Selected letters / John Keats ; edited by Robert Gittings ; revised, with a new introduction and notes, by Jon Mee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keats, John, 1795-1821.

Contributor:

Gittings, Robert.

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Keats, John, 1795-1821--Correspondence.

Keats, John.

Keats, John, 1795-1821.

Poets, English--19th century--Correspondence.

Poets, English.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xliii, 435 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development. According to T. S. Eliot, Keats's letters are "the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet." They represent one of the most sustained reflections on the poet's art we have from any of the major English poets. Yet quite apart from the light they throw on the poetry, they are great works of literature in their own right. Written with gusto and occasionally painful candor, they show a powerful intelligence struggling to come to terms with its own mortality. Sometimes bitterly jealous in love and socially and financially insecure, at others playful and confident of his own greatness, Keats interweaves his personal plight with the history of a Britain emerging from the long years of the Napoleonic Wars into a world of political unrest, profound social change, and commercial expansion.

Contents:

1816-1817

C. C. Clarke - 9 October 1816 3

C. C. Clarke - 31 October 4

B. R. Haydon - 20 November 4

J. H. Reynolds - 17 March 1817 4

George and Tom Keats - 15 April 5

J. H. Reynolds - 17, 18 April 7

Leigh Hunt - 10 May 10

B. R. Haydon - 10, 11 May 12

Taylor and Hessey - 16 May 16

J. H. Reynolds - September 17

Fanny Keats - 10 September 18

J. H. Reynolds - 21 September 21

B. R. Haydon - 28 September 25

Benjamin Bailey - 8 October 26

Benjamin Bailey - 28-30 October 28

Benjamin Bailey - 3 November 32

Benjamin Bailey - 22 November 35

J. H. Reynolds - 22 November 38

George and Tom Keats - 21, 27 (?) December 40

1818

George and Tom Keats - 5 January 43

B. R. Haydon - 10 January 46

George and Tom Keats - 13, 19 January 47

B. R. Haydon - 23 January 49

John Taylor - 23 January 50

Benjamin Bailey - 23 January 50

George and Tom Keats - 23, 24 January 53

John Taylor - 30 January 56

J. H. Reynolds - 3 February 57

George and Tom Keats - 14 February 59

J. H. Reynolds - 19 February 62

George and Tom Keats - 21 February 64

John Taylor - 27 February 66

Benjamin Bailey - 13 March 67

J. H. Reynolds - 14 March 70

James Rice - 24 March 72

J. H. Reynolds - 25 March 75

B. R. Haydon - 8 April 78

J. H. Reynolds - 9 April 80

J. H. Reynolds - 17 April 82

John Taylor - 24 April 82

J. H. Reynolds - 27 April 84

J. H. Reynolds - 3 May 86

Benjamin Bailey - 21, 25 May 91

Benjamin Bailey - 10 June 93

Tom Keats - 25-27 June 95

George and Georgiana Keats - 27, 28 June 97

Tom Keats - 29 June, 1, 2 July 100

Fanny Keats - 2, 3, 5 July 104

Tom Keats - 3, 5, 7, 9 July 110

J. H. Reynolds - 11, 13 July 113

Tom Keats - 10, 11, 13, 14 July 116

Tom Keats - 17, 18, 20, 21 July 121

Benjamin Bailey - 18, 22 July 127

Tom Keats - 23, 26 July 132

Tom Keats - 3, 6 August 137

Mrs James Wylie - 6 August 139

Fanny Keats - 19 August 141

C. W. Dilke - 20, 21 September 142

J. H. Reynolds - 22 (?) September 144

J. A. Hessey - 8 October 146

Fanny Keats - 26 October 147

Richard Woodhouse - 27 October 147

George and Georgiana Keats - 14, 16, 21, 24, 31 October 149

James Rice - 24 November 161

B. R. Haydon - 22 December 162

1819

George and Georgiana Keats - 16-18, 22, 29 (?), 31 December 1818, 2-4 January 1819 164

