Selected Letters of Keats

Author: John Keats
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Letters are a form of communication between the writer and the recipient. Some things are only understood by those involved, let alone the events discussed in these letters, which date back over two hundred years. Therefore, the difficulty of translation is self-evident. In the translation, I have made appropriate omissions for passages that are obscure or of little significance to readers, to avoid compromising the accuracy of the translation and to maintain the readers' interest in the poet's correspondence. Keats was a great Romantic lyric poet of 19th-century England. A considerable number of his poems are included in his letters, written spontaneously at the time of writing. These poems are not translated one by one due to the constraints of the book's format and length. Fortunately, these poems, along with Keats' other works, have already been published with existing translations. Interested readers may find them for further reading. Additionally, the few poems retained in this book are selected from those that have already been translated. For those that have been translated before, the best available versions are used, and no new translation is undertaken, as it is unlikely to surpass the existing ones.