The Poems of John Keats

The Poems of John Keats is a collection of Keats' poetry, remarkable in its demonstration of Keats' development as a poet. The ones belonging to his first volume of poetry (1817)ack organization and complexity, but, in their painful honesty, hint at the genius that was even then being honed. By the time he wrote Endymion and his famous odes, in 1819, Keats had been transformed. Hisater work is more complex, theanguage is rich and sensual, the themes he explores have their root in human consciousness. Keats died when he was twenty-six, but as this collection of poetry shows, he had already written some of the most perfectyrical poetry in the Englishanguage. Through the veins of each of the poems runs a single consciousness that is preoccupied by the nature of beauty, the transience of time and the immortality of art. That consciousness could belong only to Keats.