The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats (Classic Reprint) Book

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH John Keats was born in Finsbury, London, on either the 29th or the 31st of October, 1795. .He died in an apartment overlooking the Piazza di Spagna, Rome, February 23, 1821. Thus his life was a brief span of a few months more than twenty-five years, and as his first acknowledged verses were written in the autumn of 1813, and his last sonnet was composed in the autumn of 1820, his poetical career was seven years long. Within that time he composed the verses included in this volume, yet by far the largest portion may bo referred to the three years 1818-1820, and if one distilled the whole, the precious deposit would be but a few hundred lines. For all that, perhaps because of it, and because Keats with his warm human passion wrote what is almost an autobiography in his letters, we are able to get a tolerably clear notion of his early training and associations, and to follow quite closely the development of his nature after he began to devote himself to poetry. His fTable of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH; ???? XV; POEMS; EARLY POEMS; Imitation of Spenser 1; On Death 1; To Chattekton 2; To Byron 2; * Woman i when i behold ???? flippant, vain ' 2; To Some Ladies 3; 0>t receiving a curious ShJSIX and a; Copy op Verses prom the Same Ladies 4; Written on ??? Day that Ms Leigh Hunt left Pbison 5; To ????5; Ode ?? ?????6; Hymn to Apollo7; To a Young Laky who sent me a; Laurel Crown 7 Sonnet : 'How many baeds gild the; lapses of time '8; Sonnet : 1 Keen, fitful ousts are; WHISr'llING hebe and there ' 8; Spenserian Stanza, written at the Close of Canto ii, Book v, of 1 The Faekie Qceene ' 8; On leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour9; ?On first looking into Chapman's Homer9; Epistle to George Felton Mathew 9; To -: 'Hadst thoo liy'd in days; ofRead More