John Keats survives today as the archetypal Romantic genius who died tragically early. The rapid development of Keats's poetic skills is powerfully displayed in this selection, which includes his first major poem, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", as well as "Endymion", "The Eve of St. Agnes", "La Belle Dame sans Merci", and "The Fall of Hyperion". Throughout, Keats's preoccupying themes of love, art, sorrow, the natural world, and the nature of the imagination magnificently emerge. In his superb Introduction, John Barnard discusses the focus of the anthology, which emphasizes Keats's place as a "second-generation Romantic".
- ISBN10 0451001001
- ISBN13 9780451001009
- Publish Date November 1966
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint New American Library
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English