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Title: The Complete Poems by John Keats, John Barnard ISBN: 0140422102 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: August, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential
Comment: No personal library can be complete without at least a sampling of Keats, and this is the book that everyone should get. All the poems -- even the fragments -- are here, with line numbers included. The several appendices and letter excerpts make the collection even more valuable. If you are trying to decide which Keats collection to get, you have found the best.
Rating: 5
Summary: The definitive edition of the poetry of Keats.
Comment: Jack Stillinger devoted much of his professional life to establishing the definitive texts of Keats's poems. This painstaking work has resulted in a number of changes to the poems. As to the quality of the poetry itself, at his best Keats approaches Shakespeare, as in the Odes. Stillinger is also an excellent teacher; I had his course on Keats 26 years ago, and it was fascinating. While the other reviewers have done a very good job of describing the beauty of Keats's poetry, one point Stillinger made about Keats as a person is worth repeating: Keats was the one English romantic poet that you would want to ask for advice about a personal problem you had. All the rest, Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley (especially!), and Byron would have given you advice that, if followed, would have been wildly impractical. Keats, as shown by his letters, was not pretentious and had a large degree of human decency and common sense. While these characteristics are not one usually associated with romantic poets, I think that they contribute to the strength of his poetry.
Rating: 5
Summary: Keats rivals Wordsworth as the greatest Romantic poet
Comment: ...and he rivals Shakespeare as the most perfect lyrical poet, the most exquisite shaper of words. Passages in the Odes (Melancholy is my favorite) are about as good as this language can expect to get, at least from a descriptive and sensual standpoint. Keats doesn't achieve the meditative transcendence of Wordsworth, but he has his own meditations -- usually more modest in scope, but made noble by the perfection of their expression.
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Title: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by Richard J. Finneran, William Butler Yeats ISBN: 0684807319 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Shelley's Poetry and Prose, Second Edition (Norton Critical Edition) by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat ISBN: 0393977528 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: William Wordsworth: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill ISBN: 0192840444 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Jerome J. McGann, Lord Byron George Gordon ISBN: 0192840401 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Keach ISBN: 0140423532 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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