A Routledge literary sourcebook on the poems of John Keats

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A Routledge literary sourcebook on the poems of John Keats

edited by John Strachan

(Routledge literary sourcebooks / series editor, Duncan Wu)

Routledge, 2003

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes index

Chronology: p. [9]-11

Further reading: p. [189]-191

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This sourcebook offers the ideal introduction to the work of John Keats, a central figure in English Romanticism and one of the most popular poets in the literary canon. The sourcebook is arranged in four sections: Contexts, Interpretations, Key Poems and Further Reading. Each combines clear introductory passgaes with relevant reprinted documents. Key features include: a chronology of Keats's life and excerpts from his letters an overview of the criticism of his work, from early responses to important recent essays excerpts from a range of critical texts, with explanatory headnotes extensively annotated full texts or key passages from Keats's most widely studied poems helpful recommendations for further reading. Cross-referencing throughout the volume highlights the links between texts, contexts and reception, enabling even beginners to make original and informed readings of Keats's epoque-changing work.

Table of Contents

  • Includes annotated full texts of: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, To Sleep, Ode to Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on A Grecian Urn, Ode on Melancholy, To Autumn, as well as extracts from Endymion, Isabella
  • or, The Pot of Basil, Hyperion, Lamia, and The Fall of Hyperion.

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