The Illustrated Poets
(John Keats)
John Keats? The Illustrated Poets: John Keats (edited by Nick de Somogyi)?A thing of beauty is a joy forever,? said Keats, ?and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.? Born in 1795, he studied medicine, then became a poet, publishing his first works in 1816, when he was 21. His medical training shows in his close observation of everything from autumn skies to Elgin marbles, from Chapman?s translation of Homer to a Grecian urn, from a nightingale to the symptoms of his own impending death from tuberculosis at age 26. Many of his best-known poems were published after his death. The present volume introduced to me an aspect of Keats? personality I hadn?t before known?Keats? love of friendship and his sociability. This side of Keats warms him to the reader and belies the stereotype of the Poet alone, shut off from society, in his garret. Literature texts need to more frequently include poems like ?To My Brothers,? ?To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses,? and ?On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour.?
Resumos Relacionados
- Ode To Nightingale
- Ode To Autumn
- Ode On A Grecian Urn
- Ode To Nightingale, Melancholy, Grecian Urn
- Upon Westminster Bridge
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