This substantial edition brings together Keats’s complete poetry—from the early sonnets and Endymion through the narrative poems, unfinished epics and great 1819 odes—alongside a selection of letters and prose.

Ugh, he's gorgeous in how me moves from lush, sometimes overgrown Romanticism toward a language capable of holding beauty and decay, sensation and thought, without forcing them into agreement.

Keats’s letters contain some of the most enduring thinking ever produced by a poet about artistic consciousness, including his idea of “negative capability”: the capacity to remain with uncertainty rather than strangling it for an answer. Edited and introduced by Harold Edgar Briggs, this is a useful reading edition for anyone wanting more than an anthology—the poems remain central, but the prose reveals the mind testing the principles by which they were made. 

Modern Library College Edition paperback, 1967, edited and introduced by Harold Edgar Briggs. Good condition with moderate cover rubbing, spine wear, light marks and age-toned pages.