Contents. The Texts of Keats s Poetry and Prose. xi xiv xvii xxi. Introduction A Note on the Text Abbreviations Acknowledgments

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1 Contents Introduction A Note on the Text Abbreviations Acknowledgments xi xiv xvii xxi The Texts of Keats s Poetry and Prose BEFORE POEMS (1817) 3 On Peace 3 Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles s Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing 3 [Fill for me a brimming bowl] 4 Sonnet [As from the darkening gloom a silver dove] 5 Sonnet. To Lord Byron 5 Sonnet. To Chatterton. 6 Ode to Apollo. 6 [Give me women, wine and snuff] 8 Sonnet [Oh! how I love, on a fair summer s eve] 8 Letter to C. C. Clarke, October 9, George Felton Mathew To A Poetical Friend 10 Leigh Hunt Young Poets 11 Sonnet. Written in disgust of vulgar superstition 14 Sonnet. [After dark vapors have oppress d our plains] 15 POEMS (1817) 17 Dedication. To Leigh Hunt, Esq. 20 Poems: [I stood tip-toe upon a little hill] 21 Specimen of an Induction to a Poem. 27 Calidore. A Fragment. 28 To Some Ladies. 32 On receiving a curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the same Ladies. 33 To **** [Hadst thou liv d in days of old] 34 To Hope. 36 Imitation of Spenser. 38 [Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain] 39 Epistles: To George Felton Mathew. 40 To My Brother George. 43 To Charles Cowden Clarke. 46 Sonnets: I. To My Brother George. 49 v

2 vi Contents II. To ****** [Had I a man s fair form, then might my sighs] 50 III. Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison. 50 IV. [How many bards gild the lapses of time] 51 V. To a Friend who sent me some Roses. 51 VI. To G. A. W. 52 VII. [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell] 52 VIII. To My Brothers. 53 IX. [Keen, fitful gusts are whisp ring here and there] 53 X. [To one who has been long in city pent] 54 XI. On first looking into Chapman s Homer. 54 XII. On leaving some Friends at an early Hour. 55 XIII. Addressed to Haydon. 55 XIV. Addressed to the Same. 56 XV. On the Grasshopper and Cricket. 57 XVI. To Kosciusko. 57 XVII. [Happy is England! I could be content] 58 Sleep and Poetry. 58 BETWEEN POEMS (1817) AND ENDYMION (1818) 69 To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown. 69 On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt 69 To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crowned 70 Ode to Apollo [God of the golden bow] 70 Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer s Tale of The Floure and the Leafe. [This pleasant Tale is like a little Copse] 72 To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles 72 On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 73 John Hamilton Reynolds Champion Review of Poems 73 On a Picture of Leander. [On a Leander which Miss Reynolds my kind friend gave me] 75 On Leigh Hunt s Poem, The Story of Rimini. 76 Letter to J. H. Reynolds, April 17, 18, Sonnet. On the Sea. 79 Lines. [Unfelt, unheard, unseen] 79 [You say you love; but with a voice] 80 Letter to Leigh Hunt, May 10, Letter to B. R. Haydon, May 10, 11, Letter to J. H. Reynolds, September 21, Leigh Hunt To the Grasshopper and the Cricket 90 Josiah Conder Review of Poems 90 Anonymous Review in Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany, October Letter to Benjamin Bailey, October 8, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 3, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 22, [Before he went to feed with owls and bats] 104 Stanzas. [In drear-nighted December] 105 Mr. Kean 105 Letter to George and Tom Keats, December 21, 27?,

3 Contents vii Letter to George and Tom Keats, January 5, Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton s Hair. 113 Sonnet. On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again. 114 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, January 23, Letter to George and Tom Keats, January 23, 24, [When I have fears that I may cease to be] 118 Song. [O blush not so! O blush not so!] 119 [Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port] 120 [God of the Meridian] 120 Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 3, Fragment. [Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow] 123 Sonnet. [Life s sea hath been five times at its slow ebb] 124 Sonnet. To the Nile. 124 [Spenser, a jealous honorer of thine] 125 Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus: [Blue! Tis the life of heaven, the domain] 126 Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 19, [O thou whose face hath felt the Winter s wind] 128 Letter to John Taylor, February 27, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, March 13, The Human Seasons. [Four seasons fill the measure of the year] 132 [Where be ye going, you Devon maid] 132 [Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed] 133 Letter to B. R. Haydon, April 8, Letter to J. H. Reynolds, April 9, To J. R. 140 Letter to John Taylor, April 24, ENDYMION (1818) 143 BETWEEN ENDYMION (1818) AND LAMIA, ISABELLA, THE EVE OF ST. AGNES, AND OTHER POEMS (1820) 241 [Mother of Hermes! and still youthful Maia!] 241 To Homer. 241 Letter to J. H. Reynolds, May 3, John Hamilton Reynolds? Review of Endymion 246 Anonymous British Critic Review of Endymion 249 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, June 10, Letter to Tom Keats, June 25 27, [Give me your patience, sister, while I frame] 253 On Visiting the Tomb of Burns. 254 Meg Merrilies. A Ballad, written for the amusement of his young sister 255 Letter to Tom Keats, July 3, 5, 7, 9, Sonnet to Ailsa Rock 258 Sonnet. [This mortal body of a thousand days] 259 The Gadfly [All gentle folks who owe a grudge] 259 [Of late two dainties were before me placed] 261 Lines Written in the Scotch Highlands. [There is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain] 262 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, July 18, 22,

