Selected Letters of John Keats

by Keats, John

• ISBN13: 9780674018419
• ISBN10: 0674018419
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It also offers a revealing look at his "posthumous existence," the period of Keats's illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keats's deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr. James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse--omitted from other selections of Keats's letters--offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man. Edited for greater readability, with annotations reduced and punctuation and spelling judiciously modernized, this selection recreates the spontaneity with which these letters were originally written.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Editorial Procedures	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction	xxi
Events in the Life of John Keats	xxxv
Keats's Correspondents	xxxix
LETTERS, 1816-1821
1816-1817
C.C. CLARKE
September	3	(4)
C.C. CLARKE
9 October	7	(1)
C.C. CLARKE
31 October	8	(1)
B.R. HAYDON
20 November	9	(1)
C.C. CLARKE
17 December	10	(2)
J.H. REYNOLDS
17 March	12	(1)
GEORGE AND TOM KEATS
15 April	13	(2)
J.H. REYNOLDS
17, 18 April	15	(3)
LEIGH HUNT
10 May	18	(4)
B.R. HAYDON
10, 11 May	22	(4)
TAYLOR AND HESSEY
16 May	26	(1)
TAYLOR AND HESSEY
10 June	27	(1)
JANE AND MARIANE REYNOLDS
4 September	28	(2)
J.H. REYNOLDS
September	30	(1)
FANNY KEATS
10 September	31	(3)
J.H. REYNOLDS
21 September	34	(6)
B.R. HAYDON
28 September	40	(1)
BENJAMIN BAILEY
8 October	41	(3)
BENJAMIN BAILEY
28-30 October	44	(4)
BENJAMIN BAILEY
3 November	48	(4)
BENJAMIN BAILEY
22 November	52	(4)
J.H. REYNOLDS
22 November	56	(3)
GEORGE AND TOM KEATS
21, 27 (?) December	59	(6)
1818
GEORGE AND TOM KEATS
5 January	65	(4)
B.R. HAYDON
10 January	69	(1)
GEORGE AND TOM KEATS
13, 19 January	70	(2)
B.R. HAYDON
23 January	72	(2)
JOHN TAYLOR
23 January	74	(1)
BENJAMIN BAILEY
23 January	75	(4)
GEORGE AND TOM KEATS
23, 24 January	79	(3)
GEORGE AND TOM KEATS
30 January	82	(3)
JOHN TAYLOR
30 January	85	(1)
J.H. REYNOLDS
3 February	86	(2)
GEORGE AND TOM KEATS
14 (?) February	88	(4)
J.H. REYNOLDS
19 February	92	(2)
GEORGE AND TOM KEATS
21 February	94	(2)
JOHN TAYLOR
27 February	96	(2)
BENJAMIN BAILEY
13 March	98	(3)
J.H. REYNOLDS
14 March	101	(3)
JAMES RICE
24 March	104	(3)
J.H. REYNOLDS
25 March	107	(4)
B.R. HAYDON
8 April	111	(2)
J.H. REYNOLDS
9 April	113	(2)
J.H. REYNOLDS
17 April	115	(1)
JOHN TAYLOR
24 April	116	(2)
J.H. REYNOLDS
27 April	118	(2)
J.H. REYNOLDS
3 May	120	(6)
BENJAMIN NJAMIN BAILEY
21, 25 May	126	(2)
BENJAMIN BAILEY
10 June	128	(2)
TOM KEATS
25-27 June	130	(5)
GEORGE AND GEORGIANA KEATS
27, 28 June	135	(3)
TOM KEATS
29 June, 1, 2 July	138	(4)
FANNY KEATS
2, 3, 5 July	142	(6)
TOM KEATS
3, 5, 7, 9 July	148	(4)
J.H. REYNOLDS
11, 13 July	152	(4)
TOM KEATS
10, 11, 13, 14 July	156	(6)
TOM KEATS
17, 18, 20, 21 July	162	(6)
BENJAMIN BAILEY
18, 22 July	168	(5)
TOM KEATS
23, 26 July	173	(6)
TOM KEATS
3, 6 August	179	(6)
MRS. JAMES WYLIE
6 August	185	(2)
FANNY KEATS
19 August	187	(2)
C.W. DILKE
20, 21 September	189	(2)
J.H. REYNOLDS
22 (?) September	191	(1)
J.A. HESSEY
8 October	192	(1)
FANNY KEATS
26 October	193	(1)
RICHARD WOODHOUSE
27 October	194	(2)
GEORGE AND GEORGIANA KEATS
14, 16, 21, 24, 31 October	196	(13)
JAMES RICE
24 November	209	(1)
B.R. HAYDON
22 December	210	(5)
1819
GEORGE AND GEORGIANA KEATS
16-18, 22, 29 (?), 31 December 1818, 2-4 January 1819	215	(23)
B.R. HAYDON
10(?) January	238	(1)
FANNY KEATS
11 February	239	(2)
B.R. HAYDON
18 (?) February	241	(1)
FANNY KEATS
27 February	242	(1)
B.R. HAYDON
8 March	243	(1)
FANNY KEATS
13 March	244	(2)
JOSEPH SEVERN
29 March	246	(1)
FANNY KEATS
31 March	247	(2)
FANNY KEATS
12 April	249	(1)
B.R. HAYDON
13 April	250	(2)
FANNY KEATS
1 May (?)	252	(2)
GEORGE AND GEORGIANA KEATS
14, 19 February, 3 (?), 12, 13, 17, 19 March, 15, 16, 21, 30 April, 3, 4 May	254	(47)
MISS JEFFERY
31 May	301	(2)
MISS JEFFERY
9 June	303	(2)
FANNY KEATS
9 June	305	(1)
B.R. HAYDON
17 June	306	(1)
FANNY KEATS
17 June	307	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
1 July	308	(2)
FANNY KEATS
6 July	310	(2)
FANNY BRAWNE
8 July	312	(2)
J.H. REYNOLDS
11 July	314	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
15 (?) July	315	(2)
FANNY BRAWNE
25 July	317	(2)
C.W. DILKE (WITH CHARLES BROWN)
31 July	319	(2)
FANNY BRAWNE
5, 6 August	321	(2)
BENJAMIN BAILEY
14 August	323	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
16 August	324	(3)
JOHN TAYLOR
23 August	327	(2)
J.H. REYNOLDS
24 August	329	(1)
FANNY KEATS
28 August	330	(2)
JOHN TAYLOR
31 August	332	(1)
J.A. HESSEY
5 September	333	(1)
JOHN TAYLOR
5 September	334	(4)
FANNY BRAWNE
13 September	338	(1)
JOHN TAYLOR (FROM RICHARD WOODHOUSE)
19, 20 September	339	(5)
J. H. REYNOLDS
21 September	344	(3)
RICHARD WOODHOUSE
