Keats, John. Selected Poetry, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
"I almost wish we were butterflies
and liv'd but three summer days
-three such days with you I could fill
with more delight than fifty
common years could ever contain."
-John Keats, Love letter to Fanny Brawne.
This edition of Keats' poems is an entirely new selection of his poems and letters in comparison to the many translations of his work published to date. Not only have the most famous of his works been included in this edition, but John Keats less well known works and surviving fragment poems have also been included, including Hyperion which was never completed due to the author's untimely death due to tuberculosis.
Students will appreciate the extensive notes contained in this edition to aid them in appreciating the contexts, language and rich imagery this profoundly inspired man mused and used to communicate to the world. A poetic Romantic, and indeed, champion of the Romantic genre, Keats died at age 25 in the year 1820 and is best remembered for his Odes, with one of the most emotive, Ode to a Nightingale being included in this Oxford World Classic. Students will find the notes include an explaination of the literary devices used by Keats and students may want to cross reference these with the earlier works of Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,and of course Shakespeare.Further Biographical reading for students:
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