4 viii Contents [Not Aladdin magian] 266 Sonnet, Written on the Summit of Ben Nevis [Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud] 268 Stanzas on Some Skulls in Beauley Abbey, Inverness. 268 Z. Review of Endymion in Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine 272 John Wilson Croker Review of Endymion in Quarterly Review 277 [Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies] 280 Letter to C. W. Dilke, September 20, 21, Modern Love. [And what is love? It is a doll dress d up] 282 J.S. Letter [Responding to the Quarterly Review s Attack on Keats] 283 John Hamilton Reynolds Review of Endymion 284 Letter to J. A. Hessey, October 8, From Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, October 14, 16, 21, 24, 31, Letter to Richard Woodhouse, October 27, Fragment. [Where s the Poet? Show him! show him!] 296 Song. [I had a dove, and the sweet dove died] 296 Song [Hush, hush, tread softly! hush, hush, my dear] 296 From Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, December 16 18, 22, 29?, 31, 1818, January 2 4, The Eve of Saint Mark. 307 From Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, February 14, 19, March 3?, 12, 13, 17, 19, April 15, 16, 21, 30, May 3, Letter to B. R. Haydon, March 8, [Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell] 333 Ode on Indolence. 334 A Dream, After Reading Dante s Episode of Paulo and Francesca 336 Sonnet. [Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art!] 337 La Belle Dame Sans Merci 338 Song of Four Fairies 343 Sonnet. To Sleep. 346 On Fame [Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy] 346 On Fame [How fever d is the man, who cannot look] 347 [If by dull rhymes our English must be chain d] 347 Letter to Mary-Ann Jeffery, June 9, Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 1, Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 8, Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 15?, Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 25, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, August 14, Richard Woodhouse From Letter to John Taylor, September 19, 20, [Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes] 357 Letter to J. H. Reynolds, September 21, Letter to C. W. Dilke, September 22, From Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, September 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, Letter to Fanny Brawne, October 13, Letter to John Taylor, November 17, Sonnet. [The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!] 374

5 Contents ix To. [What can I do to drive away] 375 To Fanny. 376 [This living hand, now warm and capable] 378 The Cap and Bells; or, The Jealousies. A Faëry Tale. Unfinished. [The Jealousies: A Faery Tale, by Lucy Vaughan Lloyd of China Walk, Lambeth] 378 [In after time, a sage of mickle lore] 403 Letter to Fanny Brawne, February? Letter to Fanny Brawne, February 27?, Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 28, Letter to Fanny Brawne, March? Letter to Fanny Brawne, May? Letter to Fanny Brawne, June? Letter to Fanny Brawne, June? LAMIA, ISABELLA, THE EVE OF ST. AGNES, AND OTHER POEMS (1820) 409 Lamia. 412 Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio. 429 The Eve of St. Agnes. 445 Ode to a Nightingale. 456 Ode on a Grecian Urn. 460 Ode to Psyche. 463 Fancy. 465 Ode. [Bards of Passion and of Mirth] 468 Lines on the Mermaid Tavern. 469 Robin Hood. 470 To Autumn. 472 Ode on Melancholy. 473 Hyperion. A Fragment. 475 LAST WRITINGS 497 The Fall of Hyperion A Dream 497 Leigh Hunt [with Keats] A Now, Descriptive of a Hot Day 510 Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 5?, Charles Lamb Review of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems. 515 Percy Bysshe Shelley Letter to Keats, July 27, Letter to Fanny Brawne, August? Leigh Hunt Review of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems 518 Letter to Leigh Hunt, August 13?, Leigh Hunt Letter to Keats, August 13, Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, August 16, Josiah Conder Review of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems 525 Leigh Hunt Farewell to Keats 529 Letter to Charles Brown, September 30, Letter to Mrs. Brawne, October 24, Letter to Charles Brown, November 1, 2, Letter to Charles Brown, November 30,

6 x Contents Criticism 535 Paul de Man [The Negative Path] 537 Marjorie Levinson Keats s Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style 547 Grant F. Scott Keats in His Letters 555 Margaret Homans Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats 563 Nicholas Roe Lisping Sedition: Poems, Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent 573 Stuart Sperry The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds 583 Neil Fraistat Lamia Progressing: Keats s 1820 Volume 592 Jack Stillinger The Hoodwinking of Madeline: Skepticism in The Eve of St. Agnes 604 Jeffrey N. Cox Cockney Classicism: History with Footnotes 614 James Chandler An 1819 Temper : Keats and the History of Psyche 625 Alan Bewell To Autumn and the Curing of Space 634 Andrew Bennett The Hyperion Poems 643 John Keats: A Chronology 653 Selected Bibliography 661 Index 667

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