Keats: Poems Published in 1820

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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 Selincourt, _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 Selincourt 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.
                                                            M. R.




CONTENTS


                                                             PAGE
PREFACE                                                        ii

LIFE OF KEATS                                                   v

ADVERTISEMENT                                                   2

LAMIA. PART I                                                   3

LAMIA. PART II                                                 27

ISABELLA; OR, THE POT OF BASIL.  A STORY FROM BOCCACCIO        47

THE EVE OF ST. AGNES                                           81

ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE                                          107

ODE ON A GRECIAN URN                                          113

ODE TO PSYCHE                                                 117

FANCY                                                         122

ODE ['Bards of Passion and of Mirth']                         128

LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN                                   131

ROBIN HOOD. TO A FRIEND                                       133

TO AUTUMN                                                     137

ODE ON MELANCHOLY                                             140

HYPERION. BOOK I                                              145

HYPERION. BOOK II                                             167

HYPERION. BOOK III                                            191

  NOTE ON ADVERTISEMENT                                       201

INTRODUCTION TO LAMIA                                         201

  NOTES ON LAMIA                                              203

INTRODUCTION TO ISABELLA AND THE EVE OF ST. AGNES             210

  NOTES ON ISABELLA                                           215

  NOTES ON THE EVE OF ST. AGNES                               224

INTRODUCTION TO THE ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, ODE ON A GRECIAN
  URN, ODE ON MELANCHOLY, AND TO AUTUMN                       229

  NOTES ON ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE                               232

  NOTES ON ODE ON A GRECIAN URN                               235

INTRODUCTION TO ODE TO PSYCHE                                 236

  NOTES ON ODE TO PSYCHE                                      237

INTRODUCTION TO FANCY                                         238

  NOTES ON FANCY                                              238

  NOTES ON ODE ['Bards of Passion and of Mirth']              239

INTRODUCTION TO LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN                   239

  NOTES ON LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN                        239

INTRODUCTION TO ROBIN HOOD                                    240

  NOTES ON ROBIN HOOD                                         241

  NOTES ON 'TO AUTUMN'                                        242

  NOTES ON ODE ON MELANCHOLY                                  243

INTRODUCTION TO HYPERION                                      244

  NOTES ON HYPERION                                           249




LIFE OF KEATS


Of all the great poets of the early nineteenth century--Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats--John Keats was the last born
and the first to die. The length of his life was not one-third that of
Wordsworth, who was born twenty-five years before him and outlived him
by twenty-nine.