Description
As a boy, John Keats was a passionate, possessive, even wilful CLIPPER
character, as if he knew that, with just 25 years of lifespan, there was
little time at his disposal. By the time of his death in 1821, he had
written a body of poetry which proved a key contribution to the
English Romantic movement, though this was scarcely recognised
in his lifetime.
This general selection includes many of his finest poems, especially
the Odes, including Ode to Melancholy, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to
a Nightingale as well as more popular verse such as Old Meg and
There was a Naughty Boy. The anthology ends with his longer
narrative poem, The Eve of St Agnes.