KEATS: COMPLETE POEMS

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Keats’s first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immediate circle of friends and family immediately recognized his genius. In his short life he proved to be one of the greatest and most original thinkers of the second generation of Romantic poets, with such poems as ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ and ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. While his writing is illuminated by his exaltation of the imagination and abounds with sensuous descriptions of nature’s beauty, it also explores profound philosophical questions.
John Barnard’s acclaimed volume contains all the poems known to have been written by Keats, arranged by date of composition. The texts are lightly modernized and are complemented by extensive notes, a comprehensive introduction, an index of classical names, selected extracts from Keats’s letters and a number of pieces not widely available, including his annotations to Milton’s Paradise Lost. (From the publisher)

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Imitation of Spenser
On Peace
"Fill for me a brimming bowl"
To Lord Byron
"As from the darkening gloom a silver dove"
"Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream"
To Chatterton
Written on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison
To Hope
Ode to Apollo ("In thy western halls of gold")
Lines Written on 29 May The Anniversary of the Restoration of Charles the 2nd
To Some Ladies
On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies
To Emma
Song ("Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay")
"Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain"
"O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell"
To George Felton Mathew
To [Mary Frogley]
To -- ("Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs")
"Give me Women, Wine, and Snuff"
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem
Calidore. A Fragment
"To one who has been long in city pent"
"O! how I love, on a fair summer's eve"
To a Friend who Sent me some Roses
To my Brother George ("Many the wonders I this day have seen")
To Charles Cowden Clarke
"How many bards gild the lapses of time!"
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
To a Young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown
On Leaving some Friends at an Early Hour
"Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there"
Addressed to Haydon
To my Brothers
Addressed to [Haydon]
"I stood tip-toe upon a little hill"
Sleep and Poetry
Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
To Kosciusko
To G[eorgiana] A[ugusta] W[ylie]
"Happy is England! I could be content"
"After dark vapours have oppressed our plains"
To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's Tale of The Floure and the Leafe
On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt
To the Ladies who Saw Me Crowned
Ode to Apollo ("God of the golden bow")
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
To B. R. Haydon, with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles
On The Story of Rimini
On a Leander Gem which Miss Reynolds, my Kind Friend, Gave Me
On the Sea
Lines ("Unfelt, unheard, unseen")
Stanzas ("You say you love; but with a voice")
"Hither, hither, love -"
Lines Rhymed in a Letter Received (by J. H. Reynolds) From Oxford
"Think not of it, sweet one, so - "
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
"In drear-nighted December"
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
Apollo to the Graces
To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat
On Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair. Ode
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
"When I have fears that I may cease to be"
"O blush not so! O blush not so!"
"Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port"
"God of the meridian"
Robin Hood
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
To - ("Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb")
To the Nile
"Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine"
"Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven, the domain"
"O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind"
Sonnet to A[ubrey] G[eorge] S[pencer]
Extracts from an Opera
i. "O! were I one of the Olympian twelve"
ii. Daisy's Song
iii. Folly's Song
iv. "O, I am frightened with most hateful thoughts"
v. Song ("The stranger lighted from his steed")
vi. "Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!"
The Human Seasons
"For there's Bishop's Teign"
"Where be ye going, you Devon maid?"
"Over the hill and over the dale"
To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.
To J[ames] R[ice]
Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
To Homer
Ode to May. Fragment
Acrostic
"Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes"
On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
"Old Meg she was a gipsy"
A Song about Myself
"Ah! ken ye what I met the day"
To Ailsa Rock
"This mortal body of a thousand days"
"All gentle folks who owe a grudge"
"Of late two dainties were before me placed"
Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns's Country
On Visiting Staffa
"Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud"
"Upon my life, Sir Nevis, I am piqued"
Stanzas on some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness
Translated from Ronsard
"'Tis 'the witching time of night'"
"Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow"
Song ("Spirit that here reignest")
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