Poems of Byron, Keats and Shelley (1967)

Poems of Byron, Keats and Shelley
Selected and Edited by Elliott Coleman
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Copyright: 1967

No poets in English are better known by name than Byron, Shelley, and Keats. The works of few, if any, are more familiar to modern readers. Yet because of the more astonishing volume of work they produced in their tragically short lives, much of their best poetry is not easily available, and never, until now, has it been published in one book.

Edited by the distinguished poet, critic, and teacher Elliott Coleman of Johns Hopkins University, this new edition brings together the best and most important verse of the three poets for the leisure reader as well as the student.

Byron's masterpiece, Don Juan, is presented in very generous excerpts, as are Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and several of Byron's long dramatic poems. The most memorable of his many short lyric poems, such as She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, The Destruction of Sennacherib, We'll Go No More A Roving are included.

All of Keats's finest poems -- Ode on a Grecian Urn, To a Nightingale, The Eve of St. Agnes, The Eve of St. Mark, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Sleep and Poetry, the great sonnets -- are here in their entirety, with extensive selections from Endymion and other longer works.

Shelley's long narrative and dramatic poems -- Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound, and others -- are excerpted, while a large number of his shorter poems, including Ode to Liberty, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, When the Lamp is Shattered, and his fine Sonnet to Byron, are given unabridged.

As Professor Coleman observes in his Introduction, "Byron, Keats, and Shelley were born mature and so could die young and leave behind, in the cases of Byron and Shelley a vast amount of poetry, in the case of Keats a wealth of it. All were in the vanguard of thinking for their own day, and all remain surprisingly germane today. Though they championed different causes and though their short lives too varying directions, their ideals interacted, bringing a freshness of vision very nearly unsurpassed in English poetry. Their names invariably come to our minds as literary triumvirate, standing for youthful vigor and lyric beauty, and for depth and maturity at an early age."

Professor Coleman also notes, "Suffering entered these hearts, and suffering has a way of making some people do more than they otherwise might have done." Their lives were themselves poems, full of romance and pathos, as the biographical sketches accompanying each section attest.

Condition: Used. Hardcover. Dust cover is discolored and shows a bit of wear and shelf wear. Pages are tanning from age. Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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