The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

John Keats

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440046972 ISBN 13 : 9781440046971

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover Keats in full: a comprehensive edition that pairs his beloved poetry with essential letters and notes. This complete collection gathers the poet’s best work alongside thoughtfully curated context, offering readers a clear view of Keats’s life, craft, and the era that shaped him.

This edition presents the poems in their historical spellings and scholarly notes, balanced with fresh, accessible introductions and annotations. It aims to place Keats’s verses in a readable frame, while preserving the vitality and beauty of his original lines.

• Full poetic oeuvre alongside letters and supplementary verse for a richer reading experience


• Prefatory notes and bibliographical details that illuminate Keats’s world


• Variants and editorial choices explained in a clear, reader-friendly way

Ideal for students, collectors, and general readers who want a thorough, thoughtfully edited Keats experience in a single enduring edition.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the preparation of these notes, as also of the Notes and Illustrations in the A ppendix, I must again acknowledge my great indebtedness to Mr. Forman. In undertaking to assemble Keats s Complete Poetical Works, 1have been aware that I was including some things which neither Keats nor any one else would call poetical. Tet besides the contribution which verse makes to beauty, there is also the light which it throws on the poetical mind and character. And since the volume of Keats sproduction is not large, and much of his posthamonspoetry is rightly classed with his own acknowledged work, it seemed best to gi Teverything, but to make the natural discrimination between the poetry in the bodjr of the volume and that which follows in the division. Supplementary Verse. Th personality of Keats is so vivid, that just as his friends in his lifetime and after his death carefully garnered every scrap which he wrote, so the friends created, by his life and his poetry may be trusted to know what his imperishable verse is and yet will handle affectionately even the toys he played with. Although I have endeavored to draw from Keats sletters such passages as throw direct light on his poetry, there yet remains an undefined scholia in the whole body of his familiar correspondence. No attentive reader of Keats sletters will fail to find in these unstudied, spontaneous expressions of the poets mind a lambent light playing all over the surface of his poetry, and therefore it is not a wide departure from the scheme of this series of poets to include, in the same volams with Keats spoems, a collection also of his letters. This collection is completei though one or two brief notes will not be found here, because already printed in the headings to poems. I have been dependent for the text mainly upon Mr. Colvin, supplemented by the minute garnering of Mr. Forman. I have to thank M
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440046972
• ISBN 13: 9781440046971
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 508
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