Keats surpassed the best of poets in the sensual song of life, ravishing the senses with beauty of phrase and leaving us with a pleasurable and perennial memory of a truly graceful and magnificent wordsmith. Ode to a Nightingale * Ode on a Grecian Urn * To Autumn * Ode on Melancholy * Endymion, beginning, Hymn to Pan * Keen Fitful Gusts are Whispering * When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be * Lines on the Mermaid Tavern * A Song About Myself * On First Looking into Chapman's Homer * Bright Star! Would I Were as Steadfast as Thou Art * La Belle Dame Sans Merci * The Eve Of St. Agnes.
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John Keats was one of those immensely gifted nineteenth century artists whose work became widely appreciated only after his death. Despite the critics of the day and the fact that death at the tender age of twenty-six prevented him from maturing further as a poet, Keats managed to create some of the greatest lyrical poems ever written.
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Although John Keats died when he was 25, he became a hero of Romantic poetry. This collection gives a glimpse into his genius by including several of his famous odes, sonnets, as well as some longer poems like "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and an excerpt from Endymion. Sir Ralph Richardson reads with majesty and theatrical intensity, from the smoldering melancholy of "Ode to a Nightingale" to the fierce anguish of "Hymn to Pan."Although the poems are listed in sequence, no times are given, so the listener has no idea which poems are on which side. To further complicate matters, Richardson does not introduce the poems by title. P.B.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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Many recordings exist of Keats' poems; most are good but Ralph Richardson's surpasses them all. The timbre of his voice, his pauses and inflections never interfere with the intention of Keats, but clarify the poetry much as a fine pianist will give us Beethoven without gratuitously imposing idiosyncracies.
I have listened to these recordings over and over, and never tire of them.
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The selection of poems is good. It would have been nice if the reader would have identified the title of the poem he was reading. The reading was a bit over the top at times.
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Excelente edición,
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El libro enviado por Amazon de "The Illustrated Poetry of Keats" es una edición impecable, perfectamente bien impresa y encuadernada y ha llegado a la Ciudad de México en una semana, gracias.
Atentamente Mario del Valle
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