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What are readers saying about Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library)?
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-04 09:55:41.
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I read in my teens. I love it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-06-28 05:42:12.
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Blush not so, oh blush not so!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-10 12:14:44.
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Everyone should read this. Enough said
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-14 12:15:42.
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Grecian Urn and Psyche deserve only three words from me: 1) Excellent 2) Excellent 3) Excellent The purity of feeling and mind and heart is well given in black and white by the ever greatest poet; John Keats. I Like him because he made me think what love really is.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-05-01 04:32:25.
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so pity that he didnt live long,,his poems are full of peace and beauty,, I like his positive beautiful mind
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-06-26 09:12:00.
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love him too!
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-17 12:43:33.
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Well I didn't read them ALL
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-18 01:46:17.
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Greatest lyrical English poet.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-02 03:17:53.
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I've never read anything like this, ever. For me this is truly poetry. The exquisite content, the rhythm, the inner movement - it's unbelievable that anyone could write like this. Take the time to read this. It's more accessible than you think.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-14 01:51:29.
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Too standard for me.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-27 05:27:40.
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just nice dont need description
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-02 11:21:00.
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Superb
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-03-10 10:24:23.
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A dive into the romantic ocean
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Meg posted a review at 2009-09-30 10:54:10.
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Yes, Keats, you are among the English Poets, and my favorite of the Regency Romantics. Dead at 25, this poet's voluptuous verse makes me believe all the world is dreamy and heartbreakingly beautiful. I turn to Keats when I need to restore my rose-colored glasses, escaping into his poems like slipping into a hot bath, with candlelight, a delectable treat to nibble, and a lover nearby. Delicious!
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-15 08:59:20.
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God...the reason I fell in love with poetry. I think my life changed when we as a class read "Lamia"...the story and the themes, even my teacher was carried away with passion at the words and the power of the message behind them (have you ever seen your teacher screaming the lines and bounding up the class!?). When I first heard it I was really falling for this girl I was friends with, but I just couldn't find myself with the nerve to say so. And then we were read this poem, and the way my teacher was saying "So you see, nothing lasts. Unlike Hermes and the Nymph he loves, we are not immortal. Good things, by their nature cannot last so you must seize the day". In this poem Keats deals with the tale of a snake-creature, Lamia, who loves a man called Lycuis. She is turned into a woman by Hermes and they run off together into a mansion. He insists on being married, but she doesn't want other people coming into there little world. They are happy. But he insists and they marry. At the wedding his Tutor, Apollonius, sees her, he, as a man of logic, reason and fact, sees though her illusion and denounces her as a snake. In front of Lycuis his "sophists eye, like a sharp spear, went though her utterly" and in this fantastic scene where he withers her away under the light of reason you get some of Keat's greatest lines "Philosophy will clip and angels wings" and "Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy?" The message is simple. Sometimes you really need to just trust your gut, if you try and think everything though you will end up ruining what you have. Lycus and Lamia were HAPPY, in their fantasy world, until logic showed they were living just one big dream. The poem asks "is it better to live in a happy dream, or a useful life?" Sometimes we all need to stop thinking, lay back and trust our first feelings. Oh and yeah, I did finally ask her out...been 3 years now. *grins*
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-21 03:22:01.
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I love Keats! Died at 24 and wrote some of the most moving poems I've ever read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-10 10:19:07.
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I can't find the actual edition of Keats that I own, so this about his poetry in general. Keats is great. As a renaissance scholar I'm almost scared to say this, but there is a large contigent out there (both now and right after Keats's lifetime) that thinks he might have passed Shakespeare if he had lived a full life. As a writer, it's humbling once you have that birthday that makes you older than Keats, to think that he had already published this body of work. Don't be fulled by the beautiful lyricism of his verses, there's a lot hidden in Keats.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-30 11:00:07.
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'WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dream of the soft lookYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false or true,But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,And loved the sorrows of your changing face;And bending down beside the glowing bars,Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fledAnd paced upon the mountains overheadAnd hid his face amid a crowd of stars.'
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-04 11:22:18.
(Language: English)
Love Keats poetry!!! Can't go wrong with owning his complete works!!!
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-12-02 02:31:35.
(Language: English)
John Keats is one of my favorite poets! I like Ode on Melancholy. "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-05-02 12:42:45.
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on my shelf
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-09 02:49:49.
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true romantic poetry of the time. I've also read the letters by Keats and find equally moving.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-26 03:41:00.
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Posthumous fame has to be one of the saddest things for an artist, especially for John Keats, whose situation never really got any happier. The poor lad died at the age of 29 after struggling with tuberculosis for years. As if this were not bad enough, critics of his time were very harsh on him... they disliked him because he did not derive from a wealthy family, and claimed that an farm boy like John Keats cannot possibly write such poetry, and that he probably plagiarized it. Were not the same claims made about William Shakespeare?Anyway... John Keats' poetry was much more morbid than William Wordsworth. Keats' poetry was nevertheless beautiful and focused on the power of imagination, whereas Wordsworth's poetry emphasized more on the deification of nature and the innocence of childhood. Back in my Polyanna days I admired William Wordsworth more than any of the Romantics. That happiness and sense of bliss that permeates his poetry greatly appealed to me. My admiration for him reached its peak when I was about 19, then slowly it waned. Perhaps it is partly due to cynicism, and partly to have read other more critical writers like William Blake... but suddenly John Keats is the guy. Percy Bysse Shelley is too, but I won't talk about him today for the sake of this discussion. How can anyone not be touched with poems like, "When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be," "Ode To Melancholy," "Ode To A Nightingale," or "Ode To A Grecian Urn?" How can any poetic soul not be but gay when relishing in the allusions to Greek mythology that are typical of Keats or reflect melancholically on the brevity of all that is beautiful? Such characteristics are typical of Romantic Poetry, and in my opinion, John Keats is the best one of the Romantics when it comes to conveying such things.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-29 06:12:25.
(Language: English)
Picked it up the other night from the shelf after watching the Bright Star and was reminded how much I always liked the Ode to Autumn
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