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THE
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HUNTING FOR
JOHN KEATS & THE EVE OF ST. AGNES
VERSION OF "THE EVE OF ST. AGNES"
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Hunting for John Keats and
"The Eve of St. Agnes" |
As you trace the work
of John Keats, published from the 1820s through 1898, you begin to gain an
understanding of the growth and appreciation of his poetry.
This list is limited to published volumes, essays or
publications pertained to, or including "The Eve of St,
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Agnes". This is not a
conclusive list of his published work, for these are only
the volumes we were able to locate. It also includes only
those published on or before 1896, leading up to the
"The Eve of St. Agnes" published by
the Auvergne Press. |
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1820s
1830s
1840s 1850s
1860s 1870s
1880s 1890s
1900s
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Date |
Title |
Commentator |
Publisher/Publication |
City |
Illustrator |
1815 |
The Feast of the Poets, With
Other Pieces of Verse |
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Gale and Fenner |
London |
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1820 |
Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of
St. Agnes, and Other Poems. |
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Taylor and Hessey |
London |
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1820 |
The Edinburgh Monthly
Review. |
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July Issue |
Edinburgh |
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1820 |
Review of "Lamia.
Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes." |
Jeffrey |
August Issue |
Edinburgh |
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1821 |
Adonais. An
Elegy on the Death of John Keats.(1821, 1886,
1891) |
Percy B. Shelley |
Percy B. Shelley |
Pisa, Italy |
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1820 - 1822 |
The Stories of Lamia,
(Isabella or) The pot of Basil, The Eve of St. Agnes, &c. As told by Mr. Keats |
Hunt |
The Indicator No. 43 (2
August 1820) |
London |
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1829 |
The Poetical Works of
Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes |
Redding |
A. and W. Galignani |
Paris |
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Date |
Title |
Commentator |
Publisher/Publication |
City |
Illustrator |
1831 |
The Poetical Works of
Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes (1831, 1838) |
Redding |
J. Griggs |
Philadelphia |
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1832 |
The Poetical Works of
Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes |
Redding |
J. Griggs |
Philadelphia |
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1835 |
Hunt's Essay on The
Eve of St. Agnes |
Hunt |
Leigh
Hunt's London Journal, 1/21/35 |
London |
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1836 |
The Poetical Works of
Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes
(BC) |
Redding |
Desilver, Thomas & Co. |
Philadelphia |
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1838 |
The Poetical Works of
Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes (1831, 1838) |
Redding |
Thomas, Cowperthwait &
Co. |
Philadelphia |
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Date |
Title |
Commentator |
Publisher/Publication |
City |
Illustrator |
1840 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats |
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Taylor and Walton |
London |
Wass/Hilton |
1840 |
The Poetical Works of
Howitt, Milman and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes (1840, 1841, 1845, 1847,
1853) |
Redding |
Thomas, Cowperthwait &
Co. |
Philadelphia |
G.B. Ellis, W.H. Ellis |
1840 |
The Seer; or, Common-Places Refreshed. Hunt's Essay on
The
Eve of St. Agnes. (1840, 1850) |
Hunt |
Edward Moxon |
London |
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1840 |
Smith's Standard Library.
The Poetical Works of John Keats. (1840,
1844) |
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William Smith |
London |
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1841 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats (1841, 1846) |
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William Smith |
London |
Wass/Hilton |
1841 |
The Poetical Works of
Howitt, Milman and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes (1840, 1841,
1845, 1847, 1853) |
Redding |
Thomas, Cowperthwait &
Co. |
Philadelphia |
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1842 |
St. Agnes’ Eve. A Chit-Chat
About Keats. |
Short |
Graham’s Lady’s &
Gentlemen’s Magazine |
Philadelphia |
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1844 |
Hunt's Essay on
The
Eve of St. Agnes |
Hunt |
The Rococo (No. 1) |
New York |
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1844 |
Imagination and Fancy: or Selections From the
English Poets. Hunt's Essay on
The
Eve of St. Agnes. |
Hunt |
Smith, Elder, and Co. |
London |
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1844 |
The Poets and Poetry
of England in the Nineteenth Century.
(1844, 1845, 1853, 1875) |
Griswold |
Carey & Hart |
Philadelphia |
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1844 |
Smith's Standard Library.
