This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers
students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John
Keats (1795-1821). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this
authoritative edition enables students to study Keats's work
afresh, bringing his poetry and letters together in chronological
order. The backbone of this volume is provided by the poems
published in Keats's lifetime-the 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 Keats's writing was
seen only in manuscript, if at all, by Keats's friends and
family-the unpublished poems which include the dream vision, The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extensive biographical context provided by his unpublished poems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 twentieth-century and none of it known
to Keats's reading public, is now part of our understanding of his
life and work, and allows us to follow his extraordinary
intellectual, emotional, and artistic self-making in the three
short years between Poems (1817) and 1820. Explanatory notes and
commentary are included to enhance the study, understanding, and
enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction
to the life of Keats, and a Chronology.
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