Bibliography
(British Museum).
| I. | Works. |
| II. | Poetical Works. |
| III. | Single Works. |
| IV. | Letters, etc. |
| V. | Miscellaneous. |
| VI. | Appendix— |
| Biography, Criticism, etc. | |
| Magazine Articles. | |
| VII. | Chronological List of Works. |
I. Works
The Poetical Works and other Writings of John Keats, now first brought together, including poems and numerous letters not before published. Edited, with notes and appendices, by H. B. Forman. 4 vols. London, 1883, 8vo.
The Letters of John Keats. Edited by J. G. Speed. (The Poems of J. Keats, with the annotations of Lord Houghton, and a memoir by J. G. Speed.) 3 vols. New York, 1883, 8vo.
A number of letters now included in this work were first published in the New York World of June 25-6, 1877, and afterwards reprinted in the Academy, vol. xii., 1877, pp. 38-40, 65-67.
II. Poetical Works
The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. In one volume. Paris, 1829, 8vo.
John Keats (including Memoir), i.-vii. and 1-75.
Standard Library. The Poetical Works of J. K. London, 1840, 8vo.
The first collected edition of Keats’s Works.
The Poetical Works of J. K. London, 1840, 8vo.
With an engraved frontispiece from the portrait in chalk by Hilton. This book, although dated 1840, was not issued until the following year. The frontispiece is dated correctly.
The Poetical Works of J. K. London, 1841, 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. A new edition. London, 1851, 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. With Memoir by R. M. Milnes [Lord Houghton]. Illustrated by a portrait and 120 designs by George Scharf, Jun. London, 1854, 8vo.
A small number of copies were struck off upon large paper.
The Poetical Works of J. K. With a life [signed J. R. L.—i.e., James Russell Lowell]. Boston [U.S.], 1854, 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. With a Memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes [Lord Houghton]. A new edition. London, 1861, 8vo.
Upon the reverse of the half-title to the “Memoir” is a wood-cut profile of Keats.
The Poetical Works of J. K. Edited, with a critical memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated by T. Seccombe. London [1872], 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. Edited, with an introductory memoir and illustrations, by William B. Scott. London [1873], 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. With a memoir by James Russell Lowell. Portrait and 10 illustrations. New York, 1873, 8vo.
The Memoir was afterwards reprinted in “Among my Books,” second series, 1876, pp. 303-327.
The Poetical Works of J. K., reprinted from the early editions, with memoir, explanatory notes, etc. (Chandos Classics.) London [1874], 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. Chronologically arranged and edited, with a memoir, by Lord Houghton. (Aldine Edition.) London, 1876, 8vo.
The Poetical Works of Coleridge and Keats, with a memoir of each. (Riverside Edition.) 4 vols. in 2. New York, 1878, 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. London [1878], 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. Edited, with an introductory memoir, by W. B. Scott. (Excelsior Series.) London [1880], 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. Edited, with a critical memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. [Portrait, fac-simile, and six illustrations by Thomas Seccombe.] (Moxon’s Popular Poets.) London [1880], 8vo.
The same as the edition of 1872. The Memoir was reprinted in “Lives of Famous Poets.”
The Poetical Works of J. K., reprinted from the original editions, with notes, by F. T. Palgrave. (Golden Treasury Series.) London, 1884, 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. Edited by W. T. Arnold. London, 1884, 8vo.
There was a large paper edition, consisting of fifty copies, numbered and signed.
The Poetical Works of John Keats. Edited by H. B. Forman. London, 1884, 8vo.
The Poetical Works of J. K. With an introductory sketch by John Hogben. (Canterbury Poets.) London, 1885, 8vo.
III. Single Works
Poems, by John Keats. London, 1817, 16mo.
The Museum copy contains a MS. note by F. Locker.
Endymion; a Poetic Romance. By J. K. London, 1818, 8vo.
Endymion. Illustrated by F. Joubert. From paintings by E. J. Poynter. London, 1873, fol.
The Eve of St. Agnes. By J. K. With 20 illustrations by E. H. Wehnert. London, 1856, 8vo.
The Eve of St. Agnes. Illustrated by E. H. Wehnert. London [1875], 8vo.
The Eve of St. Agnes. Illustrated by nineteen etchings by Charles O. Murray. London, 1830, fol.
The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems. Illustrated. Boston [U.S.], 1876, 24mo.
Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society. London, 1856-7, 8vo.
Vol. iii. contains “Another version of Keats’s Hyperion, a Vision,” edited, with an introduction, by R. M. Milnes (Lord Houghton).