The Poetical Works of John Keats. (1840,
1844) |
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William Smith |
London |
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1845 |
Imagination and Fancy: or Selections From the
English Poets. Hunt's Essay on
The
Eve of St. Agnes. |
Hunt |
Wiley and Putnam |
New York |
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1845 |
The Poetical Works of
Howitt, Milman and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes (1840, 1841,
1845, 1847, 1853) |
Redding |
Thomas, Cowperthwait &
Co. |
Philadelphia |
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1845 |
The Poets and Poetry
of England in the Nineteenth Century.
(1844, 1845, 1853, 1875) |
Griswold |
Carey & Hart |
Philadelphia |
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1846 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats
(1841, 1846) |
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Wiley & Putnam |
New York |
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1846 |
The Poetical Works of
Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes (1846, 1847) |
Redding |
Crissy & Markley |
Philadelphia |
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1846 |
The Poets and Poetry
of England in the Nineteenth Century. |
Griswold |
Carey & Hart |
Philadelphia |
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1847 |
The Poetical Works of
Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes (1846, 1847) |
Redding |
Crissy & Markley |
Philadelphia |
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1847 |
The Poetical Works of
Howitt, Milman and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes (1840, 1841,
1845, 1847, 1853) |
Redding |
Crissy & Markley |
Philadelphia |
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1848 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats (1848, 1854, 1855, 1858) |
Milnes (Lord Houghton) |
Edward Moxon |
London |
George Scharf |
1848 |
Imagination and Fancy: or Selections From the
English Poets. Hunt's Essay on
The
Eve of St. Agnes. |
Hunt |
George P. Putnam |
New York |
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1848 |
Life, Letters, and
Literary Remains, of John Keats.
(1848, 1848, 1867) |
Milnes (Lord Houghton) |
Edward Moxon |
London |
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1848 |
Life, Letters, and
Literary Remains, of John Keats.
(1848, 1848, 1867) |
Milnes (Lord Houghton) |
George P. Putnam |
New York |
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Date |
Title |
Commentator |
Publisher/Publication |
City |
Illustrator |
1850 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats |
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Edward Moxon |
London |
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1850 |
The Seer; or, Common-Places Refreshed. Hunt's Essay on
The
Eve of St. Agnes. (1840, 1850) |
Hunt |
Edward Moxon |
London |
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1852 |
Selections From The
British Classics. Shelley and Keats. |
Morrell |
Arthur Morrell |
New York |
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1853 |
The Poetical Works of
Howitt, Milman and Keats includes
The Eve of St. Agnes (1840, 1841,
1845, 1847, 1853) |
Redding |
Crissy & Markley |
Philadelphia |
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1853 |
The Poets and Poetry
of England in the Nineteenth Century.
(1844, 1845, 1853, 1875) |
Griswold |
Henry Carey Baird |
Philadelphia |
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1854 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats (1848, 1854, 1855, 1858) |
Milnes (Lord Houghton) |
Edward Moxon |
London |
George Scharf |
1854 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats
(1854, 1863) |
Lowell, James Russell |
Little, Brown; Evans and
Dickerson; Lippincott, Grambo and Co. |
Boston; New York;
Philadelphia |
George Scharf |
1854 |
Contributions To The
Edinburgh Review. Jeffrey reviews "Lamia.
Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes." |
Francis Jeffrey |
Phillips, Sampson & Co.;
James C. Derby |
Boston; New York |
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1855 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats
(1848, 1854, 1855, 1858) |
Milnes (Lord Houghton) |
E. H. Butler & Co. |
Philadelphia |
George Scharf |
1856 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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Sampson Low and Son |
London |
Edward H. Wehnert |
1856 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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Appleton & Co. |
New York |
Edward H. Wehnert |
1857 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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Appleton & Co. |
New York |
Edward H. Wehnert |
1859 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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Sampson Low and Son |
London |
Edward H. Wehnert |
1859 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
|
Sampson Low and Son |
London |
Edward H. Wehnert |
1859 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats (BC) |
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Little, Brown and Co. |
Boston |
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Date |
Title |
Commentator |
Publisher/Publication |
City |
Illustrator |
1861 |
Selections From The
English Poets. |
Hunt |
H. W. Derby |
New York |
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1863 |
The Atlantic
Monthly, April
1863. "On The Vicissitudes of Keats’s Fame" |
Joseph Severn |
Ticknor and Fields; Trubner and
Company |
Boston; London |
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1863 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats
(1854, 1863) |
Lowell, James Russell |
Little, Brown and Co. |
Boston |
George Scharf |
1864 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats
(BC) |
Lowell, James Russell |
Little, Brown and Co. |
Boston |
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1866 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats
(BC) |
Lowell, James Russell |
Little, Brown and Co. |
Boston |
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C1866 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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Sampson Low and Son |
London |
Edward H. Wehnert |
1866 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats. |
Lord Houghton |
Edward Moxon and Co., |
London |
George Scharf |
1867 |
Life, Letters, and
Literary Remains, of John Keats.
