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What if beauty feels most alive when you know it cannot last?
In Keats: Poems Published in 1820, John Keats brings love, magic and danger close enough to touch. Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St. Agnes turn old stories into richly coloured narrative poems. Taste, sound and touch fill their worlds, while beauty and loss remain closely bound.
The collection moves from these three tales to odes, playful shorter poems and Hyperion: A Fragment, an unfinished epic about fallen gods. In Ode to Psyche, the poet offers a goddess a temple within his mind. Fancy and Bards of Passion and of Mirth bring quicker rhythms and praise the imagination.
What you’ll discover
- Love close to danger Enter three story poems where rich sensations draw you into worlds of love and magic.
- A temple in thought Follow Ode to Psyche as the poet makes room for a goddess within his imagination.
- The weight of fallen gods Hear the slow, weighty blank verse of Hyperion, an unfinished epic about the fall of gods.
- Imagination at play Find a lighter mood in Fancy and poems that celebrate poets living on in song.
- Beauty beside loss Read aloud and hear how the poems hold fleeting beauty through sound, colour and touch.
Who will love it
For readers who love rich description, myth and mood, and anyone who wants a guide before opening Romantic poetry. These poems welcome lovers of beauty and melancholy, tales of love and danger, and the music of verse read aloud.
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- A last book written under a shadow
- Three tales of love, magic and danger
- Hyperion and the fall of the old gods
- The odes that hold a single moment
- The lighter and stranger shorter poems
- Beauty, loss and how to read aloud
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Keats: Poems Published in 1820
by John Keats · 1820
A bird, a vase and an autumn field bring joy and sorrow into focus as Keats explores beauty that cannot last.
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In the summer of 1820, John Keats published a volume with a long title: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems.
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A last book written under a shadow
The 1820 volume gathers work Keats wrote mostly in 1819 and early 1820. It was a remarkable stretch. In those months he wrote the odes, the long tales and the second try at an epic, all while nursing his younger brother's memory, struggling with money and watching his own health fail. His publishers, Taylor and Hessey, brought the book out in 1820.
Keats had reason to be nervous. His earlier books had been attacked by some critics, who mocked him as a member of a so-called Cockney school of poets. He knew he had grown since then. The new book shows a poet who has gone from loose, sweet flowing verse to something tighter, darker and more exact.
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What is in Keats's 1820 volume of poems?
It contains Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, the unfinished Hyperion, and a group of shorter poems that includes Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche, Ode on Melancholy and To Autumn.
When was Keats's last book published and why does it matter?
It appeared in 1820, a year before Keats died. It was his third and last book, and it holds the odes and long poems on which most of his later reputation rests.
What is Lamia about?
Lamia is a long poem in couplets, based on a story in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. A woman who is secretly a serpent wins a young man of Corinth, while a philosopher watches them with suspicion.
The author
John Keats
1795–1821 · English Romantic poet
John Keats was an English Romantic poet who, before his death at twenty-five, produced some of the most celebrated verse in the language. Lamia, his narrative poem of a serpent transformed into a beautiful woman, showcases his lush imagery and fascination with myth.
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