Sir Sidney Colvin (1845-1927) was the obvious choice to write a
book on John Keats (1795-1821) for the first series of English Men
of Letters. At various times Slade Professor of Fine Art at
Cambridge, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and Keeper of Prints
and Drawings at the British Museum, Colvin had a long-standing
interest in the poet, publishing an edition of his letters to
family and friends in 1891, and later writing a longer biography,
published in 1917. This introduction to the poet, which used print
and manuscript sources not available to earlier biographers, was
first published in 1887. In his preface, Colvin admits that 'I have
not attempted to avoid saying over again much that in substance has
been said already, and better, by others ... I hope to have
contributed something of my own towards a fuller understanding both
of Keats's art and life'.
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