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A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poets extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary. John Keatss career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than four years, cut short by his death early in 1821 at age twenty-five. Yet in this time, he produced a remarkableand remarkably wide-rangingbody of work that has secured his place as one of the most influential poets in the British literary tradition. Celebrated Keats scholar Susan J. Wolfson presents seventy-eight selections from his work, each accompanied by a commentary on its form, style, meanings, and relevant contexts. In this edition, readers will rediscover a virtuoso poet, by turns lively, experimental, self-ironizing, outrageous, and philosophical. Wolfson includes such well-known favorites as Read more