Keatsii Hyperionis. Libri i-ii. Latine reddidit Carolus Merivale. Cambridge, 1862, 8vo.
Keats’s Hyperion. Book I. With notes [life and introduction]. London [1877], 8vo.
Keats’s Hyperion. Book I. With introduction, elucidatory notes, and an appendix of exercises. London [1878], 8vo.
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems. By J. K. London, 1820, 12mo.
Lamia. With illustrative designs by W. H. Low. Philadelphia, 1885, fol.
Ode to a Nightingale. By J. K. Edited, with an introduction, by Thomas J. Wise. London, 1884, 8vo.
Printed for private distribution, and issued in parchment wrappers. Four copies on vellum and twenty-five on paper only printed.
IV. Letters, etc.
Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of J. K. Edited by R. M. Milnes. 2 vols. London, 1848, 16mo.
Life and Letters of John Keats. A new and completely revised edition. Edited by Lord Houghton. London, 1867, 8vo.
Letters of J. K. to Fanny Brawne, written in the years 1819 and 1820, and now given from the original manuscripts, with introduction and notes, by Harry Buxton Forman. London, 1878, 8vo.
In addition to the ordinary issue, the following special copies were “printed for private distribution”—In 8vo on Whatman’s hand-made paper 60 copies, on vellum 2 copies; in post 8vo there were 6 copies with title-page set up in different style, and 2 copies of coloured bank-note paper, one blue and the other yellow.
V. Miscellaneous
Contributions to Magazines
Annals of the Fine Arts. A quarterly magazine, edited by James Elmes—
“Ode to the Nightingale,” vol. iv., 1820, pp. 354-356. The first appearance of this poem, which was afterwards included in the “Lamia” volume, 1820, pp. 107-112.
“Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Appeared first in the “Annals of the Fine Arts” vol. iv., 1820, pp. 638, 639, afterwards included in the Lamia volume.
The Athenæum—
First appearance of the Sonnet “On hearing the Bag-pipe and seeing ‘The Stranger’ played at Inverary,” June 7, 1873, p. 725.
The Champion—
“On Edmund Kean as a Shakesperian actor, and on Kean in ‘Richard, Duke of York.’” Appeared on the 21st and 28th Dec. 1817.
The Dial—
“Notes on Milton’s Paradise Lost.” In vol. iii., 1843, pp, 500-504; reprinted by Lord Houghton.
The Examiner—
The “Sonnet to Solitude,” Keats’s first published poem, according to Charles Cowden Clarke, appeared on the 5th of May 1816, signed J. K., p. 282.
The first appearance of the sonnet “To Kosciusko,” Feb. 16, 1817, p. 107.
The first appearance of the sonnet, “After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains,” etc., Feb. 23, 1817, p. 124.
Two sonnets “To Haydon, with a Sonnet written on seeing the Elgin Marbles,” and “On seeing the Elgin Marbles” appear for the first time, March 9, 1817, p. 155. In 1818 they were reprinted in the Annals of the Fine Arts, No. 8.
The first appearance of the sonnet, “Written on a blank space at the end of Chaucer’s tale of ‘The Floure and the Lefe,’” March 16, 1817, p. 173.
Sonnet “On the Grasshopper and Cricket” appeared on the 21st Sept. 1817, p. 599.
The Gem, a Literary Annual, Edited by Thomas Hood—
The sonnet “On a picture of Leander” appeared for the first time in 1829, p. 108.
Hood’s Comic Annual—
“Sonnet to a Cat,” 1830, p. 14.
Hood’s Magazine—
In vol. ii., 1844, p. 240, the sonnet “Life’s sea hath been five times at its slow ebb” appears for the first time; included by Lord Houghton in the Literary Remains.
In vol. ii., 1844, p. 562, the poem “Old Meg,” written during a tour in Scotland, appears for the first time.
The Indicator. Edited by Leigh Hunt—
In vol. i., 1820, p. 120. there are thirty-four lines, headed Vox et præterea nihil, supposed by Mr. Forman to be a cancelled passage of Endymion, and reprinted by him in his edition of Keats, 1883, vol. i, p. 221.
In vol. i. 1820, pp. 246-248, the poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” first appeared, and signed “Caviare.”
First appearance of the sonnet, “A Dream after reading Dante’s Episode of ‘Paolo and Francesca,’” signed “Caviare,” vol. i. 1820, p. 304.
Leigh Hunt’s Literary Pocket Book—
First appearance of the sonnets, “To Ailsa Rock” and “The Human Season” in 1819.
