Selected Poem Author:John Keats "The early death of the poet Keats concluded a life that was perhaps summed up in his own lines: "Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed,/But Death intenser-Death is Life's high meed." His short life notwithstanding, Keats' mastery of the rich, mellifluous line, of the honeyed rhythms of nature, of the ode form, and of the Greek sources of in... more »spiration left an indelible mark on the poetry of nineteenth-century England....
This selection, which contains and introduction, chronology, and bibliography, is recommended in schools and colleges."
Edited by George H. Ford, University of Rochester.« less