Complete Poems
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Complete Poems

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Complete Poems

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Here is the first reliable edition of John Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students.

Upon its publication in 1978, Jack Stillinger's The Poems of John Keats won exceptionally high praise: "The definitive Keats," proclaimed The New Republic—"An authoritative edition embodying the readings the poet himself most probably intended, prepared by the leading scholar in Keats textual studies."

Now this scholarship is at last available in a graceful, clear format designed to introduce students and general readers to the "real" Keats. In place of the textual apparatus that was essential to scholars, Stillinger here provides helpful explanatory notes. These notes give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Chronology
  4. Poems
  5. Imitation of Spenser
  6. On Peace
  7. Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles's Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing
  8. Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay
  9. Fill for me a brimming bowl
  10. As from the darkening gloom a silver dove
  11. To Lord Byron
  12. Oh Chatterton! how very sad thy fate
  13. Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison
  14. To Hope
  15. Ode to Apollo
  16. To Some Ladies
  17. On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies
  18. O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown
  19. Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain
  20. O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell
  21. To George Felton Mathew
  22. Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs
  23. Hadst thou liv'd in days of old
  24. I am as brisk
  25. Give me women, wine, and snuff
  26. Specimen of an Induction to a Poem
  27. Calidore: A Fragment
  28. To one who has been long in the city pent
  29. Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve
  30. To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses
  31. Happy is England! I could be content
  32. To My Brother George (sonnet)
  33. To My Brother George (epistle)
  34. To Charles Cowden Clarke
  35. How many bards gild the lapses of time
  36. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
  37. Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there
  38. On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour
  39. To My Brothers
  40. Addressed to Haydon
  41. Addressed to the Same
  42. To G. A. W.
  43. To Kosciusko
  44. Sleep and Poetry
  45. I stood tip-toe upon a little hill
  46. Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
  47. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
  48. After dark vapours have oppressed our plains
  49. To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown
  50. On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt
  51. To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown'd
  52. God of the golden bow
  53. This pleasant tale is like a little copse
  54. To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
  55. On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
  56. To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles
  57. On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me
  58. On The Story of Rimini
  59. On the Sea
  60. Unfelt, unheard, unseen
  61. Hither, hither, love
  62. You say you love; but with a voice
  63. Before he went to live with owls and bats
  64. The Gothic looks solemn
  65. Oh grant that like to Peter I
  66. Think not of it, sweet one, so
  67. Endymion: A Poetic Romance
  68. In drear nighted December
  69. Apollo to the Graces
  70. To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat
  71. Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair
  72. On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
  73. When I have fears that I may cease to be
  74. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
  75. O blush not so! O blush not so
  76. Hence burgundy, claret, and port
  77. God of the meridian
  78. Robin Hood
  79. Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow
  80. To the Nile
  81. Spenser, a jealous honorer of thine
  82. Blue! - 'Tis the life of heaven - the domain
  83. O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind
  84. Extracts from an Opera
  85. Four seasons fill the measure of the year
  86. For there's Bishop's Teign
  87. Where be ye going, you Devon maid
  88. Over the hill and over the dale
  89. Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed
  90. To J.R.
  91. Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
  92. Mother of Hermes! and still youthful Maia
  93. To Homer
  94. Give me your patience, sister, while I frame
  95. Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes
  96. On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
  97. Old Meg she was a gipsey
  98. There was a naughty boy
  99. Ah! ken ye what I met the day
  100. To Ailsa Rock
  101. This mortal body of a thousand days
  102. All gentle folks who owe a grudge
  103. Of later two dainties were before me plac'd
  104. There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain
  105. Not Aladdin magian
  106. Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud
  107. Upon my life, Sir Nevis, I am piqu'd
  108. On Some Skulls in Beauley Abbey, near Inverness
  109. Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies
  110. Fragment of Castle-builder
  111. And what is Love? - It is a doll dress'd up
  112. 'Tis the "witching time of night"
  113. Where's the Poet? Show him! show him
  114. Fancy
  115. Bards of passion and of mirth
  116. Spirit here that reignest
  117. I had a dove, and the sweet dove died
  118. Hush, hush, tread softly, hush, hush, my dear
  119. Ah! woe is me! poor Silver-wing
  120. The Eve of St. Agnes
  121. The Eve of St. Mark
  122. Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell
  123. When they were come unto the Faery's court
  124. As Hermes once took to his feathers light
  125. Character of C. B.
  126. Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
  127. Hyperion: A Fragment
  128. La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
  129. Song of Four Fairies: Fire, Air, Earth, and Water
  130. Sonnet to Sleep
  131. Ode to Psyche
  132. On Fame ("Fame, like a wayward girl")
  133. On Fame ("How fever'd is the man")
  134. If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd
  135. Two or three posies
  136. Ode to a Nightingale
  137. Ode to a Grecian Urn
  138. Ode on Melancholy
  139. Ode on Indolence
  140. Shed no tear - O shed no tear
  141. Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts
  142. Lamia
  143. Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes
  144. To Autumn
  145. The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
  146. The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone
  147. I cry your mercy - pity - love! - aye, love
  148. What can I do to drive away
  149. To Fanny
  150. King Stephen: A Fragment of a Tragedy
  151. The Jealousies: A Faery Tale, by Lucy Vaughan Lloyd of China Walk, Lambeth
  152. In after time a sage of mickle lore
  153. Abbreviations
  154. Selected Bibliography
  155. Commentary
  156. Appendix: The Contents of 1817 and 1820
  157. Index of Titles and First Lines