(1848, 1848, 1867) |
Lord Houghton |
Edward Moxon & Co. |
London |
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1867 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats |
Lowell, James Russell |
James Miller |
New York |
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1867 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats |
Lowell, James Russell |
Ticknor and Fields |
Boston |
George Scharf |
1868 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats. (1868, 1876) |
Lord Houghton |
Edward Moxon |
London |
Joseph Severn |
1869 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats.
(BC) |
Lord Houghton |
Edward Moxon |
London |
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Date |
Title |
Commentator |
Publisher/Publication |
City |
Illustrator |
1872 |
The Poetical Works of John
Keats. |
Rossetti, William
Michael |
E. Moxon, Son, & Co. |
London |
Thomas Seccombe |
1872 |
The Poetical Works of John
Keats. |
Rossetti, William
Michael |
E. Moxon, Son, & Co. |
London |
Thomas Seccombe |
1873 |
The Poetical Works of John
Keats. |
Lowell, James Russell |
James Miller |
New York |
G.J. Anderton, Wehnert |
1873 |
Contributions To The
Edinburgh Review.
Review of "Lamia. Isabella,
The Eve of St. Agnes." (See 1854) |
Jeffrey, Francis |
D. Appleton and Company |
New York |
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1874 |
Recollection of John
Keats. The Gentleman’s
Magazine. February 1874. |
Charles Cowden Clarke. |
Grant & Co. |
London |
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1875 |
Imagination and
Fancy: or Selections From the English Poets |
Hunt, Leigh |
Smith, Elder, & Co |
London |
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1875 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes.
(1875, 1882) |
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Cassell, Petter & Galpin |
New York |
Edward H. Wehnert |
1875 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. |
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Kilbourne Tompkins |
New York |
Edward H. Wehnert |
1875 |
The Eve of St. Agnes
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Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle |
London |
Edward H. Welmert |
1875 |
The Poets and Poetry
of England in the Nineteenth Century.
(1844, 1845, 1853, 1875) |
Griswold |
James Miller, Publisher |
New York |
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1876 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes, and Other Poems. |
|
James R. Osgood |
Boston |
Unnamed |
1876 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats. (1868, 1876) |
Lord Houghton |
Edward Moxon |
London |
Joseph Severn |
1876 |
Among My Books.
(1876, 1887) |
Lowell, James Russell |
James R. Osgood |
Boston |
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1876 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats.
(1876, 1879, 1882, 1883,
1886, 1890, 1891, 1892) |
Lord Houghton |
George Bell & Sons |
London, New York |
Joseph Severn |
1877 |
The Poetical Work of
Coleridge and Keats
(1877, 1879) |
Lowell, James Russell |
Hurd & Houghton and H.
O. Houghton & Co. |
New York and Boston |
George Scharf |
1877 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats. |
Lowell, James Russell |
James Miller |
New York |
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1877 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats.
(BC) |
Lord Houghton |
Roberts Brothers |
Cambridge, Boston |
Joseph Severn |
1878 |
Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne. |
Harry Buxton Forman |
Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
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New
York |
Joseph Severn |
1878 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats |
|
Ward, Lock, & Co. |
London |
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1878 |
The Seer; or, Common-Places Refreshed. Hunt's Essay on
The
Eve of St. Agnes. |
Hunt |
Roberts Brothers |
Boston |
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1879 |
The Poetical Work of
Coleridge and Keats
(1877, 1879) |
Lowell, James Russell |
Houghton, Osgood & Co. |
Boston |
George Scharf |
1879 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats.
(1876, 1879, 1882, 1883,
1886, 1890, 1891, 1892) |
Lord Houghton |
George Bell & Sons |
London, New York |
Joseph Severn |
Date |
Title |
Commentator |
Publisher/Publication |
City |
Illustrator |
1880 |
The Eve of Saint
Agnes. |
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Sampson Low, Marston,
Searle, and Rivington |
London |
Charles O. Murray |
1880 |
The Eve of Saint
Agnes. |
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Sampson Low, Marston,
Searle, and Rivington |
London |
Charles O. Murray |
1880 |
The Eve of Saint
Agnes. Same edition as above, limited
edition of 50 on hand-made paper, vellum cover.