VI. Appendix
Biography, Criticism, etc.
Armstrong, Edmund J.—Essays and Sketches of Edmund J. Armstrong. London, 1877, 8vo.
Keats, pp. 176-179.
Atlantic Monthly.—Boston, 1858, 8vo.
“The Poet Keats.” Seven stanzas, vol. ii., pp. 531-532.
Belfast, Earl of.—Poets and Poetry of the xixth century. A course of lectures. London, 1852, 8vo.
Moore, Keats, Scott, pp. 59-131.
Best Bits.—Best Bits. London, 1884, 8vo.
“The Last Moments of Keats,” vol. ii., p. 119.
Biographical Magazine.—Lives of the Illustrious (The Biographical Magazine). London, 1853, 8vo.
John Keats, vol. iii., pp. 260-271.
Caine, T. Hall. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. London, 1882, 8vo.
Keats, pp. 167-183.
Caine, T. Hall.—Cobwebs of Criticism, etc. London, 1883, 8vo. Keats, pp. 158-190.
Carr, J. Comyns.—Essays on Art. London, 1879, 8vo.
The artistic spirit in Modern English Poetry, pp. 3-34.
Clarke, Charles Cowden.—The Riches of Chaucer, in which his impurities have been expunged, etc. 2 vols. London, 1835, 12mo.
John Keats, vol. i., pp. 52, 53.
—— Recollections of Writers. London, 1878, 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 120-157.
Colvin, Sidney.—Keats (English Men of Letters). London, 1887, 8vo.
Cotterill, H. B.—An Introduction to the Study of Poetry. London, 1882, 8vo.
Keats, pp. 242-268.
Courthope, William J.—The Liberal Movement in English Literature. London, 1885, 8vo.
Poetry, Music, and Painting. Coleridge and Keats, pp. 159-194.
Cunningham, Allan.—Biographical and Critical History of the British Literature of the last fifty years. [Reprinted from the “Athenæum.”] Paris, 1834, 12mo.
Keats, pp. 102-104.
Dennis, John.—Heroes of Literature. English Poets. London, 1883, 8vo.
Keats, pp. 365-373.
De Quincey, Thomas.—Essays on the Poets, and other English Writers. Boston, 1853, 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 75-97.
—— De Quincey’s Works. 16 vols. Edinburgh, 1862-71, 12mo.
John Keats, vol. v, pp. 269-288.
Devey, J.—A comparative estimate of Modern English Poetry. London, 1873, 8vo.
Alexandrine Poets. Keats, pp. 263-274.
Dilke, Charles Wentworth.—The Papers of a Critic. Selected from the writings of the late Charles W. Dilke. 2 vols. London, 1875, 8vo.
John Keats, vol. i., pp. 2-14.
Encyclopædia Britannica.—Encyclopædia Britannica. Eighth edition. Edinburgh, 1857, 4to.
John Keats, vol. xiii., pp. 55-57.
—— Ninth edition. Edinburgh, 1882, 4to.
John Keats, by Algernon C. Swinburne, vol. xiv., pp. 22-24.
English Writers.—Essays on English Writers. By the author of “The Gentle Life.” London, 1869, 8vo.
Shelley, Keats, etc., pp. 338-349.
Gilfillan, George.—A Gallery of Literary Portraits. Edinburgh, 1845, 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 372-385.
Gossip.—The Gossip. London, 1821, 8vo.
Three Stanzas, signed G. V. D., May 19, 1821, p. 96, “On Reading Lamia and other poems, by John Keats.”
Griswold, Rufus W.—The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century. New York, 1875, 8vo.
John Keats, with portrait, pp. 301-311.
Haydon, Benjamin Robert,—Life of B. R. Haydon. Edited and compiled by Tom Taylor. 3 vols. London, 1853, 8vo.
Numerous references to Keats.
—— Correspondence and Table-Talk. With a memoir by his son, F. W. Haydon. 2 vols. London, 1876, 8vo.
Contains ten letters and two extracts from letters to Haydon, and ten letters from Haydon to Keats, vol. ii., pp. 1-17.
Hinde, F.—Essays and Poems. Liverpool, 1864, 8vo.
The life and works of the poet Keats: a paper read before the Liverpool Philomathic Society, April 15, 1862, pp. 57-95.
Hoffmann, Frederick A.—Poetry, its origin, nature, and history, etc. London, 1884, 8vo.
Keats, vol. i., pp. 483-491.
Howitt, William.—Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets. Third edition. London, 1857, 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 292-300.
