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Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats

by John Keats

Format:  CD Audiobook
Published:  December 2006
Category:  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publisher:  Naxos Audio Books
Narrator:  Samuel West

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Despite various recorded readings of Keats's poems, this is the first time an audiobook has been structured around his letters. Surrounded by brief but apt commentary, these writings reveal his closeness with his siblings. After nursing a brother who died of consumption, Keats became haunted by the prospect of his own early death, a concern that infiltrates many of the letters. The earlier ones also reveal his discomfort around women and his determination never to marry. This might seem strange for one of the greatest Romantic poets, but another look at the poems, which are read by Samuel West and Matthew Marsh, proves his most loving entreaties are abstractions. 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' as he says in 'Ode on a Grecian Urn,' which was written during the early period of his infatuation with Fanny Brawne, the one woman he wishes to love in the flesh. Prohibited from doing so, he wrote works that alternately idolize and criticize. This is a rare glimpse of the poet presented in a nonscholarly format. Recommended wherever there is interest in Keats or Romantic poetry.

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