B. R. Haydon - 10 (?) January 185

Fanny Keats - 11 February 185

B. R. Haydon - 18 (?) February 186

Fanny Keats - 27 February 187

B. R. Haydon - 8 March 188

Fanny Keats - 13 March 189

Joseph Severn - 29 March 190

Fanny Keats - 31 March 191

Fanny Keats - 12 April 192

B. R. Haydon - 13 April 193

Fanny Keats - 1 May 195

George and Georgiana Keats - 14, 19 February, 3 (?), 12, 13, 17, 19 March, 15, 16, 21, 30 April, 3 May 196

Miss Jeffery - 31 May 239

Miss Jeffery - 9 June 240

Fanny Keats - 9 June 242

B. R. Haydon - 17 June 243

Fanny Keats - 17 June 244

Fanny Brawne - 1 July 1819 245

Fanny Keats - 6 July 246

Fanny Brawne - 8 July 248

J. H. Reynolds - 11 July 249

Fanny Brawne - 15 (?) July 250

Fanny Brawne - 25 July 252

C. W. Dilke - 31 July 253

Fanny Brawne - 5, 6 August 255

Benjamin Bailey - 14 August 257

Fanny Brawne - 16 August 258

John Taylor - 23 August 260

J. H. Reynolds - 24 August 262

Fanny Keats - 28 August 263

John Taylor - 31 August 265

J. A. Hessey - 5 September 266

John Taylor - 5 September 266

Fanny Brawne - 13 September 270

J. H. Reynolds - 21 September 271

Richard Woodhouse - 21, 22 September 273

Charles Brown - 22 September 278

C. W. Dilke - 22 September 280

Charles Brown - 23 September 282

George and Georgiana Keats - 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27 September 283

C. W. Dilke - 1 October 307

B. R. Haydon - 3 October 308

Fanny Brawne - 11 October 310

Fanny Brawne - 13 October 310

Fanny Brawne - 19 October 311

Fanny Keats - 26 (?) October 312

George and Georgiana Keats - 12 November 313

Joseph Severn - 15 November 315

John Taylor - 17 November 316

James Rice - December 317

Fanny Keats - 20 December 318

1820

Georgiana Wylie Keats - 13, 15, 17, 28 January 320

Fanny Brawne - 4 (?) February 327

Fanny Keats - 6 February 328

Fanny Keats - 8 February 329

Fanny Brawne - 10 (?) February 330

Fanny Brawne - February (?) 330

Fanny Keats - 14 February 331

Fanny Brawne - February (?) 331

Fanny Brawne - February (?) 332

James Rice - 14, 16 February 333

Fanny Brawne - February (?) 334

Fanny Brawne - February (?) 335

Fanny Brawne - 24 (?) February 336

Fanny Brawne - 27 (?) February 336

J. H. Reynolds - 28 February 337

Fanny Brawne - 29 (?) February 338

Fanny Brawne - 1 March (?) 338

C. W. Dilke - 4 March 339

Fanny Brawne - March (?) 340

Fanny Brawne - March (?) 341

Fanny Brawne - March (?) 342

Fanny Keats - 20 March 343

Fanny Brawne - March (?) 343

Mrs James Wylie - 24 (?) March 344

Fanny Keats - 1 April 345

Fanny Keats - 12 April 345

Fanny Keats - 21 April 346

Fanny Keats - 4 May 347

Fanny Brawne - May (?) 348

Fanny Brawne - May (?) 349

Fanny Brawne - June (?) 351

John Taylor - 11 (?) June 353

Charles Brown - About 21 June 353

Fanny Keats - 23 June 1820 355

Fanny Brawne - 25 June (?) 355

Fanny Brawne - 4 July (?) 355

Fanny Keats - 5 July 356

Fanny Keats - 22 July 356

Fanny Brawne - August (?) 357

Fanny Keats - 13 August 358

John Taylor - 13 August 359

Leigh Hunt - 13 (?) August 360

Charles Brown - 14 August 360

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 16 August 361

Charles Brown - August (?) 362

Fanny Keats - 23 August 363

Fanny Keats - 11 September 364

Charles Brown - 30 September 364

Frances Ricketts Brawne - 24 (?) October 366

Charles Brown - 1 November 367

Charles Brown - 30 November 369.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0192840533

OCLC:

48932493