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'Bright Star': the compete poems and selected letters
โ Scribed by John Keats
- Publisher
- Random House;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 263 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0099529653
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPIONJohn Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most moving love poetry ever written.
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