Selected letters of John Keats / edited by Grant F. Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keats, John, 1795-1821.

Contributor:

Scott, Grant F.

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Keats, John, 1795-1821--Correspondence.

Keats, John.

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

Poets, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Summary:

"The letters of John Keats are, T.S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably." "Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It also offers a revealing look at his "posthumous existence," the period of Keats's illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keat's deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr. James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse - omitted from other selections of Keats's letters - offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man."--Jacket.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Editorial procedures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Further reading

Events in the life of John Keats

Keats’s correspondents

1816–1817

1818

1819

1820

1821

Index

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: The letters of John Keats, 1814-1821. 1958.

"Based on the texts of Hyder Edward Rollins."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674264991

0674264991

9780674039391

0674039394

OCLC:

436295241