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The Complete Works: Poetry, Plays, Letters and Extensive Biographies

Enriched edition. A Journey Through Nature, Love, and Beauty in Poetry and LettersBy John Keats

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John Keats's 'The Complete Works: Poetry, Plays, Letters and Extensive Biographies' offers a comprehensive examination of the poet's oeuvre, showcasing his sensational Romanticism infused with vivid imagery and profound emotional depth. This compilation not only presents his iconic poems such as 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Hyperion,' but also includes plays and personal letters that reveal the intricacies of his thoughts on beauty, mortality, and human experience. Keats employs a lyrical style that intertwines personal reflection with universal themes, placing him amidst the pillar of Romantic literature alongside contemporaries like Byron and Wordsworth. Keats, born in 1795 in London, faced a tumultuous life marked by personal loss and health struggles, experiences that deeply informed his writing. His early experiences as an apothecary and his close relationships with fellow writers led him to explore the complexities of emotion and existential contemplation in his works. The influence of Greek mythology and his keen appreciation for nature and art permeate his poetry, distinguishing him as a pivotal figure in the literary canon. For readers and admirers of poetry, 'The Complete Works' serves as an essential resource, inviting them to engage with Keats's passionate exploration of life's fleeting beauty and the creative impulse. Those seeking to understand the Romantic ethos will find in these pages not just poetry, but a lifelong conversation about art and existence. In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for 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.

Poetic Mythological World Nature & Wilderness Gods & Mortals Psychological Grief Epic Quest Supernatural Dream World Tragic Romance

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GenrePoetry

Length57 hrs 9 mins

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Publish dateJan 7, 2024

LanguageEnglish

1Introduction

95On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt

2Introduction

96A Song of Opposites

3Author Biography

97The Castle Builder - Fragments of a Dialogue

4Historical Context

98Teignmouth

5Synopsis (Selection)

99The Fall of Hyperion

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6Poems:

100To Some Ladies

7Ode

101Calidore

8Ode on a Grecian Urn

102To Kosciusko

9Ode to Apollo

103Happy is England! I Could Be Content

10Ode to Fanny

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

11Ode on Indolence

105To Charles Cowden Clarke

12Ode on Melancholy

106A Party of Lovers

13Ode to Psyche

107How Many Bards Gild the Lapses of Time!

14Ode to a Nightingale

108Apollo and the Graces

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

109Daisy’s Song

16Sonnet on the Sonnet

110Sharing Eve’s Apple

17Sonnet to Chatterton

111Epistles

18Sonnet Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition

112On the Grasshopper and Cricket

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

113The Poet - A Fragment

20Sonnet to a Cat

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

21Sonnet Written upon the Top of Ben Nevis

115Meg Merrilies

22Sonnet: This pleasant tale is like a little copse

116To Autumn

23Sonnet - The Human Seasons

117Lines to Fanny

24Sonnet to Homer

118To Haydon

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

119Lines on the Mermaid Tavern

26Sonnet on Visiting the Tomb of Burns

120To Hope

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

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

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

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

29Sonnet to Sleep

123O! Were I one of the Olympian twelve

30Sonnet Written in Answer to a Sonnet Ending thus:

124Two or Three

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

125To the Ladies who Saw Me Crown’d

32Sonnet to John Hamilton Reynolds

126A Draught of Sunshine

33Sonnet on Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again

127To My Brother George

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

128To My Brother George

35Sonnet Written in the Cottage where Burns was Born

129A Prophecy: to George Keats in America

36Sonnet to the Nile

130On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

37Sonnet on Peace

131Song: Spirit here that reignest!

38Sonnet on Hearing the Bagpipe and

132I Stood Tip-toe Upon a Little Hill

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

133To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent

40Sonnet to Byron

134A Song About Myself

41Sonnet to Spenser

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

42Sonnet: As from the darkening gloom a silver dove

136Lines Supposed to Have Been Addressed to Fanny Brawne

43Sonnet on the Sea

137Specimen of an Induction to a Poem

44Sonnet to Fanny

138The Eve of Saint Mark

45Sonnet to Ailsa Rock

139Dawlish Fair

46Sonnet on a Picture of Leander

140O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell

47Translation from a Sonnet of Ronsard

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

48Lamia Part I

142Fragment of an Ode to Maia,

49Lamia Part II

143Women, Wine, and Snuff

50Isabella

144On Oxford A Parody

51Endymion Book I

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

52Endymion Book II

146The Cap and Bells

53Endymion Book III

147To —

54Endymion Book IV

148To

55Hyperion Book I

149To

56Hyperion Book II

150You Say You Love

57Hyperion Book III

151Fancy

58Stanzas

152A Galloway Song

59Spenserian Stanza

153Hymn to Apollo

60Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown

154Addressed to the Same

61Stanzas to Miss Wylie

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

62Robin Hood

156Plays:

63The Eve of St. Agnes

157King Stephen: Scene I

64Modern Love

158Otho the Great: Dramatis Persons

65On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

159Letters

66Imitation of Spenser

160Preface

67The Gadfly

161To John Hamilton Reynolds (pt. 1)

68Ben Nevis - a Dialogue

162To John Hamilton Reynolds (pt. 2)

69Fill for me a brimming bowl

163To Fanny Keats (pt. 1)

70On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour

164To Fanny Keats (pt. 2)

71To My Brothers

165To George and Georgiana Keats

72La Belle Dame Sans Merci

166To Charles Wentworth Dilke

73Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art

167To Georgiana Keats

74Staffa

168Biographies:

75To George Felton Mathew

169Life of John Keats by Sidney Colvin

76Faery Songs

170Preface (pt. 1)

77Acrostic

171Preface (pt. 2)

78Folly’s Song

172Chapter IV (pt. 1)

79The Devon Maid

173Chapter IV (pt. 2)

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

174Chapter VII

81Lines On Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair

175Chapter VIII

82Addressed to Haydon

176Chapter IX (pt. 1)

83On Death

177Chapter IX (pt. 2)

84Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds

178Chapter XII

85Lines

179Chapter XIV (pt. 1)

86Sleep and Poetry

180Chapter XIV (pt. 2)

87To G. A. W.

181Chapter XVII

88To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses

182Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Ketas by Richard Monckton Milnes (pt. 1)

89An Extempore

183Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Ketas by Richard Monckton Milnes (pt. 2)

90To a Young Lady who Sent Me a Laurel Crown

184Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Ketas by Richard Monckton Milnes (pt. 3)

91What the Thrush Said

185Analysis

92Song: The stranger lighted from his steed

186Reflection

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

187Memorable Quotes

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

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