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Poetry
Chapters (130)
- Imitation of Spenser 0:00
- On Death 2:14
- To Byron 2:48
- To Chatterton 3:52
- Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison 4:47
- To Hope 5:56
- Ode to Apollo 9:02
- To Some Ladies 11:47
- On Receiving a Curious Shell and a Copy of Verses from the Same Ladies 13:51
- Stanzas to Miss Wylie 16:47
- “Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain” 18:12
- To ⸻ 21:07
- Sonnet: Happy Is England! 22:10
- Sonnet: How Many Bards 23:03
- On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer 23:59
- Epistle to George Felton Mathew 25:02
- Specimen of an Induction to a Poem 30:54
- Calidore 35:04
- To ⸻ 44:51
- To G. A. W. 48:00
- Sonnet: As from the Darkening Gloom 48:52
- On a Picture of Leander 49:52
- Sonnet: Oh! How I Love 50:52
- Sonnet to Solitude 51:54
- Sonnet: To One Who Has Long in City Pent 52:56
- To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown 53:47
- To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses 54:43
- To My Brother George 55:47
- Epistle to My Brother George 56:48
- Epistle to Charles Cowden Clarke 1:06:13
- Sonnet: Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whisp’ring 1:14:51
- On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour 1:15:48
- To My Brothers 1:16:45
- Addressed to Benjamin Robert Haydon 1:17:59
- Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition 1:19:43
- To Kosciusko 1:20:42
- On the Grasshopper and Cricket 1:21:37
- Hymn to Apollo 1:22:37
- Sleep and Poetry 1:24:05
- “I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill” 1:50:14
- Sonnet: After Dark Vapours 2:06:02
- Written on the Blank Space at the End of Chaucer’s Tale of The Floure and the Lefe 2:07:02
- To Haydon 2:08:09
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 2:09:00
- On Leigh Hunt’s Poem, The Story of Rimini 2:09:51
- To Leigh Hunt, Esq. 2:10:53
- On the Sea 2:11:44
- Endymion 2:12:40
- On Oxford 6:36:16
- On ⸻ 6:36:59
- Lines 6:37:51
- Stanzas 6:38:57
- To a Cat 6:39:53
- Sharing Eve’s Apple 6:41:06
- What the Thrush Said 6:42:11
- Robin Hood 6:43:05
- Lines on the Mermaid Tavern 6:45:51
- A Song of Opposites 6:47:00
- On Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair 6:48:42
- “Where’s the Poet? Show Him! Show Him” 6:50:39
- A Draught of Sunshine 6:51:29
- Song: Hush, Hush! Tread Softly! 6:53:14
- Extracts from an Opera 6:55:42
- Faery Songs 6:59:36
- On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 7:01:43
- Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be 7:02:35
- To a Lady Seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall 7:03:33
- To Spenser 7:04:30
- To the Nile 7:05:21
- Written in Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus 7:06:16
- To Homer 7:07:30
- To John Hamilton Reynolds 7:08:22
- The Human Seasons 7:09:19
- The Devon Maid 7:10:12
- Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds 7:11:03
- At Teignmouth 7:18:06
- Fragment of an Ode to Maia 7:19:39
- Isabella, or the Pot of Basil 7:20:23
- An Extempore 7:52:02
- Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown 7:57:47
- Two or Three Posies 7:59:36
- Acrostic 8:00:44
- A Song About Myself 8:02:06
- On Visiting the Tomb of Burns 8:04:57
- Meg Merrilies 8:06:05
- To Ailsa Rock 8:07:24
- Written in the Cottage Where Burns Was Born 8:08:21
- Lines Written in the Highlands After a Visit to Burns’s Country 8:09:16
- At Fingal’s Cave 8:13:45
- Written Upon the Top of Ben Nevis 8:16:13
- The Gadfly 8:17:09
- To Thomas Keats 8:19:23
- On Hearing the Bag-Pipe and Seeing “The Stranger” Played at Inverary 8:21:23
- Mrs. Cameron and Ben Nevis 8:22:36
- Translation from a Sonnet of Ronsard 8:28:15
- A Prophecy 8:29:06
- Song 8:31:49
- Fancy 8:32:31
- Ode 8:37:07
- Modern Love 8:39:01
- Fragment of “The Castle Builder” 8:40:18
- Song: Spirit Here That Reignest! 8:43:24
- Spenserian Stanza 8:44:23
- Hyperion 8:45:07
- The Eve of St. Agnes 9:41:32
- The Eve of St. Mark 10:07:16
- Ode on Indolence 10:13:28
- Ode on a Grecian Urn 10:17:18
- Ode on Melancholy 10:20:42
- Sonnet: Why Did I Laugh To-Night? 10:22:30
- A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode of “Paolo and Francesca” 10:23:35
- Ode to Fanny 10:24:32
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci 10:27:43
- Chorus of Fairies 10:30:14
- To Sleep 10:35:37
- Another on Fame 10:36:44
- On Fame 10:37:43
- Sonnet: If by Dull Rhymes 10:38:41
- Ode to Psyche 10:39:36
- Ode to a Nightingale 10:43:50
- Lamia 10:49:00
- A Party of Lovers 11:35:20
- To Autumn 11:36:53
- Sonnet: The Day Is Gone 11:39:00
- To Fanny 11:40:01
- Lines to Fanny 11:41:19
- Hyperion: A Vision 11:44:49
- The Cap and Bells 12:17:29
- To George Keats 13:08:18
- The Last Sonnet 13:09:14
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John Keats’ poems are a major part of the second wave of English Romantic poetry. They portray settings loaded with symbolism and sensuality, and draw heavily on Greek and Roman myth along with romanticised tales of chivalry. Keats died in 1821 at the young age of 25, having written the majority of his work in less than four years. While not appreciated during his lifetime, he has gone on to become one of the most loved of the Romantic poets, and has provided inspiration to authors as diverse as Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen and Neil Gaiman.
This collection includes among others early work such as “On Death,” the six odes written in 1819, his two epics Hyperion and Endymion, and “To Autumn,” now widely considered to be one of the best English short poems. Keats’ works are presented here in chronological order, and include the poems published in his lifetime and other unfinished fragments and posthumous verse.