Select Works of John Keats (3 vols.)

by John Keats; F. M. Owen

Publishers:

George Bell and Sons; Macmillan and Co.; C. Kegan Paul & Co.

, 1880–1925

Overview

One of the most prominent poets of the English Romantic movement, John Keats held a brief yet significant writing career. In six years, he accomplished more than many writers could hope to achieve in a lifetime. Keats employed powerful sensory imagery to create odes, sonnets, and letters that have had a lasting literary impact. Keats’ poems and letters rank among the most popular and most studied in the English canon.

Included in the Select Works of John Keats is a collection of over 60 of Keats’ most significant poems, as well as 164 of his personal letters to friends and family, which T. S. Eliot says are “certainly the most notable and most important [letters] ever written by any English poet.” The collection also includes a concise, accessible study of John Keats’ significance by Mrs. Frances M. Owen.

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Key Features

• Over 60 poems by one of the most prominent poets of the English Romantic movement
• 164 of John Keats’ personal letters
• A concise, accessible study of John Keats’ significance

Praise for the Author

The loveliest and the last The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew Died on the promise of the fruit

—Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Product Details

• Title: Select Works of John Keats
• Author: John Keats
• Volumes: 3
• Pages: 918

Poems

• Author: John Keats
• Editor: Walter Raleigh
• Publisher: George Bell and Sons
• Publication Date: 1907
• Pages: 337

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This volume contains over 60 of Keats’ essential poems, including his famous odes, sonnets, and miscellaneous poems, as well as an introduction by John Walter Raleigh.

“Ode to a Nightingale,” [is] one of the final masterpieces of human work in all time and for all ages . . .

—Algernon Charles Swinburne, contributor, Encyclopedia Britannica, six-time nominee, Nobel Prize in Literature

[The odes] are a group of works in which the English language find ultimate embodiment.

—Helen Hennessy Vendler, American literary critic

Each generation has found [“To Autumn”] one of the most nearly perfect poems in English . . .

—Jonathan Bate, professor of English literature, University of Oxford

[“To Autumn”] is the most serenely flawless poem in our language.

—M. R. Ridley, publisher

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861–1922) was an English professor, poet, and author. Raleigh held positions at the University of Liverpool, Glasgow University, and Oxford University. His major works include The English Novel, Wordsworth, Milton, Shakespeare, and The War in the Air, Volume 1: The Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force.

Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

• Author: John Keats
• Editor: Sidney Colvin
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Publication Date: 1925
• Pages: 398

This volume contains 164 letters written by John Keats. Keats’ powerful prose is considered every bit as beautiful as his poetry, and his letters inspired numerous other writers, including T. S. Eliot and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

. . . certainly the most notable and most important [letters] ever written by any English poet. . . . There is hardly one statement of Keats’ about poetry which . . . will not be found to be true, and what is more, true for greater and more mature poetry than anything Keats ever wrote.

—T. S. Eliot, recipient, 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature

Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927) was an English literary critic and friend of Robert Louis Stevenson’s. Colvin was a fellow of Trinity College, Slade Professor of Fine Art, and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. He was also knighted in 1911. He published biographies of Walter Savage Landor and John Keats, as well as A Florentine Picture-Chronicle and Early History of Engraving in England.

John Keats: A Study

• Author: F. M. Owen
• Publisher: C. Kegan Paul & Co.
• Publication Date: 1880
• Pages: 183

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This volume seeks to instill an appreciation for Keats’ mastery of poetic verse. The study examines Keats’ work and discusses his literary prowess.

An important book in the history of the criticism of Keats’ genius

—Robert Bridges, British poet laureate, 1913–1930

Mrs. Owen’s pretty little volume will do good work if it attracts to the study of Keats those whom more elaborate analysis will leave still outside the circle of his magic charm.

—Academy

About John Keats

John Keats (1795–1821) was one of the pillars of English Romanticism, alongside Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. In just six years of writing, Keats made an astonishingly brief transition from apprentice to master, and established himself among the best poets in the English canon. His poems were in publication for only four years before his death, but they continue to be popular nearly 200 years later. Keats’ poetry is known for its exceptional sensory imagery, but T. S. Eliot said of Keats’ letters, “There is hardly one statement of Keats’ about poetry which . . . will not be found to be true, and what is more, true for greater and more mature poetry than anything Keats ever wrote.” Keats died of tuberculosis at age 25.