A review by katheryn
Selected Poetry by John Keats

5.0

Keats has been on my to-read list ever since I studied some of his poems during my MA. It was his use of language which first struck me (in particular the image, from Ode to Melancholy, of "him whose strenuous tongue / Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine"), and I couldn't help but read several of the poems in this edition aloud. This edition isn't particularly up-to-date, and the notes are purely informative, but it serves its purpose well as far as the poems themselves go. There is a nice variety, and I delighted in discovering and savouring them.