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in all; and these are given with the transcribed poetry in full, set in the same large type as the body of the letters, for easy reference, their textual value being considerable.

76. Literary Anecdotes of the Ninteenth Century: Contributions towards a Literary History of the Period Volume II. Edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A., LL.D., and Thomas T. Wise London: Hodder & Stoughton ... MDCCCXCVI. In an article about Keats appear the 66 nonsense sonnet" at page 291 of this edition and a fac-simile of the manuscript of the sonnet to Miss Wylie.

77. The Poetical Works of John Keats... Edited by H. Buxton Forman... Sixth Edition with Seven Portraits and Ten other Illustrations London...Reeves and Turner...1898.

This is a new edition of No. 59, illustrated and brought up to date. The seventh edition is a reprint of it. 78. Keats' Hyperion Mit Einleitung herausgegeben von Johannes Hoops... Berlin Verlag von Emil Felber 1899 [one volume, crown 8vo.].

This little book is No. 3 in a series, namely the "Englische Textbibliothek Herausgegeben von Johannes Hoops a. o. Professor an der Universität von Heidelberg." 79. The Complete Works of John Keats in Five Volumes ...Edited by H. Buxton Forman...Gowans & Gray Glasgow... 1900-1901 Agent for London R. Brimley Johnson...[foolscap 8vo.].

In this edition the Library editions of 1883 and 1889 were brought up to date, new material being published and all manuscript Sources discovered in the interim being used. The collations and notes variorum are as minute and literal as those of the Library editions; but the appended matter, not quite so voluminous, is scattered through the volumes beneath or between the poems, letters, &c.; a memoir is prefixed to the poetry; and a series of brief biographical notes on Keats's relations, friends, and correspondents stands before the letters.

80. The Monthly Review No. 30. Mar. 1903. John Murray.

London:

Contains an article by Professor Colvin on the Nightingale ode with fac-simile of manuscript.

81. Illustrated Catalogue of Unique Grangerized Books Rare MSS. of Keats Original Drawings...On Sale by Henry Sotheran & Co.... London... 1904.

82. Hyperion A Facsimile of Keats's Autograph Manuscript with a Transliteration of the Manuscript of The Fall of Hyperion a Dream with Introductions and Notes by Ernest de Sélincourt Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1905.

This large folio volume is very valuable from a critical point of view. The "Transliteration" is a printed text literally given, not from Keats's manuscript but from a copy of it made by two of Richard Woodhouse's clerks: the original has not yet been found.

83. The Poems of John Keats edited with an Introduction and Notes by E. de Sélincourt with a frontispiece in photoMethuen and Co. ... London [1905]. gravure

The introductions and notes are particularly valuable and interesting. Mr. de Sélincourt goes much more exhaustively into the sources of Keats's language than ever the late Mr. William Thomas Arnold did.

84. The Bookman Keats Double Number [for October 1906] London: Hodder & Stoughton, Warwick Square, E.C.

This contains, among other original material relating to Keats, mechanical reproductions of the Sonnet to Spenser, the Sonnet beginning "The day is gone," and a hitherto unknown passage of The Eve of St. Mark.

CHRONOLOGY OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS COMPOSITIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS

1795. John Keats's birth in Finsbury, October 31.

1797. Birth of his brother George, Spring.

1798. Birth of his brother Thomas, November 18.

1803. Birth of his sister, June 3.

1804. Death of his father, April 16.

1807. Death of his mother.

1803-9. Is educated at Mr. Clarke's school, Enfield. Begins translating THE ENEID.

1809. Apprenticed to Thomas Hammond, Surgeon. Finishes translating THE ÆNEID.

1812. Writes IMITATION OF SPENSER.

Rupture with Hammond.

1813. Introduced to Severn.

1815. Writes ODE and HYMN TO APOLLO.

Writes EPISTLE TO GEORGE FELTON MATHEW,
November.

1816. First published poem appears in The Examiner, May 5Addresses a sonnet to Charles Wells, June.

Writes the Chapman's Homer Sonnet.

Writes EPISTLE TO GEORGE KEATS, August.

Writes EPISTLE TO CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE,
September.

Introduced to Haydon, November.

Contemplates the subject of ENDYMION and writes "I stood tip-toe upon a little hill."

1817. First volume of POEMS published, early.

ENDYMION begun, Spring.

Stays in the Isle of Wight, April, and Margate, May.
Visits Benjamin Bailey at Oxford, September.
Stays at Leatherhead, November.

Draft of ENDYMION finished at Burford Bridge,
November 28.

Sees Kean's return to the public and criticizes it in
The Champion, December.

1817-18. Winters at Hampstead.

1818. Book I of ENDYMION sent to press, January.

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Seeing a good deal" of Wordsworth, January.

Joins his brothers at Teignmouth, March.

Revision of ENDYMION finished, March.
ENDYMION published, April.

ISABELLA, OR THE POT OF BASIL, finished by April 27.
FRAGMENT OF AN ODE TO MAIA written, May 1.
Returns to Hampstead, May.

Departure of George Keats and his bride for America,
June.

Visits the Lakes with Brown, June.

Scotch tour with Brown, July and August.

A flying visit to Ireland, July.

A violent cold caught in the Isle of Mull, July.
"Cockney School" attack in Blackwood's Magazine
published, August.

Returns to Hampstead, August.

Return of sore throat, September.

Attack in The Quarterly Review published, September.
At Well Walk, Hampstead, September to December.
First meeting with Fanny Brawne, October or
November.

Thomas Keats dies and John moves to Wentworth
Place to live with Brown, December.
Sore throat again, December.

1818-19. HYPERION begun, Winter.

1819. Stays at Chichester and Bedhampton, January.
THE EVE OF ST. AGNES written, January.
Returns to Wentworth Place, February.
Persistent sore throat, February.

ODE TO PSYCHE written, April.

Probably engaged to Fanny Brawne, April.

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI written, April-May.

ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE composed, May.

Throat still sore in June and July.

Visits the Isle of Wight with James Rice, July.

ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE published, July.

Writes LAMIA, Part I, and OTHO THE GREAT, Act I,
July.

Removes with Brown to Winchester, August.

OTHO THE GREAT finished, HYPERION continued,
August.

1819. Flying visit to London and return to Winchester,

September.

TO AUTUMN Composed, HYPERION abandoned, LAMIA
finished, THE EVE OF ST. AGNES revised, September.
Resolves to work for periodicals, September.

Returns to Hampstead to winter, October.
Leaves off animal food, October.

Throat in a threatening state again, December. 1820. ODE ON A GRECIAN URN published, January. Fatal illness commences, February 3.

Keats and Brown finally part at Gravesend, May 7.
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI published in The
Indicator, May 10.

Fragment of THE CAP AND BELLS written, June (?).
LAMIA, ISABELLA &c. published, first week in July.
Stays at Kentish Town near and with Hunt, June-
July.

Fresh attack of blood-spitting, June 22.

Returns to Wentworth Place to be nursed by Mrs. and
Miss Brawne, August.

Sails for Italy with Severn, September.

His last Sonnet, written on board ship.

Writes his last letter from Rome, November.

1821. His death, February 23, and burial near the tomb of Caius Cestius, February 26.

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