100 Selected Poems, John Keats: Collectable Hardbound edition

About the Book

One of the most notable romantic poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats had a poetic career lasting less than a decade. And in this short time, he produced some of the greatest verses of all time. This collectable edition brings together his early poems along with his finest sonnets and remarkably flawless odes composed in the years before his death. It includes ‘Imitation of Spenser’, ‘To Lord Byron’, ‘Calidore: A Fragment’, ‘Oh! how I love, on a fair summer’s eve’, ‘I stood tip-toe upon a little hill’, ‘Sleep and Poetry’, Endymion, ‘Isabella’, ‘Lamia’, his beautiful lyric odes composed in 1819, and both the versions of Hyperion. Each poem is a specimen of his vibrant imagination, sensational lyric, and thoughtful recognition and appreciation of beauty in everything.

About the Author
One of the most eminent poets of the romantic revival in the early nineteenth century, John Keats (1795-1821) was the last to be born among the Romantics and the first to die. The eldest son of Frances Jennings and Thomas Keats, a stable-keeper, he developed an inclination towards history and classics at an early age. His first poem, ‘Imitation of Spenser’ (1814), was inspired by the fairy land in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. His first collection of poems was published in 1817 and his next volume, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, came out in July 1820. From his early poems, which were considered to be written under the influence of his close friend and contemporary, to his mature and flawless poetry written in the later years, Keats came a long way in a very short time. In a lifespan lasting only two decades and a half, and a poetic career lasting only a few years, he penned down some of the most exquisite verses. His works continue to remain among the greatest and most beautiful creations in English language.