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Introduction
A Note on the Text
THE TEXTS OF KEATS'S POETRY AND PROSE
Before Poems (1817):
On Peace
Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles' Restoration, on Hearing Bells Ringing
[Fill for me a brimming bowl
Sonnet [As from the darkening gloom a silver dove]
Sonnet to Lord Byron
Sonnet to Chatterton
Ode to Apollo
[Give me women, wine and snuff]
Sonnet [Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve]
Letter to C.C. Clarke, October 9, 1816
George Felton Mathew: "To a Poetical Friend"
Leigh Hunt: "Young Poets"
Sonnet. Written in disgust on vulgar superstition
Sonnet [After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains]
Between Poems (1817) and Endymion (1818):
To a Young Lady Who Sent me a Laurel Crown
On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt
To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crowned
Ode to Apollo [God of the golden bow]
Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's Tale of "The Floure and the Lefe" [This Pleasant Tale is like a little Copse]
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
J. H. Reynolds: Champion Review of Poems
On a Picture of Leander [On a Leander which Miss Reynolds my kind friend gave me]
On Leigh Hunt's Poem, The "Story of Rimini"
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, April 17-18, 1817
Sonnet on the Sea
Lines [Unfelt, unheard, unseen]
[You say you love, but with a voice]
Letter to Leigh Hunt, May 10, 1817
Letter to B .R. Haydon, May 10-11, 1817
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, September 21, 1817
Josiah Conder: From Review of Poems
Unsigned: Review in Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, October 1817
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, October 8, 1817
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 3, 1817
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 22, 1817
[Before he went to feed with owls and bats]
Stanzas [In drear-nighted December]
Mr. Kean
Letter to George and Tom Keats, December 21(?), 27, 1817
Letter to George and Tom Keats, January 5, 1818
Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair
Sonnet. On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
To Benjamin Bailey, January 23, 1818
Letter to George and Tom Keats, January 23-24, 1818
[When I have fears that I may cease to be]
Song. [O blush not so! O blush not so]
[Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port]
[God of the Meridian]
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 3, 1818
Fragment [Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow]
Sonnet [Life's sea hath been five times at its slow ebb]
Sonnet to the Nile
[Spenser, a jealous honorer of thine]
Answer to a Sonnet …[Blue!—'Tis the life of heaven,—the domain]
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 19, 1818
[O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind]
Letter to John Taylor, February 27, 1818
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, March 13, 1818
The Human Seasons [Four seasons fill the measure of the year]
[Where be ye going, you Devon maid]
[Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed]
Letter to B. R. Haydon, April 8, 1818
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, April 9, 1818
To J. R.
Letter to John Taylor, April 24, 1818
Endymion (1818)
Between Endymion (1818) and Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)
[Mother of Hermes! And still youful Maia!]
To Homer
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, Mary 3, 1818
Unsigned Review (by Reynolds?) of Endymion
From Unsigned Review, British Critic
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, June 10, 1818
Letter to Tom Keats, June 25-27, 1818
[Give me your patience, sister, while I frame]
On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
Meg Merrilies. A Ballad, written for the amusement of his young sister [Old Meg she was a gipsey]
Letter to Tom Keats, July 3, 5, 7, 9 1818
Sonnet to Ailsa Rock
Sonnet [This mortal body of a thousand days]
The Gadfly [All gentle folks who owe a grudge]
[Of late two dainties were before me placed]
Lines Written in the Scotch Highlands [There is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain]
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, July 18, 22, 1818
[Not Aladdin magian]
Sonnet, Written on the Summit of Ben Nevis [Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud]
Stanzas on Some Skulls in Beauley Abbey, Inverness
"Z": Review of Endymion
Unsigned review (John Wilson Croker) in Quarterly Review of Endymion
[Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies]
Letter to C. W. Dilke, September 20-21, 1818
Modern Love [And what is love? It is a doll dress'd up]
"J. S.": Letter responding to The Quarterly Review's attack on Keats
From Unsigned Review (by Reynolds) of Endymion
Letter to J. A. Hessey, October 8, 1818
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, October 14, 16, 21, 24, 31, 1818
Letter to Richard Woodhouse, October 27, 1818
Fragment [Where's the Poet? Show him! Show him!]
Song [I had a dove and the sweet dove died]
Song [Hush, hush, tread softly! Hush, hush, my dear]
From Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, December 16-18, 22, ?29, 31, January 2-4, 1819
The Eve of Saint Mark
From Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, February 14, 19, March 3?, 12, 13, 17, 19, April 30, May 3, 1819
Letter to B. R. Haydon, March 8, 1819
[Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell]
Ode on Indolence
A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode of Paulo and Francesca
[Bright star! would I were steadfast as though art!]
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Song of the Four Fairies
Sonnet.—To Sleep
On Fame [Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy]
On Fame [How fever'd is the main, who cannot look]
[If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd]
Letter to Mary-Ann Jeffrey, June 9, 1819
Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 1, 1819
Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 8, 1819
Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 15?, 1819
Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 25, 1819
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, August 14, 1819
Richard Woodhouse: From letter to John Taylor, September 19-20, 1819
[Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes]
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, September 21, 1819
From Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, September 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 1819
Letter to Fanny Brawne, October 13, 1819
Letter to John Taylor, November 17, 1819
Sonnet [The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone]
TO----------. [What can I do to drive away]
To Fanny
[This living hand, now warm and capable]
The Cap and Bells; or, The Jealousies, A Faery Tale. Unfinished. [The Jealousies: A Faery Tale, by Lucy Vaughan Lloyd of China Walk, Lambeth]
[In after time, a sage of mickle lore]
Letter to Fanny Brawne, February ?, 1820
Letter to Fanny Brawne, February 27 (?), 1820
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 28, 1820
Letter to Fanny Brawne, March ?, 1820
Letter to Fanny Brawne, May ?, 1820
Letter to Fanny Brawne, June ?, 1820
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems (1820)
Last Writings
Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 5?, 1820
Unsigned review of Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems, in The New Times
Percey Bysshe Shelley: Letter to Keats, July 27, 1820
Letter to Fanny Brawne, August ? 1820
From 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
From Unsigned 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
CRITICISM
Paul de Man * From "The Negative Path"
Marjorie Levinson * from Keats's Life of Allegory: The Origins of Style
Grant F. Scott: * "Keats in His Letters"
Margaret Homans * from Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats
Nicholas Roe * from 'Lisping Sedition: Poems,Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent"
Stuart Sperry * The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
Neil Fraistat * from "Lamia Progressing: Keats's 1820 Volume"
Jack Stillinger * from "The Hoodwinking of Madeline: Skepticism in The Eve of St. Agnes"
Jeffrey N. Cox * from "Cockney Classicism: History with Footnotes"
James Chandler * from "An '1819 Temper': Keats and the History of Psyche"
Alan Bewell * from Romanticism and Colonial Disease
Andrew Bennett: from"The 'Hyperion' Poems"
John Keats: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography

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