Selected Letters Of The English Romantic Poets

Author : William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,William Blake,Percy Bysshe Shelley,John Keats,Byron,George Gordon Lord Byron
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 048684823X

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Selected Letters of the English Romantic Poets by William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,William Blake,Percy Bysshe Shelley,John Keats,Byron,George Gordon Lord Byron Pdf

The six poets who created the great works that form the core of British Romantic poetry--William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats--all explored the major Romantic themes of nature, death, the supernatural, the wonders of imagination, and the meaning of individual experience in their works. This book presents different sides of these poets' lives: from the great letter-writing age in which they lived, it includes examples of how they communicated with each other and their contemporaries, opening a window into the actual lives they lived.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141956909

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Selected Letters by John Keats Pdf

'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817. In a period of great letter-writing, Keats's letters are outstanding. They begin in summer 1816, as he approached his twenty-first birthday, and were written over the next four years until his early death. Viewed together, they give the fullest and most poignant record we have of Keats's ambitions and hopes as a poet, his life as a literary man about town, his close relationship with his brothers and young sister, and, later, his passionate, jealous and frustrated love for Fanny Brawne. Keats enclosed many of his poems with his letters, and read together, they offer an incomparable insight into his creative process and development as a poet. This major new edition edited by Professor John Barnard includes an introduction and notes, as well as a map of Keats's Scottish walking tour and reproductions of his letters. John Keats was born in October 1795. His Poems appeared in 1817, while Endymion was published in 1818, both to mixed reviews. In 1819 he wrote The Eve of St Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, the major odes, Lamia and the Fall of Hyperion. Keats was already unwell when preparing his 1820 volume for the press; by the time it appeared in July he was desperately ill. He died in Rome in 1821, in a rented apartment next to the Spanish Steps, at the age of twenty-five. John Barnard is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds and has edited The Complete Poems of Keats for Penguin Classics.

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811208737

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Selected Letters by Federico García Lorca Pdf

This first English-language edition of Federico Garcia Lorca's Selected Letters presents an intimate autobiographical record of the Spanish poet from the age of twenty to a month before his death at the hands of Franco's forces in 1936. "I was born for my friends," Lorca wrote to Melchor Fernández Almagro in 1926, and these letters reveal the personality his friends found so magical. ("A happiness, a brilliance..." Pablo Neruda called him.) Lorca was by turns sympathetic, generous, demanding, whimsical, insecure, and always lyrical. Over the nineteen years covered in this selection, he maintained a correspondence with his closest friends, particularly his childhood companion Melchor Fernández Almagro and his fellow poet Jorge Guillén, and wrote in concentrated bursts to many others. He could be playful with Salvador Dali's younger sister Ana Maria; deferential to composer Manuel de Falla; lively and descriptive with his family; and exasperating to Barcelona critic Sebastian Gasch as he poured out literary plans and solicited favors, ever impassioned but good-natured. With their frequent enclosures of poems and scenes from plays, the letters also chronicle Lorca's growth as an artist, from self-doubting romantic dilettante to confident, internationally respected playwright and poet. Begun at Columbia University under the aegis of Lorca's brother, Francisco Garcia Lorca, the translation and selection of these letters has been made by David Gershator, poet, teacher, and co-founder of the Downtown Poets Co-op. Dr. Gershator has also provided an informative biographical introduction.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674039394

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Selected Letters of John Keats by John Keats Pdf

The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle. This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's trifles as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It also offers a revealing look at his posthumous existence, the period of Keats's illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keats's deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr. James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse--omitted from other selections of Keats's letters--offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man. Edited for greater readability, with annotations reduced and punctuation and spelling judiciously modernized, this selection recreates the spontaneity with which these letters were originally written.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015002616780

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Complete Poems and Selected Letters by John Keats Pdf

Author : Jonathan Wordsworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141905655

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The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth Pdf

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0192840533

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Selected Letters by John Keats Pdf

This book contains a collection of Keats' letters, written over four years. With extraordinary candour and self-knowledge he gives us his experience of almost everything that can happen to a young man between the ages of 21 and 25.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307419354

