Complete Poems

Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a self-confessed rebel Angel, endures for many as a personification of the n Romantic age. While contemporary critics mocked him as a Cockney poet and an uneducated lower-class apothecary n who aspired to poetry, subsequent generations began to see and appreciate both the rich and impassioned sensuousness and the love of beauty and liberty that pervade his work. n n From Endymion and Hyperion to `The Eve of St Agnes', `La Belle Dame sans Merci' and the Odes, this collection, which presents Keats's oeuvre in chronological order, displays his rapid poetic growth, the development of his philosophical n and spiritual beliefs and the voluptuous, silken nature of his verse.

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