—— The Northern Heights of London, etc. London, 1869, 8vo.
Keats, pp. 95-103.
Hunt, Leigh.—Imagination and Fancy; or, selections from the English Poets. London, 1844, 12mo.
Keats, born 1796, died 1821, pp. 312-345.
—— Foliage, or Poems original and translated. London, 1818, 8vo.
Contains four sonnets; “To John Keats,” “On receiving a Crown of Ivy from the same,” “On the same,” “To the Grasshopper and the Cricket.”
—— Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries; with recollections of the author’s life, and of his visit to Italy. London, 1826, 4to.
John Keats, pp. 246-268.
—— The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt; with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries. In three volumes. London, 1850, 8vo.
The references to John Keats, vol. ii., pp. 201-216, etc. are substantially reproduced from the preceding work.
Hutton, Laurence.—Literary Landmarks of London. London, [1885], 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 177-182.
Jeffrey, Francis.—Contributions to the Edinburgh Review. London, 1853, 8vo.
John Keats. Review of Endymion and Lamia, pp. 526-534.
Lester, John W.—Criticisms. Third edition, London, 1853, 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 343-349.
Lowell, James Russell.—Among my Books. Second series. London, 1876, 8vo.
Keats, pp. 303-327.
—— The Poetical Works of J. R. L. New revised edition. Boston [U.S.], 1882, 8vo.
Sonnet “To the Spirit of Keats,” p. 20.
Maginn, William.—Miscellanies: prose and verse. Edited by R. W. Montagu. 2 vols. London, 1885; 8vo.
Remarks on Shelley’s Adonais, vol. ii., pp. 300-311.
Mario, Jessie White.—Sepoleri Inglesi in Roma. (Estratto dalla Nuova Antologia, 15 Maggio, 1879.) Roma, 1879, 8vo.
On Keats and Shelley.
Mason, Edward T.—Personal Traits of British Authors. New York, 1885, 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 195-207.
Masson, David.—Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays. London, 1874, 8vo.
“The Life and Poetry of Keats,” pp. 143-191.
Medwin, Thomas.—Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: noted during a residence with his Lordship at Pisa, in the years 1821 and 1822. By T. Medwin. London, 1824, 4to.
John Keats, pp. 143, 237-240, 255, etc.
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Lord Houghton.—Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats. In two volumes. London, 1848, 8vo.
—— Life and Letters of John Keats. A new and completely revised edition. Edited by Lord Houghton, London, 1867, 8vo.
Mitford, Mary Russell.—Recollections of a Literary Life, etc. 3 vols. London, 1852, 8vo.
Shelley and Keats, vol. ii., pp. 183-192.
Moir, D. M.—Sketches of the poetical literature of the past half-century. London, 1851, 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 215-221.
Noel, Hon. Roden.—Essays on poetry and poets. London, 1886, 8vo.
Keats, pp. 150-171.
Notes and Queries.—General Index to Notes and Queries. 5 series. London, 1856-80, 4to.
Numerous references to John Keats.
Olio.—The Olio. London [1828]. 8vo.
“Recollections of Books and their Authors,” No. 6, “John Keats, the Poet,” vol. i., pp. 391-394.
Oliphant, Mrs.—The Literary History of England, etc. 3 vols. London, 1885, 8vo.
John Keats, vol. iii., pp. 133-155.
Owen, Frances Mary.—John Keats. A Study. London, 1880, 8vo.
Reviewed in the Academy, July 5 1884, p. 2.
Payn, James.—Stories from Boccaccio, and other Poems. London, 1852, 8vo.
Sonnet to John Keats, p. 97.
Phillips, Samuel.—Essays from “The Times.” Being a selection from the literary papers which have appeared in that journal. London, 1851, 8vo.
“The Life of John Keats,” pp. 255-269. This article originally appeared in “The Times” on Sept. 17, 1849.
—— New Edition. 2 vols. London, 1871, 8vo.
John Keats, vol. i., pp. 255-269.
Richardson, David Lester.—Literary Chit-Chat, etc. Calcutta, 1848, 8vo.
Shelley, Keats, and Coleridge, pp. 271-281.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.—Ballads and Sonnets. London, 1881, 8vo.
Sonnets “To Five English Poets.” No. iv., John Keats, p. 316.
Rossetti, William Michael.—Lives of Famous Poets. London [1885], 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 349-361.
Sarrazin, Gabriel.—Poètes Modernes de l’Angleterre. Paris, 1885, 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 131-152.
