LAMIA,

ISABELLA,

THE EVE OF ST. AGNES,

AND

OTHER POEMS.

BY JOHN KEATS,

AUTHOR OF ENDYMION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND HESSEY,

FLEET-STREET.

1820.

LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS

CONSULTED

THIS List is not meant for a complete Keats bibliography; but, as it has been necessary to consult a considerable number of books &c., it seems desirable to supplement, by means of such a list, the information given in the Preface as to the sources of this edition. Keats's three volumes published in his life-time, in 1817, 1818, and 1820, do not head the list, as their title-pages immediately precede it, and each volume is fully described in the Introduction. No second edition of the Poems, Endymion, or Lamia, &c., was published during the poet's life: hence the sources of" various readings" are either manuscripts or prints occurring in periodical and other works not by Keats.

1. Annals of the Fine Arts, for MDCCCXVI... London... Sherwood, Neely, and Jones... 1817.

2. Annals of the Fine Arts, for MDCCCXVII... London ... 1818.

3. Annals of the Fine Arts, for MDCCCXVIII ... London... 1819.

4. Annals of the Fine Arts, for MDCCCXIX ... London ... 1820.

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5. Annals of the Fine Arts, for MDCCCXX London ... 1820.

These five octavo volumes were edited by James Elmes; but the ruling spirit and chief contributor to the work was Haydon, although Keats, Wordsworth, Hazlitt, Lamb, and Southey, all figure in its pages. Three numbers appeared in 1816, four each in 1817, 1818, and 1819, and two in 1820,-seventeen in all. The Nightingale and Grecian Urn odes made their first appearance here; and the Elgin Marbles sonnets were reprinted by Elmes from The Examiner. One of Haydon's many fine dissertations, that, namely, on Visconti's mistake as to the action of the Ilissus in the Elgin collection, appeared as an octavo pamphlet in French, so determined was the learned painter to make his voice heard throughout Europe on this subject.

KEATS

6. Erreur de Visconti relative a l'Action de la Statue de l'Ilissus dans la collection d'Elgin, au Museum Britannique Par B. R. Haydon, Peintre d'Histoire. Londres: Imprimé par Bulmer et Cie. Cleveland-Row, St. James's. 1819.

7. Foliage; or Poems original and translated, by Leigh Hunt.... London ... Ollier ... 1818 [one volume foolscap 8vo.].

The copy consulted (penes me) was Keats's. It is inscribed on the title-page, in Hunt's writing, "John

Keats from his affectionate friend the Author.'

8. The Literary Pocket-Book; or, Companion for the Lover of Nature and Art. 1819. (To be continued annually.) London ... Ollier, Vere-Street, . (where communications will be received.)... [1818].

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9. The Literary Pocket-Book... 1820 ... London [1819]. 10. The Literary Pocket-Book... 1821 ... London [1820]. 11. The Literary Pocket-Book... 1822 ... London [1821]. 12. The Literary Pocket-Book ... 1823... London [1822]. 13. Adonais An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy B. Shelley...Pisa with the Types of Didot MDCCCXXI. [quarto pamphlet].

14. The Indicator By Leigh Hunt.... London:...Appleyard ... 1822 [two volumes, 8vo.].

In the number for May 10th 1820, page 248, appeared for the first time, signed “Caviare," La Belle Dame sans Mercy.

15. Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries; with Recollections of the Author's Life, and of his Visit to Italy. By Leigh Hunt... London ... Colburn... 1828 [one volume, quarto].

16. Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries... Second Edition. In two volumes [8vo.]... London... Colburn... 1828.

17. Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. by Percy B. Shelley.... Cambridge...Gee & Bridges...MDCCCXXIX. [8vo. pamphlet].

18. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in one volume [royal 8vo.]. Paris... Galignani... 1829.

19. Leigh Hunt's London Journal. To Assist the Inquir ing, Animate the Struggling, and Sympathize with All.... London... Knight... 1834 and 1835 [two volumes, folio].

20. Smith's Standard Library. The Poetical Works of John Keats. London... MDCCCXL [one volume, royal 8vo.].

21. The Poetical Works of John Keats. London ... Smith... MDCCCXLI [one volume, foolscap 8vo.].

22. The Philosophy of Mystery. By Walter Cooper Dendy, Fellow and Honorary Librarian of the Medical Society of London: Senior Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary for Children, &c., &c. London... Longmans... 1841 [one

volume, 8vo.].

23. Imagination and Fancy; or Selections from the English Poets, illustrative of those First Requisites of their Art; with Markings of the best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writings, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?" By Leigh Hunt... London... Smith, Elder and Co.... 1844 [one volume, crown 8vo.].

24. Imagination and Fancy... Third Edition ... 1852.

25. The Poetical Works of John Keats. A New Edition. London... Moxon ... MDCCCXLVII.

This little pocket edition (folding in twelves) is dated 1846 on the printed wrapper.

26. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. By Thomas Medwin. In Two Volumes [crown 8vo.] ... London Newby. 1847.

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66

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The copy used (penes me) is profusely corrected and annotated by Medwin, and is described by him as corrected for a new edition just about to appear"; but it has certainly not been handled as copy" by a printer; and I am unable to ascertain that any such edition as was thus prepared by the author ever really appeared.

27. Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats. Edited by Richard Monckton Milnes. In Two Volumes [foolscap 8vo.]... London ... Moxon ... 1848.

The particular copy used in preparing the Library edition was one in Sir Charles Dilke's collection, largely annotated in manuscript by his grandfather, Charles Wentworth Dilke, the friend of Keats. As Sir Charles allowed me to copy the whole of the notes, I have been able to refer to them again whenever necessary in preparing subsequent editions.

28. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt; with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries... In Three Volumes [crown 8vo.]... London: Smith, Elder and Co.... 1850.

29. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt... A New Edition, Revised by the Author; with further Revision, and an Introduction, by his Eldest Son [Thornton Hunt] ... London: Smith, Elder and Co.... MDCCCLX [one volume, crown 8vo.].

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