A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries
Susan J. Wolfson, "A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries"
English | ISBN: 0674980891 | 2022 | 480 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0674980891 | 2022 | 480 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet’s extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary.
John Keats’s career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than four years, cut short by his death early in 1821 at age twenty-five. Yet in this time, he produced a remarkable―and remarkably wide-ranging―body of work that has secured his place as one of the most influential poets in the British literary tradition. Celebrated Keats scholar Susan J. Wolfson presents seventy-eight selections from his work, each accompanied by a commentary on its form, style, meanings, and relevant contexts.
In this edition, readers will rediscover a virtuoso poet, by turns lively, experimental, self-ironizing, outrageous, and philosophical. Wolfson includes such well-known favorites as
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