Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscriptsKeats, John
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Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts
Keats, John
Brawne, Fanny, 1800-1865 -- Correspondence; Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Correspondence; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence
Finally, it remains to supply an omission which I find it hard to account
for. In Medwin’s Life of Shelley occur some important extracts about
Keats, seeming to emanate from Fanny Brawne. In 1877 I learnt from the
lady’s family that Medwin’s mysteriously introduced correspondent was
no other than she. Indeed I had actually cut the relative portion of
Medwin’s book out for use in this Introduction; but by some inexplicable
oversight I omitted even to refer to it; and it remained for Professor
Colvin to call attention to it. I now gladly follow his lead in citing
words which have a direct bearing upon the vexed question of the
appreciation of Keats by her whom he loved; and, in the appendix to the
present edition, the passage in question will be found.
H. BUXTON FORMAN.
46 MARLBOROUGH HILL, ST. JOHN’S WOOD, _November, 1888_.
CORRECTIONS.
Page xxxi, line 6 from foot, for _does_ read _did_.
Page 16, end of foot-note 3, add _or perhaps a dog_.
Page 18, there should be a foot-note to the effect that _Meleager_ in
line 6 is written _Maleager_ in the original.
Page 73, end of foot-note, strike out the words _of which period there
are still indications in Letter XXVIII_.
Page 94, line 2 of note, for _in_ read _on_.
Page 95, line 2 of notes, for 1819 read 1820.
Page 96, line 3 of note, for 1819 read 1820.
LETTERS TO FANNY BRAWNE.
I TO IX.
SHANKLIN, WINCHESTER, WESTMINSTER.
[Illustration: Fanny Brawne from a silhouette by Mons^r Edouart.]
I-IX.
SHANKLIN, WINCHESTER, WESTMINSTER.
I.
Shanklin, Isle of Wight, Thursday.
[_Postmark_, Newport, 3 July, 1819.]
My dearest Lady,
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