John Keats The Major Works: Including Endymion, the Odes and Selected Letters

by Keats, John; Cook, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780192840639
• ISBN10: 0192840630
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by a generous selection of Keats's letters - togive the essence of his work and thinking. In his tragically short life Keats wrote an astonishing number of superb poems; his stature as one of the foremost poets of the Romantic movement remains unassailable. This volume contains all the poetry published during his lifetime, including Endymion in its entirety, the Odes, 'Lamia', and bothversions of 'Hyperion'. The poetry is presented in chronological sequence, illustrating the staggering speed with which Keats's work matured. Further insight into his creative process is given by reproducing, in their original form, a number of poems that were published posthumously. Keats's letters are admired almost as much as his poetry and were described by T. S. Eliot as 'certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet'. They provide the best biographical detail available and shed invaluable light on Keats's poems.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	xvii
Acknowledgements	xxix
Chronology	xxxi
Note on the Text	xxxv
POETRY
Imitation of Spenser	1	(1)
Song: `Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay'	2	(1)
`Fill for me a brimming Bowl'	3	(1)
To Lord Byron	4	(1)
Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison	4	(1)
To Hope	5	(1)
Ode to Apollo	6	(2)
`Oh Chatterton! how very sad thy fate'	8	(1)
Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles's Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing	8	(1)
On receiving a curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from [some] Ladies	9	(1)
To George Felton Mathew	10	(3)
`O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell'	13	(1)
`Woman! when I behold thee flippant; vain'	13	(1)
To ******: `Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs'	14	(1)
`Give me women wine and snuff'	15	(1)
`I am as brisk'	15	(1)
`O grant that like to Peter I'	15	(1)
To ****: `Had'st thou liv'd in days of old'	16	(1)
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem	17	(2)
Calidore: A Fragment	19	(5)
`To one who has been long in city pent'	24	(1)
`Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve'	24	(1)
To My Brother George [sonnet]	25	(1)
To My Brother George [epistle]	25	(4)
To Charles Cowden Clarke	29	(3)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	32	(1)
`Keen, fitful gusts are whisp' ring here and there'	33	(1)
Sleep and Poetry	33	(11)
To My Brothers	44	(1)
Addressed to [Haydon]	44	(1)
To G.A.W.	45	(1)
To Kosciusko	45	(1)
`I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'	46	(6)
Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition	52	(1)
On the Grasshopper and Cricket	53	(1)
`God of the golden bow'	53	(1)
`After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains'	54	(1)
`This pleasant Tale is like a little Copse'	55	(1)
To Leigh Hunt,.Esq.	55	(1)
On seeing the Elgin Marbles	56	(1)
On a Leander which Miss Reynolds my kind friend gave me	56	(1)
On the Sea	57	(1)
`Unfelt, unheard, unseen'	57	(1)
`You say you love; but with a voice'	58	(1)
`Hither hither Love'	59	(1)
Endymion	60	(104)
On Oxford	164	(1)
`Think not of it, sweet one, so'	164	(1)
`In drear nighted December'	165	(1)
`Before he went to live with owls and bats'	166	(1)
To Mrs. Reynoldse's Cat	166	(1)
Lines on seeing a Lock of Milton's hair	167	(1)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again	168	(1)
`When I have fears that I may cease to be'	168	(1)
`O blush not so, O blush not so'	169	(1)
`Hence Burgundy, Claret and port'	170	(1)
`God of the Meridian'	170	(1)
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern	171	(1)
Robin Hood	172	(1)
`Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb'	173	(1)
To the Nile	174	(1)
`Spenser, a jealous Honorer of thine'	174	(1)
`Blue!---'Tis the life of Heaven---the domain'	175	(1)
`O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind'	175	(1)
Extracts from an Opera	176	(3)
The Human Seasons	179	(1)
`For there's Bishop's Teign'	179	(2)
`Where be ye going you Devon maid'	181	(1)
`Over the hill and over the dale'	181	(1)
To J. H. Reynolds Esq.	182	(3)
Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil	185	(16)
`Mother of Hermes! and still youthful Maia!'	201	(1)
`Give me your patience Sister while I frame'	202	(1)
`Sweet sweet is the greeting of eyes'	202	(1)
On visiting the Tomb of Burns	203	(1)
`Old Meg she was a Gipsey'	203	(1)
`There was a naughty Boy'	204	(3)
`Ah! ken ye what I met the day'	207	(1)
Sonnet to Ailsa Rock	208	(1)
`This mortal body of a thousand days'	209	(1)
`There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain'	209	(2)
`All gentle folks who owe a grudge'	211	(2)
`Not Aladin magian'	213	(1)
`Read me a Lesson muse, and speak it loud'	214	(1)
`Upon my Life Sir Nevis I am piqued'	215	(2)
On Some Skulls in Beauley Abbey, near Inverness	217	(3)
Nature withheld Cassandra in the Skies	220	(1)
`'Tis ``the witching time of night'''	221	(1)
`And what is Love?---It is a doll dress'd up'	222	(1)
Fragment: `Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow'	223	(1)
Fragment: `Where's the Poet? Show him! show him!'	224	(1)
To Homer	224	(1)
Hyperion: A Fragment	225	(22)
Fancy	247	(3)
Ode: `Bards of Passion and of Mirth'	250	(1)
`I had a dove and the sweet dove died'	251	(1)
Faery Song: `Ah! woe is me! poor Silver-wing!'	251	(1)
Song: `Hush, hush, tread softly, hush, hush my dear'	252	(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes	252	(13)
The Eve of St. Mark	265	(3)
`Gif ye wol stonden hardie wight'	268	(1)
`Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell'	268	(1)
`When they were come unto the Faery's Court'	269	(2)
`He is to weet a melancholy Carle'	271	(1)
A dream, after reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and Francesca	272	(1)
La belle dame sans merci	273	(1)
Song of four Fairies: Fire, Air, Earth, and Water	274	(4)
Sonnet to Sleep	278	(1)
Ode to Psyche	278	(2)
On Fame (`Fame like a wayward girl will still be coy')	280	(1)
On Fame (`How fever'd is that Man who cannot look')	281	(1)
`If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd'	281	(1)
Two or three Posies	282	(1)
Ode on Indolence	283	(2)
`Shed no tear---O shed no tear'	285	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	285	(3)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	288	(2)
Ode on Melancholy	290	(1)
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream	291	(14)
Lamia	305	(18)
`Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes'	323	(1)
To Autumn	324	(1)
`Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art'	325	(1)
On Coaches. From `The Jealousies'	325	(2)
`The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone'	327	(1)
`What can I do to drive away'	327	(2)
`I cry your mercy---pity---love!---aye, love'	329	(1)
To Fanny	329	(2)
`This living hand, now warm and capable'	331	(1)
`In after time a Sage of mickle lore'	331	(2)
PROSE
`Whenne Alexandre the Conqueroure'	333	(1)
Keats's Marginalia to the Shakespeare Folio	333	(3)
Keats's Marginalia to Paradise Lost	336	(9)
Mr. Kean	345	(2)
Rejected Preface to Endymion	347	(1)
Letter to C. C. Clarke, 9 October 1816	348	(1)
Letter to.J. H. Reynolds, 17, 18 April 1817	349	(3)
Letter to Leigh Hunt, 10 May 1817	352	(2)
Letter to B. R. Haydon, 10, 11 May 1817	354	(3)
Letter to Jane and Mariane Reynolds, 14 September 1817	357	(3)
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 8 October 1817	360	(2)
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 3 November 1817	362	(2)
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817	364	(3)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 November 1817	367	(2)
Letter to George and Tom Keats, 21,?27 December 1817	369	(2)
Letter to B. R. Haydon, 23 January 1818	371	(1)
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 23 January 1818	371	(2)
Letter to George and Tom Keats, 23, 24 January 1818	373	(2)
Letter to John Taylor, 30 January 1818	375	(1)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 February 1818	376	(2)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 19 February 1818	378	(1)
Letter to John Taylor, 27 February 1818	379	(2)
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 13 March 1818	381	(2)
Letter to J: H. Reynolds, 14 March 1818	383	(2)
Letter to B. R. Haydon, 21 March 1818	385	(1)
Letter to James Rice, 24 March 1818	386	(2)
