John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he produced some of the most famous poems in world literature. Less erudite and philosophical than Shelley and not so technically versatile as Byron, he displayed a sure poetic instinct and an amazing ability to appeal powerfully to the senses and to the emotions by the brilliance of his diction. Thus his poetry is noted more for exquisite feeling than for thought, but in his particular sphere he was unmatched. His influence upon later poets has been immense. (Introduction by Leonard Wilson)
Latest episodes of the podcast John Keats: Selected Poems by John Keats
- 01 - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- 02 - Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell
- 03 - Meg Merrilies
- 04 - The Eve of St. Agnes
- 05 - The Day Is Gone, And All Its Sweets Are Gone
- 06 - Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid?
- 07 - After Dark Vapours Have Oppressed Our Plains
- 08 - Ode on a Grecian Urn
- 09 - O Solitude! If I Must with Thee Dwell
- 10 - Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whisp'ring Here and There
- 11 - Ode (Bards of Passion and of Mirth)
- 12 - When I Have Fears
- 13 - Stanzas (In a drear-nighted December)
- 14 - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
- 15 - Isabella: or The Pot of Basil
- 16 - Happy Is England
- 17 - To Fanny
- 18 - To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
- 19 - Ode on Melancholy
- 20 - On Fame, I and II
- 21 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket
- 22 - To Autumn
- 23 - Fill for Me a Brimming Bowl
- 24 - How Many Bards Gild the Lapses of Time!
- 25 - Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
- 26 - To Hope
- 27 - On the Sonnet
- 28 - Ode to a Nightingale
- 29 - Lamia, Part I
- 30 - Lamia, Part II
- 31 - To Byron
- 32 - A Song About Myself