John Keats (Penguin Classics)

John Keats (1795-1821) is the one great English Romantic poet whose prime belief was in Art and Beauty. Yet his poetry questions the limits of the imagination, and was often critical of contemporary political, religious and sexual beliefs. Reviled by conservative Tory reviewers, the extraordinary achievement of Keats's poetry was largely unrecognized during his tragically short life. This wide-ranging selection of his poetry includes Book I and other key passages from Endymion (1818), and the major poems published in 1820: 'The Eve of St Agnes', 'Isabella', the spring Odes, the epic fragment 'Hyperion' and 'Lamia'. In addition, it contains some of his early poems like 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', together with a generous selection from the remarkably large number of poems which Keats never considered publishing — impromptu and occasional verse, variously light-hearted, playful, experimental, serious or satirical.

In his introduction, John Bernard sets Keats's work in the context of the second-generation Romantics and examines the poet's development, major concerns and preoccupations. This edition also includes a chronology, further reading and notes.

Poemas, poesias