Scott, William Bell.—Poems, Ballads, Studies from Nature, Sonnets, etc. Illustrated by seventeen etchings by the author and L. Alma Tadema. London, 1875, 8vo.
An etching by the author of Keats’ Grave, p. 177; sonnet “On the Inscription, Keats’ Tombstone,” p. 179. An Ode “To the memory of John Keats,” pp. 226-230.
Scribner’s Monthly Magazine.—Scribner’s Monthly Magazine. New York, 1880, 1887, 8vo.
The No. for June 1880 contains fourteen lines “To the Immortal memory of Keats,” and the May No. for 1887, p. 110, “Keats” (ten verses) by Robert Burns Wilson.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe.—Adonais. An elegy on the death of John Keats, author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. Pisa, 1821, 4to.
—— Adonais. An elegy on the death of John Keats, etc. Cambridge, 1829, 8vo.
—— Adonais. Edited, with notes, by H. Buxton Forman. London, 1880, 8vo.
Shelley, Lady.—Shelley Memorials; from authentic sources. Edited by Lady Shelley. London, 1859, 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 74, 150-152, 155, 156, 200, 203.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence.—Victorian Poets. London, 1876, 8vo.
John Keats, pp. 18, 104, 106, 155, 367, etc.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles.—Miscellanies. London, 1886, 8vo.
Keats, pp. 210-218. Originally appeared in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Tuckerman, Henry T.—Characteristics of Literature, illustrated by the genius of distinguished men. Philadelphia, 1849, 8vo.
Final Memorials of Lamb and Keats, pp. 256-269.
—— Thoughts on the Poets. London [1852], 12mo.
Keats, pp. 212-226.
Verdicts.—Verdicts. [Verse.] London, 1852, 8vo.
John Keats, occupies 93 lines, pp. 28-32.
Ward, Thomas H.—The English Poets, etc. 4 vols. London, 1883, 8vo.
John Keats, by Matthew Arnold, vol. iv., pp. 427-464.
Willis, N. P.—Pencillings by the Way. A new edition. London, 1844, 8vo.
“Keats’s Poems,” pp. 84-88.
Wiseman, Cardinal.—On the Perception of Natural Beauty by the Ancients and the Moderns, etc. London, 1856, 8vo.
Keats, pp. 13, 14; reviewed by Leigh Hunt in Fraser’s Magazine for December, 1859.
Magazine Articles
Keats, John
—Examiner, June 1, 1817, p. 345, July 6, 1817, pp. 428, 429, July 13, 1817, pp. 443, 444.
—Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 3, 1818, pp. 519-524.
—Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 7, 1820, p. 665; vol. 27, 1830, p. 633.
—Indicator, by Leigh Hunt, vol. 1, 1820, pp. 337-352.
—Quarterly Review, vol. 37, 1828, pp. 416-421.
—Southern Literary Messenger, by H. T. Tuckerman, vol. 8, 1842, pp. 37-41.
—Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, by T. De Quincey, vol. 13, N.S., 1846, pp. 249-254; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 8, pp. 202-209.
—Democratic Review, vol. 21, N.S., 1847, pp. 427-429.
—United States Magazine, vol. 21, N.S., 1847, pp. 427-429; vol. 26, N.S., 1850, pp. 415-421.
—Hogg’s Weekly Instructor, with portrait, vol. 1, 1848, pp. 145-148; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 14, pp. 409-415.
—Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, vol. 10, N.S., 1848, pp. 376-380.
—Sharpe’s London Magazine, vol. 8, 1849, pp. 56-60.
—Knickerbocker, vol. 55, 1860, pp. 392-397.
—Temple Bar, vol. 38, 1873, pp. 501-512.
—Edinburgh Review, July 1876, pp. 38-42.
—Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, vol. 40. 1870, pp. 523-525 and vol. 55, 1877, by E. F. Madden, pp. 357-361, illustrated.
—Scribner’s Monthly, by R. H. Stoddard, vol. 15, 1877, pp. 203-213.
—American Bibliopolist, vol. 7, p. 94, etc., and vol. 8, p. 94, etc.
—La Revue Politique et Littéraire, by Léo Quesnel, 1877, pp. 61-65.
—Argonaut, by Reginald W. Corlass, vol. 2, 1875, pp. 172-178.
—Canadian Monthly, by Edgar Fawcett, vol. 2, 1879, pp. 449-454.
—Century, by Edmund C. Stedman, illustrated, vol. 27, 1884, pp. 599-602.
—— and his Critics. Dial, vol. 1, 1881, pp. 265, 266.