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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats by John Keats Pdf

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen greatest English writers,' and T. S. Eliot has paid tribute to the Shakespearean quality of Keats's greatness. Indeed, his work has survived better than that of any of his contemporaries the devaluation of Romantic poetry that began early in this century. This Modern Library edition contains all of Keats's magnificent verse: 'Lamia,' 'Isabella,' and 'The Eve of St. Agnes'; his sonnets and odes; the allegorical romance Endymion; and the five-act poetic tragedy Otho the Great. Presented as well are the famous posthumous and fugitive poems, including the fragmentary 'The Eve of Saint Mark' and the great 'La Belle Dame sans Merci,' perhaps the most distinguished literary ballad in the language. 'No one else in English poetry, save Shakespeare, has in expression quite the fascinating felicity of Keats, his perception of loveliness,' said Matthew Arnold. 'In the faculty of naturalistic interpretation, in what we call natural magic, he ranks with Shakespeare.'

Author : Carolyn Washburn Houtchens,Lawrence Huston Houtchens
Publisher : New York : Modern Language Association of America
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : English essays
ISBN : UCAL:B3514741

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The English Romantic Poets and Essayists by Carolyn Washburn Houtchens,Lawrence Huston Houtchens Pdf

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674264991

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Selected Letters of John Keats by John Keats Pdf

The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It also offers a revealing look at his "posthumous existence," the period of Keats's illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keats's deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr. James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse--omitted from other selections of Keats's letters--offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man. Edited for greater readability, with annotations reduced and punctuation and spelling judiciously modernized, this selection recreates the spontaneity with which these letters were originally written.

Author : M. H. Abrams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1975-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195365436

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English Romantic Poets by M. H. Abrams Pdf

This highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonathan Wordsworth, and Jack Stillinger. Covering the major poems by each of the important Romantic poets, the contributors present many significant perspectives in modern criticism--old and new, discursive and explicative, mimetic and rhetorical, literal and mythical, archetypal and phenomenological, pro and con.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Random House
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409076636

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Bright Star by John Keats Pdf

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPION John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most moving love poetry ever written.

Author : Willard Spiegelman
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525658276

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Nothing Stays Put by Willard Spiegelman Pdf

An evocative portrait of the beloved and acclaimed poet, whose late-in-life success took the literary world by storm. “Clampitt comes to life here...Spiegelman’s Nothing Stays Put embodies a different kind of investigation, not surveillance but a thoughtful examination that at times still spins off into a kind of awe.” —The Washington Post With the publication of her first book of poems in her sixty-third year, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight, and living a whirlwind eleven years, until her death in 1994. Years later, as renowned poetry scholar Willard Spiegelman wades into her papers and poems, he discovers a woman of dazzling intellect, staunch progressive politics, and an inexhaustible sense of wonder for the world and the words we’ve invented to describe it. Giving equal weight to the life and the poetry, Spiegelman untangles Clampitt’s famously allusive lines to reveal the experiences they emerged from, pulling the curtain back on her nearly four decades of artistic anonymity, and in doing so assembling a rich period piece of Manhattan during the days in which Clampitt worked for Oxford University Press and the National Audubon Society—writing cheery, discursive office memos, and two novels that never got published, before hitting her stride in verse. Nothing Stays Put is a gift to poetry fans, an inspiration to artists striving at any age, and an ode to this most unlikely of literary celebrities, who would publish five acclaimed books and win a MacArthur “Genius Grant” nearly all in the final decade of her life.

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141932347

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Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the age of 21, he abandonned poetry and travelled across Europe before settling in Africa as an arms trader. This edition sets the two sides of Rimbaud side by side with a sparkling translation of his most exhilarating poetry and a generous selection of the letters from the harsh and colourful period of his life as a colonial trader.

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020306513

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With Wordsworth in England by William Wordsworth Pdf

This beautifully illustrated anthology brings together some of William Wordsworth's finest poetry and most insightful correspondence. Covering a wide range of themes and subjects, this collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the works of one of the greatest poets of the Romantic era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.