The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John KeatsHoughton, Mifflin, 1899 - 473 Seiten In the few short years of his life John Keats created lasting images of beauty. He wrote with a firm touch, with rich yet controlled imagination, with a joyous delight in nature. He possessed an instant alchemy by which he transmuted all sights and sounds into poetry. Voracious reading set him standards rather than furnished him models, and he strove to perfect his poetry through constant creative revision. He pleaded for freedom of imagination as opposed to the constraints of the school of Pope. He traveled widely in a futile search for health. Finally, in Rome, at the age of twenty-five, John Keats died of consumption. -- From publisher's description. |
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... walk over to the Clarkes ' once a week or oftener to see his friends and borrow books . He was just fifteen when he began thus to equip himself for a place in the world , and for a little more than five years he was in training for the ...
... walk over to the Clarkes ' once a week or oftener to see his friends and borrow books . He was just fifteen when he began thus to equip himself for a place in the world , and for a little more than five years he was in training for the ...
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... walk in the woods or the stroll on the heath brought him face to face with the solitude which yielded indeed in his mind to pleasant converse , yet was , as he knew well , the direct road to converse with nature . Perhaps , in the lines ...
... walk in the woods or the stroll on the heath brought him face to face with the solitude which yielded indeed in his mind to pleasant converse , yet was , as he knew well , the direct road to converse with nature . Perhaps , in the lines ...
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... walking tour in the north with his friend Brown . His letters and the few poems of travel he wrote show how ardently he threw himself into this acquaintance with a new phase of nature . But he was to pass through experiences which ...
... walking tour in the north with his friend Brown . His letters and the few poems of travel he wrote show how ardently he threw himself into this acquaintance with a new phase of nature . But he was to pass through experiences which ...
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... Walking upon the white clouds wreath'd and curl'd . 140 So felt he , who first told , how Psyche went On the smooth wind to realms of wonder- ment ; What Psyche felt , and Love , when their full lips First touch'd ; what amorous and ...
... Walking upon the white clouds wreath'd and curl'd . 140 So felt he , who first told , how Psyche went On the smooth wind to realms of wonder- ment ; What Psyche felt , and Love , when their full lips First touch'd ; what amorous and ...
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... walks With him who elegantly chats and talks – The wrong'd Libertas , — who has told you stories - Of laurel chaplets , and Apollo's glories ; Of troops chivalrous prancing through a city , And tearful ladies made for love , and pity ...
... walks With him who elegantly chats and talks – The wrong'd Libertas , — who has told you stories - Of laurel chaplets , and Apollo's glories ; Of troops chivalrous prancing through a city , And tearful ladies made for love , and pity ...
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affectionate Brother JOHN Albert Auranthe beautiful BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON breath bright Brown Charles Armitage Brown Charles Cowden Clarke clouds Conrad dark DEAR death delight Dilke doth dream ears earth Endymion Erminia Ethelbert eyes fair FANNY FANNY BRAWNE fear feel flowers friend JOHN KEATS gentle George George Keats Gersa give Glocester Hampstead hand happy hast Haydon head hear heard heart heaven hope Hunt JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS Keats's kiss lady Lamia leave letter light lines lips live look Lord Lord Houghton Ludolph mind morning never night numbers o'er Otho pain pleasant pleasure poem Poetry poor Reynolds round seem'd sigh Sigifred silent sister sleep soft song sonnet soul spirit sweet tears Teignmouth tell thee thine thing THOMAS KEATS thou thought trees verses voice walk Wentworth Place wings words write written young
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Seite 121 - Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone...
Seite 125 - I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful — a faery's child; Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.
Seite 131 - Fade, far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Seite 142 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Seite 37 - Of all the unhealthy and o'erdarkened ways Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Seite 131 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth...
Seite 117 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Seite 119 - Tis dark; quick pattereth the flaw-blown sleet; "This is no dream, my bride, my Madeline!" Tis dark; the iced gusts still rave and beat: "No dream, alas! alas! and woe is mine! Porphyro will leave me here to fade and pine. Cruel! what traitor could thee hither bring? I curse not, for my heart is lost in thine, Though thou forsakest a deceived thing — A dove forlorn and lost, with sick, unpruned wing.
Seite 37 - Gainst the hot season ; the mid-forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead; All lovely tales that we have heard or read : An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.
Seite 117 - Agnes' charmed maid, Rose, like a mission'd spirit, unaware: With silver taper's light, and pious care, She turn'd, and down the aged gossip led To a safe level matting. Now prepare, Young Porphyro, for gazing on that bed; She comes, she comes again, like ring-dove fray'd and fled.