num_pages: 480
description: Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development. According to T. S. Eliot, Keats's letters are "the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet." They represent one of the most sustained reflections on the poet's art we have fromany of the major English poets. Yet quite apart from the light they throw on the poetry, they are great works of literature in their own right. Written with gusto and occasionally painful candor, they show a powerful intelligence struggling to come to terms with its own mortality. Sometimesbitterly jealous in love and socially and financially insecure, at others playful and confident of his own greatness, Keats interweaves his personal plight with the history of a Britain emerging from the long years of the Napoleonic Wars into a world of political unrest, profound social change, andcommercial expansion.
language: English
title: Selected Letters
titlecomplete: Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
genres: Classics, British Literature, Romanticism, Biography, Literature, Unfinished, 19th Century, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 202
publisher: Oxford University Press