Poèmes et Poésies

by John Keats, Marc Porée, Paul Gallimard (translator)

For this reason, this volume presents the writings in the order of publication rather than composition. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews, and related material chronologically interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers extensive apparatus to help readers fully appreciate Keats s poetry and legacy, including an introduction, headnotes, explanatory annotations, and a wealth of contextual documents. Criticism includes twelve important commentaries on Keats and his poetry, by Paul de Man, Marjorie Levinson, Grant F. Scott, Margaret Homans, Nicholas Roe, Stuart Sperry, Neil Fraistat, Jack Stillinger, James Chandler, Alan Bewell, and Jeffrey N. Cox.

Genres: Poetry, Classics, Literature, Romanticism, 19th Century, Fiction, British Literature

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1819

About the author

Rich melodic works in classical imagery of English poet John Keats include " The Eve of Saint Agnes ," " Ode on a Grecian Urn ," and " To Autumn ," all in 1819.

Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley include "Adonais," an elegy of 1821 to John Keats.

Work of the principal of the Romantic movement of England received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day during his short life. He nevertheless posthumously immensely influenced poets, such as Alfred Tennyson. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize poetry, including a series of odes, masterpieces of Keats among the most popular poems in English literature. Most celebrated letters of Keats expound on his aesthetic theory of "negative capability."

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Reviews

[Kajah · Rating 5 out of 5]

It feels a little weird giving a star rating to Johnny motherfucking Keats so my rating is more for the Norton Critical Edition I own, which lives up to the reputation of other Norton Critical editions. In addition to poetry this has a huge sampling of prose and epistolary, including letters to his beloved Fanny Brawne, which may interest those of you who saw the Keats biopic Bright Star. Of course, it has some essays as well that will shed some light on the world of Keats and his milieu, I’ve on read a couple but they were pretty comprehensive. If you like Keats, it’s a no brained unless you’re would be irritated to have a bunch of non poetry content in your poetry collection (you Philistine)

[meryem. ♡ · Rating 2 out of 5]

someone tell that try-hard that being different is OK - my boy needs to chill out

[Natalie Corsello · Rating 2 out of 5]

Him and Percy Shelley are duchebags irl but some poems are good

[𝕾𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖍 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lire John Keats, c’est entrer dans une poésie où la beauté est à la fois refuge et blessure. Ses poèmes sont traversés par une sensibilité intense, presque douloureuse, où l’amour, la nature, le temps et la mort se répondent sans jamais se résoudre.

Tout n’est pas immédiatement accessible : certaines images demandent lenteur et attention, parfois même une relecture. Mais quand la poésie touche juste, elle touche profondément. Keats écrit avec une mélancolie lumineuse, une douceur tragique qui rend chaque vers fragile et éternel à la fois.

Ce recueil n’est pas une lecture à dévorer, mais à habiter. À lire dans le silence, quand l’âme est un peu ouverte. Une poésie qui ne cherche pas à expliquer le monde, mais à le ressentir.

[Marjolaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

C’était sympathique. On retrouve les grandes thématiques liées au romantisme et à l’amour. J’ai préféré la seconde moitié du recueil, qui m’a particulièrement plus plu. Mon poème préféré est celui d’Isabelle et de son basilic. En définitive une lecture agréable mais sans plus.

[Stanzie · Rating 3 out of 5]

BORING. I'm BORED. I want to love it but I only have BORING things to say about it.

[Marion · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't what I preferred - Keats's actual poetry or the letter he sent to people, and especially those he sent to Fanny. "Happy happy England! I could me content" must be one of my favourite poems.

[Felipe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Verse, Fame, and Beauty are intense indeed,
But Death intenser -- Death is Life's high meed.

[Vinay Arun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hyperion + Fall of Hyperion 6/5 stars

[Keith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820): This is Keats’ last book. It contains what many people consider his finest work including his odes (Autumn, Grecian Urn, Nightingale).

Keats is not a figurative poet, like Shakespeare, but he is certainly a mellifluous poet, an articulate poet. Like Tennyson, he voice is pure music. His poetry has an easy quality but it belies with unexpected rimes and rhythms.

Has anyone come up with a more beautiful way to say, “Meanwhile”?

“Just at the self-same beat of Time’s wide wings” (Hyperion, Book II)

For the most part, the narrative poems in the title were not very compelling. I’m not interested in these kinds of gothic, quasi-romantic tales. Hyperion is very good, even though it draws very heavily on Milton’s Paradise Lost. (Didn’t Virgil’s Aeneid draw heavily from the Iliad and Odyssey?) It has a beautiful, tragic cadence. I also read The Fall of Hyperion, but it was not nearly as good as Hyperion.

[Mark Bennett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mind-blowing and transformative. No words can capture it. A unique organization of poems and letters (extensive array of the letters to friends, family and Fanny Brawne).

If only to read one poem, "Ode To A Nightingale" all worth it. Go to my website to read and hear a splendid reading from actor Ben Whishaw.

One of those books, one of those authors that touch and transform you in a way no other can.

[ZaRi]

Where's the Poet? show him! show him,
Muses nine! that I may know him.
'Tis the man who with a man
Is an equal, be he King,
Or poorest of the beggar-clan
Or any other wonderous thing
A man may be 'twixt ape and Plato;
'Tis the man who with a bird,
Wren or Eagle, finds his way to
All its instincts; he hath heard
The Lion's roaring, and can tell
What his horny throat expresseth,
And to him the Tiger's yell
Come articulate and presseth
Or his ear like mother-tongue.

[David reider · Rating 5 out of 5]

as soon as amazon finds my copy of this book i am going to immerse (had to use a literary word, sorry) myself back into the world of Romantic poetry. Keats has written some of the bestest most amazingest poems, like, ever.

[Phoebe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Initially purchased to aid a university module I find myself going back to this time and time again. Contains a substantial amount of Keats's work and expresses development from his earlier poetry to his more mature canonical Odes. Overall, a very interesting and useful collection.

[Pierre-Jean Colas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Non présence des textes originaux => perte de la musicalité poétique.

[Iqra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great collection of poems

[A. Anupama · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love "Sleep and Poetry," and great to read the odes all together. The letters are wonderful.