—— and Joseph Severn. Dublin University Magazine, by E. S. R., vol. 96, 1880, pp. 37-39.
—— and Lamb. Southern Literary Messenger, by H. T. Tuckerman, vol. 14, 1848, pp. 711-715.
—— and Shelley. To-Day, June 1883, pp. 188-206, etc.
—— and the Quarterly Review. Morning Chronicle, Oct. 3 and 8, 1818 (two letters). Examiner, 11 Oct., 1818, pp. 648, 649.
—— an Esculapian Poet. Asclepiad, with portrait on steel, vol. 1, 1884, pp. 138-155.
—— Art of. Our Corner, by J. Robertson, vol. 4, 1884, pp. 40-45, 72-76.
—— Cardinal Wiseman on. Fraser’s Magazine, by Leigh Hunt, vol. 60, 1859, pp. 759, 760.
—— daintiest of Poets. Victoria Magazine, vol. 15, 1870, pp. 55-67.
—— Death of. London Magazine, vol. 3, 1821, pp. 426, 427.
—— Verses on death of. London Magazine, vol. 3, 1821, p. 526.
—— Did he really care for music. Manchester Quarterly, by John Mortimer, vol 2, 1883, pp. 11-17.
—— Endymion. Quarterly Review, by Gifford, vol. 19, 1818, pp. 204-208.—London Magazine, vol. 1, 1820, pp. 380-389.
—— Forman’s Edition of. Macmillan’s Magazine, vol. 49, 1884, pp. 330-341.—Times, Aug. 7, 1884.
—— Fragment from. Gentleman’s Magazine, by Grant Allen, vol. 244, 1879, pp. 676-686.
—— Genius of. Christian Remembrancer, vol. 6, N.S., 1843, pp. 251-263.
—— Holman Hunt’s “Isabel.” Fortnightly Review, by B. Cracroft, vol. 3, 1868, pp. 648-657.
—— Hyperion. American Whig Review, vol. 14, 1851, pp. 311-322.
—— Hyperionis, Libri i-ii. Saturday Review, April 26, 1862, pp. 477, 478.
—— in Cloudland. A poem of thirty-one verses. St. James’s Magazine, by R. W. Buchanan, vol. 7, 1863, pp. 470-475.
—— Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and other poems. London Magazine, vol. 2, 1820, pp. 315-321.—Indicator, by Leigh Hunt, vol. 1, 1820, pp. 337-352.—Monthly Review, vol. 92, N.S., 1820, pp. 305-310.—Eclectic Review, vol. 14 N.S., 1820, 158-171.
—— Leigh Hunt’s Farewell Words to. Indicator, September 20, 1820.
—— Letters to Fanny Brawne. Athenæum, July 14, p. 50, July 21, pp. 80, 81, and July 28, 1877, pp. 114, 115.—Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, vol. 57, 1878, p. 466.—Eclectic Magazine, vol. 27, N.S., 1878, pp. 495-498 (from the Academy).—Appleton’s Journal, by R. H. Stoddard, vol. 4, N.S., 1878, pp. 379-382.
—— Life and Poems of. Macmillan’s Magazine, by D. Masson, vol. 3, 1860, pp. 1-16.
—— Marginalia made by Dante G. Rossetti in a copy of Keats’ Poems. Manchester Quarterly, by George Milner, vol. 2, 1883, pp. 1-10.
—— Milnes’ Life of. American Review, by C. A. Bristed, vol. 8, 1848, pp. 603-610.—Littell’s Living Age, vol. 19, 1848, pp. 20-24.—United States Magazine, vol. 23, N.S., 1848, pp. 375-377.—Athenæum, Aug. 12, 1848, pp. 824-827.—Revue des Deux Mondes, by Philarète Chasles, Tom. 24, Série 5, 1848, pp. 584-607.—Eclectic Review, vol. 24, N.S., 1848, pp. 533-552.—Dublin Review, vol. 25, 1848, pp. 164-179.—British Quarterly Review, vol. 8, 1848, pp. 328-343.—Prospective Review, vol. 4, 1848, pp. 539-555.—Democratic Review, vol. 23, N.S., 1848, pp. 375-377.—Westminster Review, vol. 50, 1849, pp. 349-371.—Sharpe’s London Magazine, vol. 8, 1849, pp. 56-60.—North British Review, vol. 10, 1848, pp. 69-96; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 16, pp. 145-159.—New Monthly Magazine, vol. 84, 1848, pp. 105-115; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 15, pp. 340-343.—Dublin University Magazine, vol. 33, 1849, pp. 28-35.—Democratic Review, vol. 26, N.S., 1850, pp. 415-421.
