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Poems

Hardback

Main Details

Title Poems
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Keats
SeriesEveryman's Library POCKET POETS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:396
Dimensions(mm): Height 166,Width 114
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781857150537
ClassificationsDewey:821.7
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 16 April 1992
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

John Keats began writing at the age of 18, and by the time he died, seven years later in 1821, he had produced a substantial number of poems. This collection contains his work - his narratives, sonnets of discovery and his six odes - and culminates in "To Autumn".

Author Biography

John Keats was born in London in 1795. He trained as a surgeon and apothecary but quickly abandoned this profession for poetry. His first volume of poetry was published in 1817, soon after he had begun an influential friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. His first collection and the subsequent long poem Endymion recieved mixed reviews, and sales were poor. In late 1818 he moved to Hampstead where he met and fell deeply in love with his neighbour Fanny Brawne. During the following year Keats wrote some of his most famous works, including 'The Eve of St. Agnes', 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'. He was however increasingly plagued by ill-health and financial troubles, which led him to break off his engagement to Fanny. Soon after the publication of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems in 1820, Keats left England for Italy in the hope that the climate would improve his health. But Keats was by this time suffering from advanced tuberculosis, and he died on February 23rd 1821. On his request, Keats' tombstone reads only 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'.