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KEATS'S POETRY AND PROSE
AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS CRITICISM
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The Texts of Keats's Poetry and'Prose • B E F O R E POEMS ( 1 8 1 7 ) , ';.. . . < • . . / O n Peace ' : • L i n e s W r i t t e n o n 2 9 M a y , t h e A n n i v e r s a r y of C h a r l e s ' s R e s t o r a t i o n , o n H e a r i n g t h e Bells Ringing: . . •. , ., [Fill for m e a b r i m m i n g b o w l ] . . , ..•• . •. • , 1. ' . > S o n n e t [As from t h e d a r k e n i n g g l o o m a silver dove] ' . . S o n n e t . To L o r d B y r o n , •• ' '• > .• ' S o n n e t . To C h a t t e r t o n . ' • ':.'.'• .•' . . . . • , . O d e t o Apollo. :. : , >.,•,.': . , ;,, •; ; ..- ! [Give m e w o m e n , w i n e a n d snuff], : " ..•••",'•:. L.; . •S o n n e t , [ O h ! h o w I love, o n a fair s u m m e r ' s eve]. • • - . • •. _ :;• -..•" . L e t t e r t o C . C . C l a r k e , O c t o b e r 9, 1 8 1 6 .'. . . ' : ' .- G e o r g e F e l t o n M a t h e w • T o A P o e t i c a l F r i e n d ' . ' •.. .-. , ' . -. L e i g h H u n t "..Young P o e t s . , . . . . : • . '.. ••..•• "•'•' . • ' ! .- S o n n e t . W r i t t e n i n d i s g u s t of v u l g a r s u p e r s t i t i o n , , ' '< S o n n e t . [After d a r k v a p o r s h a v e o p p r e s s ' d oiir p l a i n s ] :• , . ; ,
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y-POEMS (1817) - . •• •• :.• 17 Dedication. To Leigh H u n t , Esq. , , , , • 20 Poems: [I s t o o d tip-toe u p o n a.little hill] 1 •; .. •.• • . 21 ; S p e c i m e n of a n I n d u c t i o n t o . a P o e m . •••• • •' 27 .-. ;i Calidore. A Fragment.'i' • •• .•: ;' .'• ••>' 2 8 , ;' To S o m e Ladies. . ;.'>,•.. -1 u; ; , ;•< 1 32 O n . r e c e i v i n g a c u r i o u s S h e l l , a n d a C o p y of Verses, • > from t h e s a m e L a d i e s . . . ;• , ; 33 34 To,**** [Hadstthouliv'dindays-ofold] To H o p e . ., i ,• 36 . . I m i t a t i o n of S p e n s e r . ' • ; .; , :•• ; • ; 38 [ W o m a n ! w h e n ' I b e h o l d t h e e flippant, v a i n ] • . -. . •; 39 Epistles: To G e o r g e F e l t o n M a t h e w . . - . .-, >•'• • ' 4 0 ..:-.• • To M y B r o t h e r G e o r g e . . • r . , , , . • . . ., 4 3 To C h a r l e s C o w d e n C l a r k e . . .'•••..• . • . 46 -- S o n n e t s : I. To M y Brother George. •'.,- ; 49
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****** [Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs] Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison. [How many bards gild the lapses of time] To a Friend who sent me some Roses. ToG.A. W. , [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell] To My Brothers. [Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there] [To one who has been long in city pent] On first looking into Chapman's Homer. . On leaving some Friends at an early Hour. Addressed to Haydon. Addressed to the Same. On the Grasshopper and Cricket. . . To Kosciusko. [Happy is England! I could be content]
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BETWEEN POEMS (1817) AND ENDYMJON (1818) . • 69 To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown. . •• 69 ; On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt . • 69 To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crowned 70 Ode to Apollo [God of the golden bow] > . ' > • • . 70 Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's Tale of • "The Floure and the Leafe." [This pleasant Tale is like a little Copse] 72 To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles 72 On Seeing the Elgin Marbles ' 73 John Hamilton Reynolds • Champion Review of Poems' • ' 73 On a Picture of Leander. [On a Leander which Miss Reynolds my kind friend gave me] • •'. • ' . . . . 75 On Leigh Hunt's Poem, The "Story of Rimini." 1 -.'. • ' •.•••• 76 Letter to J. H. Reynolds, April 17, 18, 1817 77 r Sonnet. On the Sea. ' • 79 Lines. [Unfelt, unheard, unseen] . ' 79 [You say you love; but with a voice] . .•; • ' . 8 0 ' Letter to Leigh Hunt, May 10,1817 ' •• • < 81 Letter to B. R. Haydon, May 10, 11, 1817 ' 83 LettertoJ. H. Reynolds, September 2 1 , 1817 86 Leigh Hunt • To the Grasshopper and the Cricket 90 Josiah Conder • Review of Poems 90 Anonymous • Review in Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany, October 1817 •; ' 95 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, October 8, 1817 • •. 98 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 3, 1817 ' • 100 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 22, 1817 ; • 102 [Before he went to feed with owls and bats] f v 104 Stanzas. [In drear-nighted December] ' • 105 Mr. Kean
