Book Two - John Keats, Everyman Poetry Library

[jazzy_dave]

John Keats Everyman Poet Library (Everyman Poetry)

I rarely read poetry as a genre and sometimes I wonder if I should read more. This is why I picked up this cheap collection of some of the poetry of Keats last year.

Keats is one of the principal figures in the Romantic movement. His verse can be fanciful and intensely musical and this collection gives an indication of the breadth of his passions and concerns. A very concise little paperback.

It contains two of his best known poems “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode To A Grecian Urn” as well as part of “Endymion”

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Had Keats lived the course of English literature would have been very different. He had an extraordinary gift, but was little more than a kid when he died.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Keats also proposed the idea of negative capability, that is, "being in uncertainties,mysteries,doubts without any irritable reaching after facts and certainty."