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Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters
John Keats
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Description for Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters
Paperback. A collection of John Keats' poems. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 384.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPION
John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most moving love poetry ever written.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099529651
SKU
V9780099529651
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About John Keats
John Keats was born in London in 1795. He trained as a surgeon and apothecary but quickly abandoned this profession for poetry. His first volume of poetry was published in 1817, soon after he had begun an influential friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. His first collection and the subsequent long poem Endymion recieved mixed reviews, ... Read more
Reviews for Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters
Littered with sensuous descriptions of nature's beauty, Keats's odes also pose profound philosophical questions
Sunday Telegraph
Sublime
Sunday Times
In what we call natural magic, he ranks with Shakespeare...no-one else in English poetry has...his perception of loveliness
Matthew Arnold
One of the half-dozen greatest English writers
Edmund Wilson
His letters are certainly ... Read more
Sunday Telegraph
Sublime
Sunday Times
In what we call natural magic, he ranks with Shakespeare...no-one else in English poetry has...his perception of loveliness
Matthew Arnold
One of the half-dozen greatest English writers
Edmund Wilson
His letters are certainly ... Read more