Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Vintage Classics)

'Osoftembalmerofthestillmidnight,/Shutting,withcarefulfingersandbenign,/Ourgloom-pleas'deyes,embower'dfromthelight,/Enshadedinforgetfulnessdivine'JohnKeats,'OdetoSleep'JohnKeatsdiedinpenuryandrelativeobscurityin1821,agedonly26.HeisnowseenasoneofthegreatestEnglishpoetsandageniusoftheRomanticage.Thiscollection,whichcontainsallhismostmemorableworksandaselectionofhisletters,isafeastforthesenses,displayingKeats'giftforgorgeousimageryandsensuouslanguage,hispassionatedevotiontobeauty,aswellassomeofthemostmovinglovepoetryeverwritten.