A greeting of the spirit : selected poetry of John Keats with commentaries / Susan J. Wolfson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keats, John, 1795-1821.

Contributor:

Wolfson, Susan J., 1948- editor, writer of added commentary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Keats, John, 1795-1821.

Keats, John.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 457 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"A renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet's extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring eighty-five verse selections with commentary. A Greeting of the Spirit greets everyone at every level of expertise who is interested in this extraordinary poetry of John Keats, interested in extraordinary imagination, interested in reading with care: adventurous undergraduates, graduate students, professional peers, and with its lucidity of style and access, anyone open to a spirited engagement with remarkable, phenomenal poetry"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Sonnet ventures: april 1814-april 1817

"O Peace!"

"Oh Chatterton!"

Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison

To Solitude

To My Brother George

"To one who has been long in city pent"

"How many bards gild the lapses of time!"

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

"Keen, fitful gusts"

To My Brothers

"Great Spirits now on earth"

"Written in disgust of vulgar superstition"

On the Grasshopper and Cricket

Sonnet ("After dark vapors")

To Haydon/With a Sonnet Written On seeing the Elgin Marbles

On the Sea

POEMS and a "long poem": march 1817-march 1818

From Poems

Dedication: To Leigh Hunt, Esq.

From Sleep and Poetry: the ten-year plan

A lovely tale of human life we'll read

O that I might know

From Endymion: A Poetic Romance

I "with full happiness... I / will trace the story of Endymion"

I. "fellowship divine"

II. The Bower of Adonis

II. "slippery blisses"

III. Circe and Glaucus

IV. "this Cave of Quietude"

Training, retraining, "new romance": december 1817-may 1818

Song ("In drear nighted December")

To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again

"O blush not so"

"When I have fears that I may cease to be"

To-("Time's sea")

Sonnet I To the Nile

Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus ("Blue!")

"the Thrush said"

"Rantipole Betty, a dawlish fair"

"Dear Reynolds"

From Isabella; or, The Poet of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio

Isabella's Lover; Isabella's Brothers

Isabella's Pot of Basil

Sonnet/To Homer. 1818

Ode to Maia

To the north, to the north: summer 1818

On visiting the Tomb of Burns

A song about mys elf ("There was a naughty Boy")

To Ailsa Rock

Sonnet ("This mortal body")

Lines written in the highlands after a visit to Burns's Country

Writing Ben Nevis

"a little conversation... between the mountain and the Lady, Mrs C."

"a Sonnet I wrote on the top of Ben Nevis"

Wide venturing: fall 1818-april 1819

An Epic Fragment, A Roaming, A Romance, A Ballad

From Hyperion. A Fragment

Book I "the shady sadness of a vale"

Saturn and Thea

"Blazing Hyperion yet unsecure"

Book III "Apollo, the Father of all verse"

Fancy

The Eve of St. Agnes

La belle dame sans merci and La Belle Dame sans Mercy

Garlands of their own: spring-summer 1819

"Why did I laugh to-night?"

A dream, after reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and Francesca

On Fame and Another on Fame

"Incipit Altera Sonneta" ("If by dull rhymes our english must be chaind")

Re: generating the Ode, Spring 1819

Ode on Indolence

Ode to Psyche

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode on Melancholy

All I Live For: Last Poems, August 1819-Winter 1820

From Lamia

I. "Upon a time"

I. "a gordian shape"

I. Hermes and the nymph; She-serpent to woman's form

II. "What wreath?"

II. Found and wound

Ending, Unending

From the Fall of Hyperion. A Dream

Canto I: "written for a sort of induction-"

"Thou hast felt/What `tis to die"

Moneta's globed brain

Reliving Hyperion: no relief

Canto I into Canto II: Hyperion at last, and once again

To Autumn

Late intimacies and sonnets still, still unstill

Sonnet (1819): "I cry your mercy"

"The day is gone"

Sonnet to Sleep

"Bright Star"

"This living hand".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Keats, John, 1795-1821. O Peace!

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780674980891

0674980891

OCLC:

1302331450