—— My Copy of. Tinsley’s Magazine, by Richard Dowling, vol. 25, 1879, pp. 427-436.
—— New Editions of. Dial, by W. M. Payne, vol. 4, 1884, pp. 255, 256.
—— Le Paganisme poétique en Angleterre. Revue des Deux Mondes, by Louis Étienne, Tom. 69, période 2, pp. 291-317.—Eclectic Review, vol. 8, 1817, pp. 267-275.
—— Poems of. Examiner, by Leigh Hunt, June 1, July 6 and 13, 1817.—Edinburgh Review, by F. Jeffrey, vol. 34, 1820, pp. 203-213.—Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 8, N.S., 1841, pp. 650, 651.—Dublin University Magazine, vol. 21, 1843, pp. 690-703.—Edinburgh Review, vol. 90, 1849, pp. 424-430.—Massachusetts Quarterly Review, vol. 2, 1849, pp. 414-428.—Dublin University Magazine, vol. 83, 1874, pp. 699-706.—North American Review, vol. 124, 1877, pp. 500-501.
—— Poetry, Music, and Painting: Coleridge and Keats. National Review, by W. J. Courthope, vol. 5, 1885, pp. 504-518.
—— Recollections of. Gentleman’s Magazine, by Charles Cowden Clarke, vol. 12, N.S., 1874, pp. 177-204; same article, Littell’s Living Age, vol. 121, pp. 174-188; Every Saturday, vol. 16, p. 262, etc., 669, etc.—Atlantic Monthly, by C. C. Clarke, vol. 7, 1861, pp. 86-100.
—— School House of, at Enfield. St. James’s Magazine Holiday Annual, 1875, by Charles Cowden Clarke.
—— Thoughts on. New Dominion Monthly (portrait), by Robert S. Weir, 1877, pp. 293-300.
—— Unpublished Notes on Milton. Athenæum, Oct. 26, 1872, pp. 529, 530.
—— Unpublished Notes on Shakespeare. Athenæum, Nov. 16, 1872, p. 634.
—— Vicissitudes of his fame. Atlantic Monthly, by J. Severn, vol. 11, 1863, pp. 401-407; same article, Sharpe’s London Magazine, vol. 34, N.S., 1869, pp. 246-249.
VII — Chronological List of Works
| Poems | 1817 |
| Endymion | 1818 |
| Lamia, etc. | 1820 |
| Life, letters, and literary remains | 1848 |
| Letters to Fanny Brawne | 1878 |
| Letters | 1883 |
Footnotes:
1 A small point here may deserve a note. A letter from John Keats to his brother George, under date of September 21st, 1819, contains the following words: “Our bodies, every seven years, are completely fresh-materialed: seven years ago it was not this hand that clenched itself against Hammond.” Another version of the same letter (the true wording of which is matter of some dispute) substitutes: “Mine is not the same hand I clenched at Hammond’s.” Mr. Buxton Forman, who gives the former phrase as the genuine one, thinks that “this phrase points to a serious rupture as the cause of his quitting his apprenticeship to Hammond.” My own inclination is to surmise that the accurate reading may be—“It was not this hand that clenched itself against Hammond’s”; indicating, not any quarrel, but the friendly habitual clasp of hand against hand. “Seven years ago” would reach back to September 1812: whereas Keats did not part from Hammond until 1814.
2 This is Hunt’s own express statement. It has been disputed, but I am not prepared to reject it.
3 Biographers have been reticent on this subject. Keats’s statement however speaks for itself, and a high medical authority, Dr. Richardson, writing in The Asclepiad for April 1884, and reviewing the whole subject of the poet’s constitutional and other ailments, says that Keats in Oxford “runs loose, and pays a forfeit for his indiscretion which ever afterwards physically and morally embarrasses him.” He pronounces that Keats’s early death was “expedited, perhaps excited, by his own imprudence,” but was substantially due to hereditary disease. His mother, as we have already seen, had died of the malady which killed the poet, consumption. It is not clear to me what Keats meant by saying that “from his employment” his health would be insecure. One might suppose that he was thinking of the long and haphazard working hours of a young surgeon or medical man; in which case, this seems to be the latest instance in which he spoke of himself as still belonging to that profession.
