Keats, John, 1795-1821; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography
13. The Poetical Works of John Keats, chronologically arranged and edited,
with a memoir, by Lord Houghton [Aldine edition of the British Poets].
London, 1876.
14. Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne, with Introduction and Notes by
Harry Buxton Forman. London, 1878.
A biographer cannot ignore these letters now that they are published: but
their publication must be regretted by all who hold that human respect and
delicacy are due to the dead no less than to the living, and to genius no
less than to obscurity.
15. The Poetical Works and other Writings of John Keats. Edited with notes
and appendices by Harry Buxton Forman. 4 vols., London, 1883.
In this edition, besides the texts reprinted from the first editions, all
the genuine letters and additional poems published in 3, 6, 9, 13, and 14
of the above are brought together, as well as most of the biographical
notices contained in 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, and 12: also a series of
previously unpublished letters of Keats to his sister: with a great amount
of valuable illustrative and critical material besides. Except for a few
errors, which I shall have occasion to point out, Mr Forman's work might
for the purpose of the student be final, and I have necessarily been
indebted to it at every turn.
16. The Letters and Poems of John Keats. Edited by John Gilmer Speed. 3
vols., New York, 1883.
17. The Poetical Works of John Keats. Edited by William T. Arnold. London,
1884.
The Introduction to this edition contains the only attempt with which I am
acquainted at an analysis of the formal elements of Keats's style.
18. An Æsculapian Poet--John Keats: an article by Dr B. W. Richardson in
the _Asclepiad_ for 1884 (vol. i. p. 134).
19. Notices and correspondence concerning Keats which have appeared at
intervals during a number of years in the _Athenæum_.
In addition to printed materials I have made use of the following
unprinted, viz.:--
I. HOUGHTON MSS. Under this title I refer to the contents of an album from
the library at Fryston Hall, in which the late Lord Houghton bound up a
quantity of the materials he had used in the preparation of the _Life and
Letters_, as well as of correspondence concerning Keats addressed to him
both before and after the publication of his book. The chief contents are
the manuscript memoir of Keats by Charles Brown, which was offered by the
writer in vain to _Galignani_, and I believe other publishers; transcripts
by the same hand of a few of Keats's poems; reminiscences or brief memoirs
of the poet by his friends Charles Cowden Clarke (the first draft of the
paper above cited as no. 10), Henry Stephens, George Felton Mathew, Joseph
Severn, and Benjamin Bailey; together with letters from all the above,
from John Hamilton Reynolds, and several others. For the use of this
collection, without which my work must have been attempted to little
purpose, I am indebted to the kindness of its owner, the present Lord
Houghton.
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