This compact collection brings together thirty poems by John Keats, one of the central figures of English Romantic poetry, whose brief literary career produced some of the nineteenth century's most enduring verse.

Moving between pastoral landscapes, classical mythology, romantic longing and the pleasures of artistic discovery, these poems explore the relationship between beauty and transience, imagination and experience. There's the familiar works such as On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, but the selection includes passages from Keats's longer narrative poems and less frequently anthologised pieces. An accessible introduction to Keats's lyrical imagination, retaining the richness, melancholy and extraordinary attentiveness of his poetry. The poems are so beautiful, worth it for any budding poet or literature appreciator. 

Edition/Condition: Dover Thrift Editions, 1991. Paperback, unabridged selection of thirty poems, edited by Stanley Appelbaum. Good condition, with light shelf wear and some age-toning to pages. Interior appears clean and unmarked.