The Poetical Works of JOHN KEATS

The Poetical Works of John Keats

Esta refinada edição de The Poetical Works of John Keats integra a tradicional coleção The World’s Classics, da Oxford University Press, oferecendo ao leitor uma apresentação completa da obra do poeta inglês em ordem cronológica. O volume reúne os poemas mais marcantes de Keats, desde suas primeiras composições até os trabalhos tardios, passando por seus famosos sonetos, longos poemas narrativos e fragmentos póstumos.

A edição inclui os livros Poems (1817), Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818) e Lamia, Isabella, etc. (1820), além de uma seção de poemas póstumos e fugidios (Posthumous and Fugitive Poems) e obras compostas em seus últimos anos. Destaque para clássicos como Ode to a Nightingale, To Autumn, La Belle Dame sans Merci, The Eve of St. Agnes, Bright Star e a tragédia inacabada The Fall of Hyperion.

Organizada com esmero editorial, esta edição preserva o estilo e a sensibilidade do Romantismo inglês, sendo uma excelente oportunidade para conhecer ou revisitar o lirismo, a musicalidade e a intensidade emocional que consagraram Keats como um dos maiores nomes da poesia universal.

Conteúdo da obra

Poems (1817)

Dedication. To Leigh Hunt, Esq.

‘I stood tip-toe upon a little hill’

Specimen of an Induction to a Poem

Calidore. A Fragment

To Some Ladies

On receiving a curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the same Ladies

To Hope

Imitation of Spenser

‘Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain’

Epistles

To George Felton Mathew

To my Brother George

To Charles Cowden Clarke

Sonnets

To my Brother George

Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison

‘How many bards gild the lapses of time!’

To a Friend who sent me some Roses

To G.A.W.

‘O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell’

To my Brothers

‘Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there’

‘To one who has been long in city pent’

On first looking into Chapman’s Homer

On leaving some Friends at an early Hour

Addressed to Haydon

Addressed to the same

On the Grasshopper and Cricket

To Kosciusko

‘Happy is England!’

Sleep and Poetry

Endymion: A Poetic Romance

Preface

Book I

Book II

Book III

Book IV

Lamia, Isabella, etc. (1820)

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Lamia. Part I

Lamia. Part II

Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil

Boccaccio

The Eve of St. Agnes

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode to Psyche

Fancy

Ode ‘Bards of Passion and of Mirth’

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern

Robin Hood. To a Friend

To Autumn

Ode on Melancholy

Hyperion. Book I

Hyperion. Book II

Hyperion. Book III

Posthumous and Fugitive Poems

On Death

Women, Wine, and Snuff

‘Fill for me a brimming bowl’

Sonnet on Peace

Sonnet to Byron

Sonnet to Chatterton

Sonnet to Spenser

Ode to Apollo

Sonnet to a Young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown

On receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt

To the Ladies who saw me Crown’d

Hymn to Apollo

Sonnet ‘As from the darkening gloom’

Stanzas to Miss Wylie

Sonnet ‘Oh how I love, on a fair summer’s eve’

Sonnet ‘Before he went to feed with owls and bats’

Sonnet written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition

Sonnet ‘After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains’

Sonnet written at the end of ‘The Floure and the Lefe’

Sonnet to Haydon

Sonnet on seeing the Elgin Marbles

Sonnet on a Picture of Leander

To — ‘Think not of it, sweet one, so’

Lines ‘Unfelt, unheard, unseen’

Sonnet on the Sea

Sonnet on Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini’

On Oxford: a Parody

The Poet: a Fragment

Modern Love

Fragments of The Castle Builder

A Song of Opposites ‘Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow’

Sonnet to a Cat

Lines on seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair

Sonnet on sitting down to read King Lear once again

Sonnet ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’

Sharing Eve’s Apple

A Draught of Sunshine ‘Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port’

Sonnet to the Nile

Sonnet to a Lady seen for a few moments at Vauxhall

Sonnet ‘Blue! ‘Tis the life of heaven’

Sonnet to John Hamilton Reynolds

What the Thrush said

Sonnet—The Human Seasons

Extracts from an Opera

Daisy’s Song

Folly’s Song

‘Oh, I am frighten’d with most hateful thoughts!’

Song ‘The stranger lighted from his steed’

‘Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!’

Faery Song ‘Shed no tear—O shed no tear!’

Faery Song ‘Ah! woe is me! poor silver-wing!’

Sonnet to Homer

Song ‘Spirit here that reignest!’

Teignmouth: ‘Some Doggerel’, sent in a Letter to B.R. Haydon

The Devon Maid: Stanzas sent in a Letter to B.R. Haydon

Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds

Dawlish Fair

Fragment of an Ode to Maia, written on May Day, 1818

Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats

Sonnet on Visiting the Tomb of Burns

Megs Merrilies

A Song about myself

A Galloway Song

Sonnet to Ailsa Rock

Sonnet written in the Cottage where Burns was born

Lines written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns’s Country

The Gadfly

Sonnet on hearing the Bag-pipe and seeing ‘The Stranger’ played at Inverary

Staffa

Sonnet written upon the Top of Ben Nevis

Ben Nevis: a Dialogue

Translation from a Sonnet of Ronsard

A Prophecy: To George Keats in America

Stanzas ‘In a drear-nighted December’

Spensarian Stanza written at the Close of Canto II, Book V, of ‘The Faerie Queene’

The Eve of Saint Mark

Ode to Fanny

Sonnet to Sleep

Song ‘Hush, hush! tread softly!’

Song ‘I had a dove’

Ode on Indolence

Sonnet ‘Why did I laugh to-night?’

Sonnet ‘A Dream, after reading Dante’s Episode of Paolo and Francesca’

An Extempore from a Letter to George Keats and his Wife

Spensarian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown

Two or Three: from a Letter to his Sister

La Belle Dame sans Merci

Song of Four Faeries

Two Sonnets on Fame

Sonnet on the Sonnet

Apollo and the Graces

‘You say you love’

Poems written late in 1819

Otho the Great: a Tragedy, in Five Acts

King Stephen; a Fragment of a Tragedy

A Party of Lovers

Sonnet ‘The day is gone’

Lines to Fanny

Sonnet to Fanny

The Fall of Hyperion: a Dream

The Cap and Bells, or The Jealousies

Lines supposed to have been addressed to Fanny Brawne

Sonnet written on a blank page in Shakespeare’s Poems ‘Bright star’

Detalhes da edição

Oxford University Press, Londres, 1959

Idioma: inglês

Impressão: Great Britain

Outros detalhes gráficos: organização cronológica das obras

Nota: Ex-libris manuscrito datado de 1963 na folha de rosto