‘I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.’ John Keats (1795–1821) prophesied as he started writing the blank verse epic ‘Hyperion’. He began life as the son of a stable-owner, and ended it as an unmarried, poor and tuberculosis-ridden young man. Despite his first volume of poetry being published only four years before he died at the age of twenty-five, he is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement, along with Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley and William Wordsworth. The Collected Poems of John Keats celebrates Keats’s great insight into and emotion about art and beauty, love and loss, suffering and nature. This wonderful collection presents Keats’s entire oeuvre, from his famous odes to magnificent sonnets. He went on to publish several books of poetry though much of his work remained unappreciated until the last few years of his life. The collection is ample proof that John Keats deservedly achieved his wish to be among the English poets after his death.
About the Author
English Romantic poet John Keats was born on 31 October 1795 in London. The oldest of four children, he lost both his parents at a young age. Early in 1817, Keats gave up medicine for poetry. In the same year, he published his first volume, Poems by John Keats. In 1819, Keats contracted tuberculosis and by the following February he felt that death was already upon him, referring to the present as his ‘posthumous existence’. In 1820, he published his last and best volume of poetry, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. Under his doctor’s orders to seek a warm climate for the winter, Keats went to Rome with his friend. He died there on 23 February 1821 at the age of twenty-five, and was buried there. Keats had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines. Rarely has a poet so thoroughly captured life in all its natural glory, without affectation or exaggeration. And rarely, too, has a man lived such an admirable and passionate life.
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