Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats-Fast Shipping

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‘I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,’ John Keats soberlyprophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he enduresas the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination andcelebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. EdmundWilson counted him as ‘one of the half dozen greatest English writers,’ and T. has paid tribute to the Shakespearean quality of Keats’s greatness. Indeed,his work has survived better than that of any of his contemporaries the devaluationof Romantic poetry that began early in this century. This Modern Library editioncontains all of Keats’s magnificent verse: ‘Lamia,’ ‘Isabella,’ and ‘The Eve of ‘; his sonnets and odes; the allegorical romance Endymion; and the five-actpoetic tragedy Otho the Great. Presented as well are the famous posthumous and fugitivepoems, including the fragmentary ‘The Eve of Saint Mark’ and the great ‘La BelleDame sans Merci,’ perhaps the most distinguished literary ballad in the language.’No one else in English poetry, save Shakespeare, has in expression quite the fascinatingfelicity of Keats, his perception of loveliness,’ said Matthew Arnold. ‘In the facultyof naturalistic interpretation, in what we call natural magic, he ranks with Shakespeare.’