- Author’s Note on Text and Style
- Abbreviations
- [List of] Illustrations*
- Introduction
- Sonnet Ventures: April 1814–April 1817
- “O Peace!”
- “Oh Chatterton!”
- Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison
- To Solitude
- To My Brother George
- “To one who has been long in city pent”
- “How many bards gild the lapses of time!”
- On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- “Keen, fitful gusts”
- To My Brothers
- “Great Spirits now on earth”
- “Written in disgust of vulgar superstition”
- On the Grasshopper and Cricket
- Sonnet (“After dark vapors”)
- To Haydon / With a Sonnet Written On seeing the Elgin Marbles
- On the Sea
- Poems and a “Long Poem”: March 1817–March 1818
- from Poems
- Dedication: To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
- from Sleep and Poetry: the ten-year plan
- a lovely tale of human life we’ll read
- O that I might know
- from Endymion: A Poetic Romance
- I. “with full happiness…I / will trace the story of Endymion”
- I. “fellowship divine”
- II. the Bower of Adonis
- II. “slippery blisses”
- III. Circe and Glaucus
- IV. “this Cave of Quietude”
- from Poems
- Training, Retraining, “New Romance”: December 1817–May 1818
- Song (“In drear nighted December”)
- To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat
- On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
- “O blush not so”
- “When I have fears that I may cease to be”
- To—— (“Time’s sea”)
- Sonnet / To the Nile
- Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus (“Blue!”)
- “the Thrush said”
- “Rantipole Betty, a dawlish fair”
- “Dear Reynolds”
- from Isabella; or, The Poet of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio
- Isabella’s Lover; Isabella’s Brothers
- Isabella’s Pot of Basil
- Sonnet / To Homer. 1818
- ode to Maia
- To the North, to the North: Summer 1818
- —On visiting the Tomb of Burns—
- a song about mys elf (“There was a naughty Boy”)
- To Ailsa Rock—
- Sonnet (“This mortal body”)
- Lines written in the highlands after a visit to Burns’s Country –
- Writing Ben Nevis
- “a little conversation…between the mountain and the Lady,…Mrs C—.”
- “a Sonnet I wrote on the top of Ben Nevis”
- Wide Venturing: Fall 1818–April 1819
- An Epic Fragment, A Roaming, A Romance, A Ballad
- from Hyperion. A Fragment
- Book I:
- “the shady sadness of a vale”
- Saturn and Thea
- “Blazing Hyperion…yet unsecure”
- Book III:
- “Apollo, the Father of all verse”
- Book I:
- Fancy
- The Eve of St. Agnes
- La belle dame sans merci and La Belle Dame sans Mercy
- Garlands of Their Own: Spring–Summer 1819
- “Why did I laugh to-night?”
- A dream, after reading Dante’s Episode of Paolo and Francesca
- On Fame and Another on Fame
- “Incipit Altera Sonneta” (“If by dull rhymes our english must be chaind”)
- Re: generating the Ode, Spring 1819
- Ode on Indolence
- Ode to Psyche
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode on Melancholy
- All I Live For: Last Poems, August 1819–Winter 1820
- from Lamia
- I: “Upon a time”
- I: “a gordian shape”
- I: Hermes and the nymph; She-serpent to woman’s form
- II: “What wreath?”
- II: found and wound
- from Lamia
- Ending, Unending
- from The Fall of Hyperion. A Dream
- Canto I:
- “for a sort of induction——”
- “Thou hast felt / What ’tis to die”
- Moneta’s globed brain
- Reliving Hyperion: no relief
- Canto I into Canto II:
- Hyperion at last, and once again
- Canto I:
- To Autumn
- Late Intimacies and Sonnets Still, Still Unstill
- Sonnet (1819): “I cry your mercy”
- “The day is gone”
- Sonnet to Sleep
- “Bright Star”
- “This living hand”
- from The Fall of Hyperion. A Dream
- Postscript
- Timelines
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * List of Illustrations
- 1. Title page, Poems, with Keats’s inscription to Wordsworth (1817).
- 2. Keats’s first draft of “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (1816).
- 3. Keats’s excited letter to Benjamin Robert Haydon, November 1816.
- 4. Detail from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem (1816–1819), with Keats and Wordsworth.
- 5. Keats’s manuscript, “Written in disgust of vulgar superstition” (August 1816).
- 6. Title page, Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818).
- 7. Keats’s draft, “In drear nighted December” (December 1817).
- 8. Keats’s draft, “On sitting down to read King Lear once again” (January 1818).
- 9. Keats’s emphatic cross-outs and inscribed comment on the Advertisement page at the front of the 1820 volume.
- 10. Page from Keats’s manuscript (February 1819) of The Eve of St. Agnes XXVI.
- 11. “La Belle Dame sans Mercy,” Indicator, 10 May 1820.
- 12. Keats’s letter-text: prologue and sonnet on his dream of Dante’s Paolo and Francesca in Hell (April 1819).
- 13. “Incipit Altera Sonneta,” assembled from two pages of a letter written in 1819.
- 14. Title page, 1820 volume, inscribed to F. B. (Fanny Brawne).
- 15. Keats’s draft of “Bright Star,” written in his copy of Shakespeare’s Poems (1819).
- 16. Keats’s manuscript of “This living hand.”
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