21, 22 September	347	(6)
CHARLES BROWN
22 September	353	(2)
C.W. DILKE
22 September	355	(3)
CHARLES BROWN
23 September	358	(1)
GEORGE AND GEORGIANA KEATS
17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27 September	359	(26)
C.W. DILKE
1 October	385	(1)
B.R. HAYDON (WITH CHARLES BROWN)
3 October	386	(3)
FANNY BRAWNE
11 October	389	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
13 October	390	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
19 October	391	(1)
FANNY KEATS
26 (?) October	392	(1)
WILLIAM HASLAM
2 November	393	(1)
JOSEPH SEVERN
15 November	394	(1)
JOHN TAYLOR
17 November	395	(1)
JAMES RICE
December	396	(1)
FANNY KEATS
20 December	397	(6)
1820
GEORGIANA WYLIE KEATS
13, 15, 17, 28 January	403	(8)
FANNY BRAWNE
4 (?) February	411	(1)
FANNY KEATS
6 February	412	(1)
FANNY KEATS
8 February	413	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
10 (?) February	414	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
February (?)	415	(1)
FANNY KEATS
14 February	416	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
February (?)	417	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
February (?)	417	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
February (?)	418	(1)
JAMES RICE
14, 16 February	419	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
February (?)	420
FANNY BRAWNE
February (?)	421	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
February (?)	422	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
24 (?) February	423	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
27 (?) February	424	(1)
J.H. REYNOLDS
28 February	425	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
28 (?) February	426	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
29 (?) February	426	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
1 March (?)	427	(1)
C.W. DILKE
4 March	428	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
March (?)	429	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
March (?)	430	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
March (?)	431	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
March (?)	432	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
March (?)	433	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
March (?)	434	(1)
FANNY KEATS
20 March	435	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
March (?)	435	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
March (?)	436	(1)
MRS. JAMES WYLIE
24 (?) March	437	(1)
FANNY KEATS
1 April	438	(1)
FANNY KEATS
12 April	439	(1)
FANNY KEATS
21 April	440	(1)
FANNY KEATS
4 May	441	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
May (?)	442	(2)
FANNY BRAWNE
June (?)	444	(2)
JOHN TAYLOR
11 (?) June	446	(1)
CHARLES BROWN
about 21 June	447	(2)
FANNY KEATS
23 June	449	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
4 July (?)	449	(1)
FANNY BRAWNE
5 July (?)	450	(2)
FANNY KEATS
5 July	452	(1)
WILLIAM HASLAM (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
12 (?) July	453	(1)
FANNY KEATS
22 July	454	(1)
JOHN KEATS (FROM PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY)
27 July	455	(2)
FANNY BRAWNE
August (?)	457	(1)
FANNY KEATS
13 August	458	(1)
JOHN TAYLOR
13 August	459	(1)
LEIGH HUNT
13 (?) August	460	(1)
JOHN TAYLOR
14 August	461	(1)
CHARLES BROWN
14 August	462	(1)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
16 August	463	(2)
CHARLES BROWN
August (?)	465	(1)
ANNY KEATS
23 August	466	(1)
FANNY KEATS
11 September	467	(1)
WILLIAM HASLAM (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
19 September	468	(2)
WILLIAM HASLAM (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
21 September	470	(4)
CHARLES BROWN
30 September	474	(2)
WILLIAM HASLAM (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
22 October	476	(1)
MRS. SAMUEL BRAWNE
24 (?) October	477	(2)
CHARLES BROWN
1, 2 November	479	(2)
WILLIAM HASLAM (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
1, 2 November	481	(3)
? (FROM DR. JAMES CLARK)
27 November	484	(1)
CHARLES BROWN
30 November	485	(2)
CHARLES BROWN (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
14, 17 December	487	(3)
JOHN TAYLOR (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
24 December	490	(7)
1821
? (FROM DR. JAMES CLARK)
3 January	497	(1)
MRS. SAMUEL BRAWNE (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
11 January	498	(3)
WILLIAM HASLAM (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
15 January	501	(3)
JOHN TAYLOR (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
25, 26 January	504	(3)
WILLIAM HASLAM (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
22 February	507	(3)
JOHN TAYLOR (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
6 March	510	(2)
WILLIAM HASLAM (FROM CHARLES BROWN)
18 March	512	(1)
WILLIAM HASLAM (FROM JOSEPH SEVERN)
5 May	513	(4)
Index	517