(BC) |
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Sampson Low, Marston,
Searle, and Rivington |
London |
Charles O. Murray |
1880 |
The Eve of Saint Agnes. |
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Dodd, Mead and Co. |
New York |
Charles O. Murray |
1880 |
The Eve of Saint
Agnes. |
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Harper’s Magazine,
January |
New York |
E. A. Abbey |
1880 |
The Eve of Saint
Agnes.
(BC) |
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Dodd, Mead and Co. |
New York |
E. A. Abbey |
C1880 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats |
Lowell, James Russell |
R. Worthington |
New York |
Unnamed |
1880 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats |
|
John Wurtele Lovell |
New York |
Francis T. Palgrave |
1880 |
John Keats. A Study |
F. M. Owen |
C. Kegan Paul & Co. |
London |
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1881 |
Modern Classics. The Eve of
St. Agnes, and Other Poems. |
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Houghton, Mifflin and
Co. |
Boston |
Illustrated |
1881 |
Household Friends For Every
Season. |
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James R. Osgood & Co, |
Boston |
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1882 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes.
(1875, 1882) |
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Cassell Petter Galpin&Co. |
New York |
Edward H. Wehnert |
1882 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats. |
Lord Houghton |
Roberts Brothers, Boston |
Boston |
Andrew Sc |
1882 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats. |
Lord Houghton |
Roberts Brothers, Boston |
Boston |
Andrew Sc |
C 1882 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats. |
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Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. |
New York |
Dalziel Brothers |
C 1882 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats. |
|
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. |
New York |
Dalziel Brothers |
1882 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats.
(1876, 1879, 1882, 1883,
1886, 1890, 1891, 1892) |
Lord Houghton |
George Bell & Sons |
London, New York |
Joseph Severn |
1883 |
The Eve of Saint
Agnes. |
Hales |
Clark & Maynard |
New York |
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1883 |
The Poetical Works
and Other Writings of
John Keats (Volume II of Four Volume Set) |
Forman; Hunt |
Reeves & Turner |
London |
William Hilton R.A. |
1883 |
The Letters and Poems of
John Keats. |
Speed |
Dodd, Mead and Co. |
New York |
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1883 |
The Poems of John Keats.
(BC) |
Lord Houghton, Speed |
Dodd, Mead and Co. |
New York |
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1883 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats.
(1876, 1879, 1882, 1883,
1886, 1890, 1891, 1892) |
Lord Houghton |
George Bell & Sons |
London, New York |
Joseph Severn |
1884 |
The Eve of Saint
Agnes. |
Hales |
Clark & Maynard |
New York |
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1884 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats. |
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Belford, Clarke & Co. |
Chicago, New York |
Dalziel Brothers |
1884 |
The Poetical Work of
John Keats |
|
DeWolfe |
Boston |
Unnamed |
1884 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
(1884, 1885, 1886, 1889, 1892) |
Palgrave |
MacMillan and Co. |
London |
Flaxman |
1884 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
(1884, 1893) |
Palgrave |
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. |
New York |
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1884 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats. |
Forman |
Reeves & Turner |
London |
Joseph Severn |
1884 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats. |
Forman |
Reeves & Turner |
London |
Joseph Severn |
1884 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats. |
William T. Arnold |
Kegan Paul, Trench, &
Co. |
London |
Joseph Severn |
1884 |
Keats |
Edmund
C. Stedman |
Century
Illustrated Monthly |
New York |
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1885 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. |
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University Press, John
Wilson and Son |
Cambridge, Mass. |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1885 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. (Green,Blue & Tan Versions) |
|
Estes & Lauriat |
Boston |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1885 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. (Brown Versions) |
|
H. B. Nims & Company |
Troy, NY |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1885 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. (Estes Versions II) |
|
Estes & Lauriat |
Boston |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1885 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. (Estes Versions III) |
|
Estes & Lauriat |
Boston |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1885 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. (Estes Versions IV) |
|
Estes & Lauriat |
Boston |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1885 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. (Estes Versions V) |
|
Estes & Lauriat |
Boston |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1885 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. (Estes Versions VI) |
|
Estes & Lauriat |
Boston |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1885 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. (Estes Versions VII) |
|
Estes & Lauriat |
Boston |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1885 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. (Red Versions) |
|
H. B. Nims & Company |
Troy, NY |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1885 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
(Large Edition)
(1884, 1885, 1886, 1889, 1892) |
Palgrave |
MacMillan and Co. |
London |
Flaxman |
C1885 |
The Poems of John Keats. |
Warne |
Frederick Warne and Co. |
London, New York. |
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1885 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats. |
John Hogben; Edited by
William Sharp |
Walter Scott |
London |
|
1886 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
(1884, 1885, 1886, 1889, 1892) |
Palgrave |
MacMillan and Co. |
London |
Flaxman |
1886 |
Adonais. An
Elegy on the Death of John Keats.(1821, 1886,
1891) |
Shelley; Thomas J. Wise |
Reeves and Turner |
London |
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1886 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. Edition of 280 copies. |
|
Estes & Lauriat |
Boston |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1886 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats. |
John Hogben |
Walter Scott |
London |
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1886 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
(BC) |
John Hogben |
W. Scott |
London |
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1886 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats.
