{"product_id":"selected-letters-9780141192796","title":"Selected Letters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e''I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart''s affections, and the truth of imagination''\u003c\/i\u003e - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a period of great letter-writing, Keats''s letters are outstanding. They begin in summer 1816, as he approached his twenty-first birthday, and were written over the next four years until his early death. Viewed together, they give the fullest and most poignant record we have of Keats''s ambitions and hopes as a poet, his life as a literary man about town, his close relationship with his brothers and young sister, and, later, his passionate, jealous and frustrated love for Fanny Brawne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeats enclosed many of his poems with his letters, and read together, they offer an incomparable insight into his creative process and development as a poet. This major new edition edited by Professor John Barnard includes an introduction and notes, as well as a map of Keats''s Scottish walking tour and reproductions of his letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Keats was born in October 1795. His \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1817, while \u003ci\u003eEndymion\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1818, both to mixed reviews. In 1819 he wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Eve of St Agnes\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e La Belle Dame sans Merci\u003c\/i\u003e, the major odes, \u003ci\u003eLamia\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eFall of Hyperion\u003c\/i\u003e. Keats was already unwell when preparing his 1820 volume for the press; by the time it appeared in July he was desperately ill. He died in Rome in 1821, in a rented apartment next to the Spanish Steps, at the age of twenty-five.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Barnard is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds and has edited \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e of Keats for Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036426436951,"sku":"9780141192796","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141192796.jpg?v=1750932041","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/selected-letters-9780141192796","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}