John Keats
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[1963]
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The time: 1942. The place: The Japanese-occupied island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The Story: A stirring true account of a man who refused to be defeated. When the American forces in the Philippines surrendered in May, 1942, a mining engineer named Wendell Fertig chose to take his chances in the jungle. What happened to him during nearly three years far behind enemy lines is the amazing story that John Keats tells in They Fought Alone. For Fertig,...
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'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.'
One of the most popular of the Romantic poets, Keats' poetry is suffused with adoration for natural beauty, exploration of joy and pain, and ideas on the transience of life. This new collection combines many of Keats' well-loved poems - from 'Ode to a Nightingale' to 'Bright Star' - with his letters, often studied, analysed and admired in parallel...
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"This edition presents the texts of the 150 'poetical works' -- 148 poems of various degrees of seriousness and in various states of completion plus the collaborative play Otho the Great and the dramatic fragment King Stephen -- that can reasonably be assigned to Keats at the present time, with an apparatus recording all known substantive variants that have any claim to be considered authoritative and full textual notes that give dates of composition,...