4 Hitherto printed “life”; it seems to me clear that “lips” is the right word.
5 In Medwin’s “Life of Shelley,” vol. ii. pp. 89 to 92, are some interesting remarks upon Keats’s character and demeanour, written in a warm and sympathetic tone. Some of them were certainly penned by Miss Brawne (Mrs. Lindon), and possibly all of them. Mr. Colvin (p. 233 of his book) has called special attention to these remarks: I forbear from quoting them. A leading point is to vindicate Keats from the imputation of “violence of temper.”
6 This passage is taken from Lord Houghton’s “Life, &c., of Keats,” first published in 1848, and by “home” he certainly means Wentworth Place, Hampstead. Yet in his Aldine Edition of Keats, his lordship says that the poet “was at that time, very much against Mr. Brown’s desire and advice, living alone in London.” This latter statement may possibly be correct—I question it. The passage, as written by Lord Houghton, is condensed from the narrative of Brown. The latter is given verbatim in Mr. Colvin’s “Keats,” and is, of course, the more important and interesting of the two. I abstain from quoting it, solely out of regard to Mr. Colvin’s rights of priority.
7 Apparently Miss Brawne had remonstrated against the imputation of “flirting with Brown,” and much else to like effect in a recent letter from Keats.
8 I observe this name occurring once elsewhere in relation to Keats, but am not clear whose house it represents.
9 It has been suggested (by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as printed in Mr. Forman’s edition of Keats) that the poem here referred to is “The Eve of St. Mark.” Keats had begun it fully a year and a half before the date of this letter, but, not having continued it, he might have spoken of “having it in his head.”
10 This may require a word of explanation. Keats, detained at Portsmouth by stress of weather, had landed for a day, and seen his friend Mr. Snook, at Bedhampton. Brown was then in Chichester, only ten miles off, but of this Keats had not at the time been aware.
11 The — before “you” appears in the letter, as printed in Mr. Forman’s edition of Keats. It might seem that Keats hesitated a moment whether to write “you” or “Miss Brawne.”
12 No such letter is known. It has been stated that Keats, after leaving home, could never summon up resolution enough to write to Miss Brawne: possibly this statement ought to be limited to the time after he had reached Italy.
13 Lord Houghton says that Keats in Naples “could not bear to go to the opera, on account of the sentinels who stood constantly on the stage:” he spoke of “the continual visible tyranny of this government,” and said “I will not leave even my bones in the midst of this despotism.” Sentinels on the stage have, I believe, been common in various parts of the continent, as a mere matter of government parade, or of routine for preserving public order. The other points (for which no authority is cited by Lord Houghton) must, I think, be over-stated. In November 1820 the short-lived constitution of the kingdom of Naples was in full operation, and neither tyranny nor despotism was in the ascendant—rather a certain degree of popular license.
14 The reader of Keats’s preface will note that this is a misrepresentation. Keats did not speak of any fierce hell of criticism, nor did he ask to remain uncriticized in order that he might write more. What he said was that a feeling critic would not fall foul of him for hoping to write good poetry in the long run, and would be aware that Keats’s own sense of failure in “Endymion” was as fierce a hell as he could be chastised by.
15 This phrase stands printed with inverted commas, as a quotation. It is not, however, a quotation from the letter of J. S.
16 “Coolness” (which seems to be the right word) in the letter to Miss Mitford.
17 Severn’s view of the matter some years afterwards has however received record in the diary of Henry Crabb Robinson. Under the date May 6, 1837, we read—“He [Severn] denies that Keats’s death was hastened by the article in the Quarterly.”
18 The passage which begins—
“Hard by
Stood serene Cupids watching silently”
has some affinity with a passage in Shelley’s “Adonais.” The latter passage is, however, more directly based upon one in the Idyll of Bion on Adonis.
19 I do not clearly understand from the poem whether Endymion does or does not know, until the story nears its conclusion, that the goddess who favours him is Diana. He appears at any rate to guess as much, either during this present interview or shortly afterwards.
20 Keats has been laughed at for ignorance in printing “Visit my Cytherea”; but it appears on good evidence that what he really wrote was “Visit thou my Cythera.” A false quantity in this same canto, “Nèptŭnus,” cannot be explained away.
21 Declared it in some very odd lines; for instance—
“Do gently murder half my soul, and I
Shall feel the other half so utterly!”
22 See p. 52 as to Miss Brawne.
23 I presume the “three masterpieces” are “The Eve of St. Agnes,” “Hyperion,” and “Lamia”; this leaves out of count the short “Belle Dame sans Merci,” and the unfinished “Eve of St. Mark,” but certainly not because Dante Rossetti rated those lower than the three others.
24 There are some various readings in this poem (as here, “wretched wight”); I adopt the phrases which I prefer.