Poems of John Keats

<p>This sourcebook offers the ideal introduction to the work of John Keats, a central figure in English Romanticism and one of the most popular poets in the literary canon.<br>The sourcebook is arranged in four sections: Contexts, Interpretations, Key Poems and Further Reading. Each combines clear introductory passgaes with relevant reprinted documents. Key features include:</p><ul> <li>a chronology of Keats's life and excerpts from his letters</li> <li>an overview of the criticism of his work, from early responses to important recent essays</li> <li>excerpts from a range of critical texts, with explanatory headnotes</li> <li>extensively annotated full texts or key passages from Keats's most widely studied poems</li> <li>helpful recommendations for further reading.</li> </ul><p>Cross-referencing throughout the volume highlights the links between texts, contexts and reception, enabling even beginners to make original and informed readings of Keats's époque-changing work.</p> <p><strong>Includes annotated full texts of</strong>:<br><br>On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, <em>The Eve of St. Agnes</em>, <em>La Belle Dame Sans Merci</em>, <em>To Sleep</em>, <em>Ode to Psyche</em>, <em>Ode to a Nightingale</em>, <em>Ode on A Grecian Urn</em>, <em>Ode on Melancholy</em>, <em>To Autumn</em>, as well as extracts from <em>Endymion</em>, <em>Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil</em>, <em>Hyperion</em>, <em>Lamia</em>, and <em>The Fall of Hyperion</em>.</p>