The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats
John Keats, Horace Elisha Scudder (Editor)
In the few short years of his life John Keats created lasting images of beauty. He wrote with a firm touch, with rich yet controlled imagination, with a joyous delight in nature. He possessed an instant alchemy by which he transmuted all sights and sounds into poetry. Voracious reading set him standards rather than furnished him models, and he strove to perfect his poetry through constant creative revision. He pleaded for freedom of imagination as opposed to the constraints of the school of Pope. He traveled widely in a futile search for health. Finally, in Rome, at the age of twenty-five, John Keats died of consumption. -- From publisher's description
Print Book, English, ©1899
Cambridge ed View all formats and editions
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, ©1899
letters (correspondence)
xxiv pages, 473 pages frontispiece (portrait).
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Biographical sketch
Early poems
Endymion
The poems of 1818-1819
Dramas
The eve of St. Mark
Hyperion: a fragment
To autumn
Verses to Franny Brawne
The cap and bells; or, the jealousies
The last sonnet
Supplementary verse
Letters
Biographical sketch signed: H. E. S. (i. e. Horace Elisha Scudder)
Engraved t.-p. with vignette (portrait)