The Sonnets of John Keats


Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk

The superb poetic skill and exquisite sensitivity of John Keats is brilliantly illustrated in this collection of meticulously selected sonnets. Keats had a passion for poetry as he had for life itself. His own life, although cut short at an early age, was one of creativity, productivity and one ornamented with immense poetic skill. His was a life that left an indelible mark of wonder on the world, an enduring legacy, a mark of greatness. Keats would write of his heroes, "How many bards gild the lapses of time!" - other poets and writers whose plight he often lamented, whose talent he always praised and whose loss, should it occur, he grieved. Keats would describe great artistry and the unsparing nature of time, "The gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs,- / A woodland rivulet,- a Poet's death." Indeed, Keats would draw his poetic inspiration not only from gifted poets but also from the magnificence of the natural world around him, "The poetry of earth is ceasing never."

Keats's sonnets resound with a search for meaning and, where none seems probable, create a compelling vision of what may be to come. In Keats's work we witness the poetry of fascination, of hope, of gratitude, of uncertainty and of entreaty, "But when I am consumed in the Fire, / Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire."

These sonnets reflect the heart of a man enraptured, albeit the heart of a man too soon to sound its final beat. But until that fateful day we behold a heart strong and determined with the perennial uncertainty foremost in mind, "O Darkness! Darkness! ever must I moan, / To question Heaven and Hell and Heart in vain."
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk (1 hr 10 min)

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Dedication of the Volume of 1817 to Leigh Hunt 1:14 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
O Chatterton! how very sad thy fate! 1:21 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Byron! how sweetly sad thy melody! 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine 1:15 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To My Brother George 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
As from the darkening gloom a silver dove 1:23 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Written on a Summer Evening 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To G. A. W. 1:10 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To -- 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To a Friend Who Sent Me some Roses 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve 1:24 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To a Young Lady who Sent Me a Laurel Crown 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Written on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison 1:24 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To Kosciusko 1:17 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
How many bards gild the lapses of time! 1:17 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Keen fitful gusts are whispering here and there 1:15 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour 1:16 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Happy is England! I could be content 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To My Brothers 1:25 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On the Grasshopper and Cricket 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Addressed to Haydon 1:13 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Addressed to the Same 1:13 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
After dark vapours have oppress'd our plains 1:24 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time 1:11 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To Haydon (With the Foregoing) 1:12 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
When I have fears that I may cease to be 1:09 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On Leigh Hunt's Poem, the "Story of Rimini" 1:13 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's Tale of "The Flowre and the Le… 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On a Picture of Leander 1:15 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On the Sea 1:21 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To the Nile 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On Visiting the Tomb of Burns 1:26 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Written in Burns' Cottage 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To Ailsa Rock 1:26 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Ben Nevis 1:11 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To one who has been long in city pent 1:11 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Human Seasons 1:11 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Written before Re-reading King Lear 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
From Ronsard, Fragment of a Sonnet 1:10 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Answer to a Sonnet by J. H. Reynolds 1:31 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To Homer 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To John Hamilton Reynolds 1:11 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To a Lady Seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall 1:12 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To Sleep 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On Fame 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On Fame 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell 1:31 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
A Dream, after Reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and Francesca 1:30 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! 1:33 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To Fanny 1:26 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
His Last Sonnet 1:24 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk