John Keats

by Keats, John

• ISBN13: 9780674154315
• ISBN10: 0674154312
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1982-08-01
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

Here is the first reliable edition of Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students. Upon its publication in 1978, Stillinger's The Poems of John Keats won exceptionally high praise: "The definitive Keats," proclaimed The New Republic--"An authoritative edition embodying the readings the poet himself most probably intended, prepared by the leading scholar in Keats textual studies." Now this scholarship is at last available in a graceful, clear format designed to introduce students and general readers to the "real" Keats. In place of the textual apparatus that was essential to scholars, Stillinger here provides helpful explanatory notes. These notes give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Chronology	xxix
POEMS
Imitation of Spenser	1	(1)
On Peace	2	(1)
Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles's Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing	2	(1)
Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay	3	(1)
Fill for me a brimming bowl	4	(1)
As from the darkening gloom a silver dove	4	(1)
To Lord Byron	5	(1)
Oh Chatterton! how very sad thy fate	5	(1)
Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison	6	(1)
To Hope	6	(2)
Ode to Apollo	8	(1)
To Some Ladies	9	(1)
On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies	10	(1)
O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown	11	(1)
Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain	12	(1)
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell	13	(1)
To George Felton Mathew	14	(2)
Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs	16	(1)
Hadst thou liv'd in days of old	17	(1)
I am as brisk	18	(1)
Give me women, wine, and snuff	18	(1)
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem	19	(1)
Calidore: A Fragment	20	(4)
To one who has been long in city pent	24	(1)
Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve	25	(1)
To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses	25	(1)
Happy is England! I could be content	26	(1)
To My Brother George (sonnet)	26	(1)
To My Brother George (epistle)	27	(3)
To Charles Cowden Clarke	30	(3)
How many bards gild the lapses of time	33	(1)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	34	(1)
Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there	34	(1)
On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour	35	(1)
To My Brothers	35	(1)
Addressed to Haydon	35	(1)
Addressed to the Same	36	(1)
To G. A. W.	36	(1)
To Kosciusko	37	(1)
Sleep and Poetry	37	(10)
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill	47	(6)
Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition	53	(1)
On the Grasshopper and Cricket	54	(1)
After dark vapours have oppressed our plains	54	(1)
To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown	55	(1)
On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt	55	(1)
To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown'd	55	(1)
God of the golden bow	56	(1)
This pleasant tale is like a little copse	57	(1)
To Leigh Hunt, Esq.	57	(1)
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	58	(1)
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles	58	(1)
On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me	58	(1)
On The Story of Rimini	59	(1)
On the Sea	59	(1)
Unfelt, unheard, unseen	60	(1)
Hither, hither, love	60	(1)
You say you love; but with a voice	61	(1)
Before he went to live with owls and bats	62	(1)
The Gothic looks solemn	62	(1)
O grant that like to Peter I	63	(1)
Think not of it, sweet one, so	63	(1)
Endymion: A Poetic Romance	64	(99)
In drear nighted December	163	(1)
Apollo to the Graces	163	(1)
To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat	164	(1)
Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair	164	(1)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again	165	(1)
When I have fears that I may cease to be	166	(1)
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern	166	(1)
O blush not so! O blush not so	167	(1)
Hence burgundy, charet, and port	168	(1)
God of the meridian	168	(1)
Robin Hood	169	(2)
Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow	171	(1)
Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb	172	(1)
To the Nile	172	(1)
Spenser, a Jealous honorer of thine	172	(1)
Blue!---'Tis the life of heaven---the domain	173	(1)
O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind	173	(1)
Extracts from an Opera	174	(2)
Four seasons fill the measure of the year	176	(1)
For there's Bishop's Teign	177	(1)
Where be ye going, you Devon maid	178	(1)
Over the hill and over the dale	179	(1)
Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed	179	(3)
To J. R.	182	(2)
Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil	184	(15)
Mother of Hermes! and still youthful Maia	199	(1)
To Homer	199	(1)
Give me your patience, sister, while I frame	199	(1)
Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes	200	(1)
On Visiting the Tomb of Burns	200	(1)
Old Meg she was a gipsey	201	(1)
There was a naughty boy	202	(3)
Ah! ken ye what I met the day	205	(1)
To Ailsa Rock	206	(1)
This mortal body of a thousand days	206	(1)
All gentle folks who owe a grudge	207	(1)
Of late two dainties were before me plac'd	208	(1)
There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain	209	(1)
Not Aladdin magian	210	(2)
Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud	212	(1)
Upon my life, Sir Nevis, I am piqu'd	212	(3)
On Some Skulls in Beauley Abbey, near Inverness	215	(3)
Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies	218	(1)
Fragment of Castle-builder	218	(2)
And what is Love?---It is a doll dress'd up	220	(1)
'Tis the ``witching time of night''	221	(1)
Where's the Poet? Show him! show him	222	(1)
Fancy	223	(2)
Bards of passion and of mirth	225	(1)
Spirit here that reignest	226	(1)
I had a dove, and the sweet dove died	227	(1)
Hush, hush, tread softly, hush, hush, my dear	227	(1)
Ah! woe is me! poor Silver-wing	228	(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes	229	(11)
The Eve of St. Mark	240	(3)
Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell	243	(1)
When they were come unto the Faery's court	243	(2)
As Hermes once took to his feathers light	245	(1)
Character of C. B.	246	(1)
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art	247	(1)
Hyperion: A Fragment	248	(22)
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad	270	(1)
Song of Four Fairies: Fire, Air, Earth, and Water	271	(4)
Sonnet to Sleep	275	(1)
Ode to Psyche	275	(2)
On Fame (``Fame, like a wayward girl'')	277	(1)
On Fame (``How fever'd is the man'')	278	(1)
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd	278	(1)
Two or three posies	278	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	279	(3)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	282	(1)
Ode on Melancholy	283	(1)
Ode on Indolence	284	(2)
Shed no tear---O shed no tear	286	(1)
Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts	287	(55)
Lamia	342	(17)
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes	359	(1)
To Autumn	360	(1)
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream	361	(13)
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	374	(1)
I cry your mercy---pity---love!---aye, love	374	(1)
What can I do to drive away	374	(2)
To Fanny	376	(2)
King Stephen: A Fragment of a Tragedy	378	(6)
This living hand, now warm and capable	384	(1)
The Jealousies: A Faery Tale, by Lucy Vaughan Lloyd of China Walk, Lambeth	384	(24)
In after time a sage of mickle lore	408	(3)
Abbreviations	411	(2)
Selected Bibliography	413	(4)
Commentary	417	(70)
Appendix: The Contents of 1817 and 1820	487	(2)
Index of Titles and First Lines	489