Great and King Stephen, the volume reveals Keats's sensuous diction, classical allusiveness, musical phrasing, and searching meditations on beauty, mortality, art, and desire. The letters are indispensable, offering the theoretical vocabulary—most famously "negative capability"—through which his poetry is often understood. Keats (1795–1821), trained initially as an apothecary-surgeon, came to literature with an unusual intimacy with bodily suffering and transience. Orphaned young, financially insecure, and repeatedly marked by illness and bereavement, he wrote under the pressure of brevity, producing in a few years a body of work that transformed the lyric possibilities of Romantic poetry. His friendships with Leigh Hunt, Charles Brown, and other literary figures helped shape his ambitions and his reception. This volume is ideal for readers seeking not merely selected poems but the full intellectual and emotional architecture of Keats's achievement. Scholars, students, and devoted general readers will find here a richly contextualized portrait of a poet whose brief life yielded astonishing artistic permanence.
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.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length57 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6Poems:
7Ode
8Ode on a Grecian Urn
9Ode to Apollo
10Ode to Fanny
11Ode on Indolence
12Ode on Melancholy
13Ode to Psyche
14Ode to a Nightingale
15Sonnet: When I have fears that I may cease to be
16Sonnet on the Sonnet
17Sonnet to Chatterton
18Sonnet Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
19Sonnet: Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell
20Sonnet to a Cat
21Sonnet Written upon the Top of Ben Nevis
22Sonnet: This pleasant tale is like a little copse
23Sonnet - The Human Seasons
24Sonnet to Homer
25Sonnet to a Lady Seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall
26Sonnet on Visiting the Tomb of Burns
27Sonnet on Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini’
28Sonnet: A Dream, after Reading Dante’s Episode of Paulo and Francesco
29Sonnet to Sleep
30Sonnet Written in Answer to a Sonnet Ending thus:
31Sonnet: After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains
32Sonnet to John Hamilton Reynolds
33Sonnet on Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
34Sonnet: Before he went to feed with owls and bats
35Sonnet Written in the Cottage where Burns was Born
36Sonnet to the Nile
37Sonnet on Peace
38Sonnet on Hearing the Bagpipe and
39Sonnet: Oh! how I love, on a fair summer’s eve
40Sonnet to Byron
41Sonnet to Spenser
42Sonnet: As from the darkening gloom a silver dove
43Sonnet on the Sea
44Sonnet to Fanny
45Sonnet to Ailsa Rock
46Sonnet on a Picture of Leander
47Translation from a Sonnet of Ronsard
48Lamia Part I
49Lamia Part II
50Isabella
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