Oxford University Press John Keats: Selected Writings Paperback Book

This volume in the 21stCentury Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John Keats (17951821). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Keatss work afresh, bringing his poetry and letters together in chronological order. The backbone of this volume is provided by the poems published in Keatss lifetimethe three volumes, Poems (1817), Endymion (1818), and Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820), together with the small number of poems he published elsewhere. But a much larger body of Keatss writing was seen only in manuscript, if at all, by Keatss friends and familythe unpublished poems which include the dream vision, The Fall of Hyperion, his annotations of Shakespeare and Milton, and, above all, his extraordinary letters. These are placed at the date on which they were written or at their probable date. This selection of poems, prose, and letters therefore creates a double time scheme. It places the poetry by which Keats was known to a frequently antagonistic reading public in his lifetime within the extensive biographical context provided by his unpublished poems and letters. This substantial body of manuscript evidence, some of it not discovered until the twentiethcentury and none of it known to Keatss reading public, is now part of our understanding of his life and work, and allows us to follow his extraordinary intellectual, emotional, and... | Oxford University Press John Keats: Selected Writings Paperback Book