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Letter to George and Tom Keats, January 5, 1818 109 Iiines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair. > • 113 Sonnet. On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again. 114 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, January 23, 1818 114 Letter to George and.Tom Keats, January 23, 24, 1818 116 [When I have fears, that I may cease to be] 118 Song. [O blush not so! O blush not so!] 119 [Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port] . 120 [God of the Meridian] 120 Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 3, 1818 . 121 Fragment. [Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow] 123 Sonnet. [Life's sea hath been five times at its slow ebb] , 124 Sonnet.—To the Nile. 124 [Spenser, a jealous hohorer of thine] 125 Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus:—[Blue!—'Tis the life of heaven,— the domain] . • ' 126 Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 19, 1818 126 • [O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind] 128 Letter to John Taylor, February 27,1818. 128 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, March 13, 1818 • •••• 129 The Human Seasons. [Four seasons fill the measure of the year] 132 [Where be ye going, you Devon maid] 132 [Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed] • 133 Letter to B. R. Haydon, April 8, 1818 . 137 Letter to J. H. Reynolds, April9, 1818 • • • 138 ,
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[Not Aladdin magian] , : . . 266 Sonnet, Written on the Summit of Ben Nevis [Read me a.lesson, Muse, and speak it loud] . , • 268 Stanzas on Some Skulls in Beauley Abbey, Inverness. •• ' 268 "Z." • Review of Endymion in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 272 John Wilson Croker • Review of Endymion in Quarterly Review . 277 [Nature withheld Cassandra in. the skies] ; : ' . 280 Letter to C. W. Dilke, September;20, 21, 1818 281 Modern Love. [And what is love?—It is a doll dress'd up] ;. . 282 "J.S." • Letter [Responding to the Quarterly Review's Attack on Keats] , • - . 283 . John Hamilton Reynolds • Review of Endymion' • . 1. 284 Letter to J. A. Hessey, October 8, 1818 "•.,.• . 286 From Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, October 1 14, 16, 2 1 , 2 4 , 31; 1 8 1 8
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To . [What can I do to drive away] .' 375 To Fanny. . • . :..'.-, 376 :. [This living hand, now warm and capable] . :. ., ,.., 378 T h e C a p and Bells; or, T h e Jealousies. A Faery Tale. Unfinished. [The Jealousies: A Faery Tale, by Lucy Vaughan Lloyd of China Walk, L a m b e t h ] ' . . ,. , . , 3 7 8 [In after time, a sage of mickle lore] i : 403 Letter to Fanny Brawne, February? 1820 ,, -....•:. 403 Letter to Fanny Brawne, February 27?, 1820 j , 403 Letter to J. H; Reynolds,.February 2 8 , 1820 . • 404 Letter to Fanny Brawne, March? 1820 . • . . 405 Letter to Fanny Brawne, May?;,l820 . ' . 406 Letter to Fanny Brawne, June? 1820 . ,• ., 407 Letter to Fanny Brawne, June? 1820 . ; • . ;. • . 408
LAMIA, ISABELLA, THE EVE OF ST.AGNES, AND OTHER , POEMS • Lamia.
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Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.i . > .' The Eve of St. Agnes. Ode to a Nightingale. ,. • . • Ode on a Grecian Urn. M ... .' ; Ode to Psyche. Fancy. . Ode. [Bards of Passion and of Mirth] Lines on the Mermaid Tavern. Robin Hood. To Autumn. Ode on Melancholy. Hyperion. A Fragment.
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LAST WRITINGS The Fall of Hyperion—A Dream Leigh Hunt [with Keats] • A Now, Descriptive of a Hot Day Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 5?, 1820 • Charles Lamb • Review of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems. . Percy Bysshe Shelley • Letter to Keats, July 27, 1820 Letter to Fanny Brawne, August? 1820 Leigh Hunt • Review of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems Letter to Leigh Hunt, August 13?, 1820 Leigh Hunt • Letter to Keats, August 13, 1820 Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, August 16, 1820 Josiah Conder • Review of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems Leigh Hunt • Farewell to Keats Letter to Charles Brown, September 30, 1820 Letter to Mrs. Brawne, October 24, 1820 Letter to Charles Brown, November 1, 2, 1820 Letter to Charles Brown, November 30, 1820
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Paul de Man • [The Negative Path] Marjorie Levinson • Keats's Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style Grant F. Scott • Keats in His Letters Margaret Homans • Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats ' Nicholas Roe • Lisping Sedition: Poems, Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent Stuart Sperry • The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds Neil Fraistat • "Lamia" Progressing: Keats's 1820 Volume Jack Stillinger • The Hoodwinking of Madeline: Skepticism in The Eve of St. Agnes • ''• Jeffrey N. Cox • Cockney Classicism: History with Footnotes James Chandler • An "1819'Temper": Keats and the History of Psyche ' Alan Bewell • "To Autumn" and the Curing of Space Andrew Bennett • The "Hyperion" Poems
John Keats: A Chronology Selected Bibliography Index
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