John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics

John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature. During the 19th century, critics deemed them unworthy of attention, distractions from his poetic works. During the 20th century they became almost as admired and studied as his poetry, and are highly regarded within the canon of English literary correspondence. T. S. Eliot described them as "certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet." Keats spent a great deal of time considering poetry itself, its constructs and impacts, displaying a deep interest unusual amongst his milieu who were more easily distracted by metaphysics or politics, fashions or science. Table of Contents: ΓÇó Biographies: ΓÇó Life of John Keats by Sidney Colvin ΓÇó Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Ketas by Richard Monckton Milnes ΓÇó Complete Letters: ΓÇó To Messrs, Taylor and Hessey ΓÇó To Jane Reynolds ΓÇó To Charles Wentworth Dilke ΓÇó To Joseph Severn ΓÇó To John Taylor ΓÇó To Benjamin Robert Haydon ΓÇó To Benjamin Bailey ΓÇó To John Hamilton Reynolds ΓÇó To George and Thomas Keats ΓÇó To Fanny Keats ΓÇó To James Rice ΓÇó To Leigh Hunt ΓÇó To Richard Woodhouse ΓÇó To Thomas Keats ΓÇó To James Elmes ΓÇó To Mrs. Brawne ΓÇó To Charles Cowden Clarke ΓÇó To George and Georgiana Keats ΓÇó To Percy Bysshe Shelley ΓÇó To Mrs. Reynolds ΓÇó To Georgiana Keats ΓÇó To Mariane and Jane Reynolds ΓÇó To Mrs. Wylie ΓÇó To Charles Brown...