Letter to B. R. Haydon, 8 April 1818	388	(2)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 9 April 1818	390	(1)
Letter to John Taylor, 24 April 1818	391	(2)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 27 April 1818	393	(1)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818	394	(5)
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 10 June 1818	399	(1)
Letter to Tom Keats, 25--27 June 1818	400	(3)
Letter to Tom Keats, 29 June, 1, 2 July 1818	403	(2)
Letter to Fanny Keats, 2, 3, 5 July 1818	405	(2)
Letter to Tom Keats, 3, 5, 7, 9 July 1818	407	(3)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 11, 13 July 1818	410	(3)
Letter to Mrs. James Wylie, 6 August 1818	413	(2)
Letter to C. W. Dilke, 20, 21 September 1818	415	(1)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, ?22 September 1818	416	(1)
Letter to J. A. Hessey, 8 October 1818	417	(1)
Letter to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818	418	(2)
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 14, 16, 21, 24, 31 October 1818	420	(9)
Letter to B. R. Haydon, 22 December 1818	429	(1)
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 16--18, 22, ?29, 31 December 1818, 2--4 January 1819	430	(15)
Letter to B. R. Haydon, 8 March 1819	445	(1)
Letter to Joseph Severn, 29 March 1819	446	(1)
Letter to Fanny Keats, 12 April 1819	446	(1)
Letter to B. R. Haydon, 13 April 1819	447	(1)
Letter to Fanny Keats, 1 May 1819	448	(1)
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 14 February--3 May 1819	449	(26)
Letter to Mary-Ann Jeffery, 31 May 1819	475	(2)
Letter to Mary-Ann Jeffery, 9 June 1819	477	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, 1 July 1819	478	(2)
Letter to Fanny Brawn, 8 July 1819	480	(1)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 11 July 1819	481	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?15 July 1819	482	(2)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, 25 July 1819	484	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, 5, 6 August 1819	485	(2)
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 14 August 1819	487	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, 16 August 1819	487	(2)
Letter to John Taylor, 23 August 1819	489	(2)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 24 August 1819	491	(1)
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 21 September 1819	492	(2)
Letter to Richard Woodhouse, 21, 22 September 1819	494	(3)
Letter to Charles Brown, 22 September, 1819	497	(2)
Letter to C. W. Dilke, 22 September 1819	499	(2)
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 17--27 September 1819	501	(18)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, 13 October 1819	519	(1)
Letter to John Taylor, 17 November 1819	520	(1)
Letter to Fanny Keats, 8 February 1820	521	(1)
Letter to James Rice, 14, 16 February 1820	522	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?February 1820	523	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?February 1820	523	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?27 February 1820	524	(1)
Letter to C. W. Dilke, 4 March 1820	525	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?March 1820	526	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?March 1820	527	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?March 1820	528	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?March 1820	528	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?May 1820	529	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?June 1820	530	(2)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?5 July 1820	532	(1)
Letter to Fanny Brawne, ?August 1820	533	(1)
Letter to John Taylor, 13 August 1820	534	(1)
Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 16 August 1820	535	(1)
Letter to Charles Brown, ?August 1820	536	(1)
Letter to Fanny Keats, 23 August 1820	537	(1)
Letter to Charles Brown, 30 September 1820	538	(1)
Letter to Mrs. Samuel Brawne, ?24 October 1820	539	(2)
Letter to Charles Brown, 1 November 1820	541	(1)
Letter to Charles Brown, 30 November 1820	542	(2)
Appendix I: St. Agnes' Eve	544	(11)
Appendix II: La Belle Dame sans Mercy	555	(2)
Notes	557	(85)
Further Reading	642	(3)
Glossary of Classical Names	645	(9)
Index of Keats's Correspondents and Others to whom he Frequently Refers	654	(9)
Index of Poem Titles and First Lines	663