This collection gathers poems John Keats published in 1820, including narrative pieces and odes. His musical, sensory verse explores beauty, love, transience, and mortality. Listening offers a slow, rich encounter with Romantic imagination.
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Transcriber's Note: A Greek word that may not display correctly in all browsers is transliterated in the text using a popup like this: βιβλος. Position your mouse over the word to see the transliteration. Click on the page number in the right margin to see an image of the original page. Line numbers are linked to the Notes section where applicable. Click on the line number to see the notes. See the end of the text for a more detailed transcriber's note. KEATS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1820
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND
NOTES BY
M. ROBERTSON
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1909
PREFACE.
The text of this edition is a reprint (page for page and line for line) of a copy of the 1820 edition in the British Museum. For convenience of reference line-numbers have been added; but this is the only change, beyond the correction of one or two misprints.
The books to which I am most indebted for the material used in the
Introduction and Notes are The Poems of John Keats with an
Introduction and Notes by E. de Sélincourt, Life of Keats (English Men of Letters Series) by Sidney Colvin, and Letters of John Keats edited by
Sidney Colvin. As a pupil of Dr. de Sélincourt I also owe him special gratitude for his inspiration and direction of my study of Keats, as
well as for the constant help which I have received from him in the preparation of this edition.
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