John Keats (1795-1821) is considered, despite his death at the age of twenty-six, one of the most important figures of early nineteenth century Romanticism. The ideas and themes in Keats' poetry are quintessentially Romantic: The reverence for nature, the relationship between creativity and the imagination, the notion of beauty and suffering and the transience of human life.
Introduction
i: Introduction Chapter
1: 'I am as brisk' Chapter
2: Song ('Stay, ruby
breasted warbler, stay') Chapter
3: 'Give me Women, Wine, and Snuff' Chapter
4: 'To one who has been in long city pent' Chapter
5: 'O! how I love, on a fair summer's eve' Chapter
6: To my Brother George ('Full many a dreary hour have I passed') Chapter
7: To Charles Cowden Clarke Chapter
8: 'How many bards gild the lapses of time!' Chapter
9: On First Looking in To Chapman's Homer Chapter
10: On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour Chapter
11: 'Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there' Chapter
12: 'Great spirits now on earth are sojourning' Chapter
13: 'I stood tip
toe upon a little hill' Chapter
14: from Sleep and Poetry Chapter
15: Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition Chapter
16: On the Grasshopper and the Cricket Chapter
17: 'After dark vapours have oppressed our plains' Chapter
18: Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's Tale of 'The Floure and the Leafe' Chapter
19: On Seeing the Elgin Marbles Chapter
20: On the Sea Chapter
21: from Endymion: A Poetic Romance Chapter
22: 'In drear
nighted December' Chapter
23: On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Again Chapter
24: 'Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port' Chapter
25: Robin Hood Chapter
26: 'Lines on the Mermaid Tavern' Chapter
27: 'When I have fears that I may cease to be' Chapter
28: The Human Seasons Chapter
29: To J. H. Reynolds, Esq. Chapter
30: Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil Chapter
31: On Visiting the Tomb of Burns Chapter
32: 'Old Meg she was a gipsy' Chapter
33: Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns's Country Chapter
34: 'Where's the poet? Show him, show him' Chapter
35: 'And what is Love? It is a doll dressed up' Chapter
36: Hyperion. A Fragment Chapter
37: Fancy Chapter
38: Ode ('Bards of passion and of mirth') Chapter
39: Song ('I had a dove and the sweet dove died') Chapter
40: Song ('Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush my dear!') Chapter
41: The Eve of St Agnes Chapter
42: 'Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell' Chapter
43: A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode of Paulo and Francesca Chapter
44: La Belle Dame Sans Merci. A Ballad Chapter
45: To Sleep Chapter
46: 'If by dull rhymes our English must be chained' Chapter
47: Ode to Psyche Chapter
48: Ode on a Grecian Urn Chapter
49: Ode to a Nightingale Chapter
50: from Ode on Melancholy Chapter
51: Lamia Chapter
52: 'Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes' Chapter
53: To Autumn Chapter
54: The Fall of Hyperion. A Dream Chapter
55: 'The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone' Chapter
56: 'What can I do to drive away' Chapter
57: 'I cry your mercy, pity, love
ay, love!' Chapter
58: 'Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art' Chapter
59: To Fanny Chapter
60: 'This living hand, now warm and capable' Index
ii: Index of Poem Titles Index
iii: Index of First Lines
