About this title: 'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic "Hyperion." Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MODERN LIB
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375756696ISBN:0375756698
Description: New. 'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic "Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 2001-02-13
ISBN-13:9780375756696ISBN:0375756698
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"Rating this feels weird-- it's Keats, his entire poetic corpus, take it or leave it. I'm happy with the book, and while I have moods when I find some of Keats' work cheesy, overall I enjoy him and see no reason to mark this collection down. Highlights for me: Ode on a Grecian Urn (a very pivotal text for ekphrasis in Western Lit), To Autumn (I'm a Fall kind of a guy), On seeing the Elgin Marbles, On first looking into Chapman's Homer (I know some of these are the "big" poems that everyone mentions, but I like them anyway), When I have fears that I may cease to be" (which is of course so poignant for us, knowing that he died so young). I prefer shorter poetry, but hope to make my way through some of the Romantic monstrosities that we find in here (tried Endymion once, but never finished it). The letters are nice too, but not nearly complete enough a collection to be satisfying."
I've been a big Shelley fan, and in a different way, Byron... but never tackled Keats before. As a non-English major, I'm having to google a lot of the references (21st Century Keats), but god is it gorgeous. Okay, I'll cop to it, I saw Bright Star yesterday--came right home and took this barely-cracked book off my shelf and stuck my nose in it for the rest of the night. My mind's jaw dropped open in admiration."
"This is my "car book", the one I keep in the car to read while waiting. I don't do this much, so it will probably stay on my reading list for quite a while. I need to throw in a dictionary for reading some of his poems."
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