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Bright Star
  • Published: 1 December 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099529651
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $29.99

Bright Star

The Complete Poems and Selected Letters

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'O soft embalmer of the still midnight,/ Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,/ Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, / Enshaded in forgetfulness divine' John Keats, 'Ode to Sleep'

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPION

John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most moving love poetry ever written.
  • Published: 1 December 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099529651
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for Bright Star

Littered with sensuous descriptions of nature's beauty, Keats's odes also pose profound philosophical questions

Sunday Telegraph

Sublime

Sunday Times

In what we call natural magic, he ranks with Shakespeare...no-one else in English poetry has...his perception of loveliness

Matthew Arnold

One of the half-dozen greatest English writers

Edmund Wilson

His letters are certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet

T.S. Eliot

Astounding, contemporary-seeming brilliance and deep wisdom about writers and writing

Andrew Motion on Keats' letters