Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development. According to T. S. Eliot, Keats's letters are "the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet." They represent one of the most sustained reflections on the poet's art we have from any of the major English poets. Yet quite apart from the light they throw on the poetry, they are great works of literature in their own right. Written with gusto and occasionally painful candor, they show a powerful intelligence struggling to come to terms with its own mortality. Sometimes bitterly jealous in love and socially and financially insecure, at others playful and confident of his own greatness, Keats interweaves his personal plight with the history of a Britain emerging from the long years of the Napoleonic Wars into a world of political unrest, profound social change, and commercial expansion.
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Keats's letters represent one of the most sustained reflections on the poet's art. Yet apart from this, they are great works of literature in their own right, being written with gusto and sometimes a painful candour. Keats interweaves his personal plight with the history of a Britain emerging from the long years of the Napoleonic Wars into a world of political unrest, profound social change, and commercial expansion.
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I just received this book and have browsed through Keats letters. He died at age 25 of TB. What a shame. The letters I have read so far are very touching. I bought, along with this, a book of his poems. I would recommend buying the both as I did.
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The busy time has just gone by, and I can now devote any time you may mention to the pleasure of seeing Mr Hunt-'t will be an Era in my existence-I am anxious too to see the Author of the Sonnet to the Sun,* for it is no mean gratification to become acquainted with Men who in their admiration of Poetry do not jumble together Shakespeare and Darwin*-I have coppied out a sheet or two of Verses which I composed some time ago, and find so much to blame worst in them that the best part will go into the fire-those to G. Mathew* I will suffer to meet the eye of Mr H. notwithstanding that the Muse is so frequently mentioned. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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John Keats, Lord Byron, Brother Tom, Miss Millar, Peter Bell, Miss Brawne, Miss Waldegrave, Ben Nevis, Horace Smith, Caleb Williams, King Lear, Duke of Wellington, John Hunt, Kentish Town, Simon Pure New!
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The busy time has just gone by, and I can now devote any time you may mention to the pleasure of seeing Mr Hunt-'t will be an Era in my existence-I am anxious too to see the Author of the Sonnet to the Sun,* for it is no mean gratification to become acquainted with Men who in their admiration of Poetry do not jumble together Shakespeare and Darwin*-I have coppied out a sheet or two of Verses which I composed some time ago, and find so much to blame worst in them that the best part will go into the fire-those to G. Mathew* I will suffer to meet the eye of Mr H. notwithstanding that the Muse is so frequently mentioned. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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John Keats, Lord Byron, Brother Tom, Miss Millar, Peter Bell, Miss Brawne, Miss Waldegrave, Ben Nevis, Horace Smith, Caleb Williams, King Lear, Duke of Wellington, John Hunt, Kentish Town, Simon Pure New!
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- John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Keats on 4 pages
- Peter Bell (Cornell Wordsworth) by William Wordsworth on 4 pages
- Keats: The Religious Sense by Robert M. Ryan on 4 pages
- The English Novelists by William Hazlitt on 4 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 73, page 90, and Back Matter
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- The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration by Edward Hirsch on 5 pages
- Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Melissa Kwasny on page 43, page 45, and page 47
- The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration by Edward Hirsch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Art And Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop by Jonathan Ellis on page 142, and page 143
- Religion and Faction in Hume's Moral Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought) by Jennifer A. Herdt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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