Selected Poems: Collins Classics

John Keats was born in October 1795. In October 1816 he met Leigh Hunt, whose Examiner had already published Keats’s first poem. Only seven months later Poems (1817) appeared. The extraordinary speed with which Keats matured is evident from his letters. In 1818 he had worked on the powerful epic fragment Hyperion, and in 1819 he wrote ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, the major odes, Lamia, and the deeply exploratory Fall of Hyperion. Keats was already unwell when preparing the 1820 volume for the press; by the time it appeared in July he was desperately ill. He died in Rome in 1821.


Edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard.

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Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. This selection of Keats' poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earliest known poem "Imitation of Spenser"; and poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 - including "Lamia", "Isabella", "Hyperion" and "La Belle Dame sans Merci".

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