(1876, 1879, 1882, 1883,
1886, 1890, 1891, 1892) |
Lord Houghton |
George Bell & Sons |
London, New York |
Joseph Severn |
1887 |
Among My Books.
(1876, 1887) |
Lowell, James Russell |
Houghton, Mifflin and
Company |
Boston, New York |
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1887 |
Keats. |
Colvin, Sidney |
Harper & Brothers |
New York |
|
1887 |
Life of John Keats |
William Michael Rossetti |
Walter Scott |
London |
|
1887 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats. |
Lord Houghton |
Roberts Brothers, Boston |
Boston |
Andrew Sc |
1888 |
The Eve of St. Agnes, And
Other Poems |
|
John B Alden |
New
York, Chicago |
|
1889 |
American Artists
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Estes & Lauriat, |
Boston |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1889 |
Keats’s Isabella and
The Eve of St. Agnes
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Oxford At the Clarendon Press |
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1889 |
The Eve of Saint
Agnes. |
Hales |
Effingham Maynard & Co |
New York |
|
1889 |
The Poetical Works
and Other Writings of
John Keats (Volume I of Four Volume Set) |
Forman; Hunt |
Reeves & Turner |
London |
Joseph Severn; Samuel
Palmer |
1889 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
(1884, 1885, 1886, 1889, 1892) |
Palgrave |
MacMillan and Co. |
London |
Flaxman |
1889 |
Selections from Keats. |
J. R. Tutin |
George Routledge and Sons |
London, Glasgow,
Manchester, New York |
|
1889 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
(1884, 1885, 1886, 1889, 1892) |
Palgrave |
MacMillan and Co. |
London |
Flaxman |
Date |
Title |
Commentator |
Publisher/Publication |
City |
Illustrator |
1890 |
Modern Classics. The Eve of
St. Agnes, and Other Poems. |
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Houghton, Mifflin and
Co. |
Boston |
Illustrated |
1890 |
Poetry and Prose By John
Keats. |
Forman |
Reeves & Turner |
London |
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1890 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats.
(1876, 1879, 1882, 1883,
1886, 1890, 1891, 1892) |
Lord Houghton |
George Bell & Sons |
London, New York |
Joseph Severn |
1891 |
Letters of John Keats |
Sidney Colvin |
MacMillan and Co. |
London, New York |
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1891 |
Roses of Romance. From the
Poems of John Keats. |
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Roberts Brothers |
Boston |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1891 |
Imagination and Fancy:
or Selections From the English Poets.
Hunt's Essay on The Eve of St. Agnes. |
Hunt |
Smith, Elder, & Co. |
London |
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1891 |
Adonais. An
Elegy on the Death of John Keats.
(1821, 1886, 1891) |
Shelley; William Michael
Rossetti |
Clarendon Press |
Oxford |
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1891 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats.
(1876, 1879, 1882, 1883,
1886, 1890, 1891, 1892) |
Lord Houghton |
George Bell & Sons |
London, New York |
Joseph Severn |
1892 |
The Poetical Works of
John Keats.
(1876, 1879, 1882, 1883,
1886, 1890, 1891, 1892) |
Lord Houghton |
George Bell & Sons |
London, New York |
Joseph Severn |
1892 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
(1884, 1885, 1886, 1889, 1892) |
Palgrave |
MacMillan and Co. |
London, New York |
Flaxman |
1893 |
The Eve of
St. Agnes and Sonnets |
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G. P. Putnam’s Sons, |
New York London |
Joseph Severn |
1893 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
(1884, 1893) |
Palgrave |
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. |
New York, Boston |
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[1893] |
The Eve of St.
Agnes, and Sonnets |
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G.P. Putnam’s Sons, the
Knickerbocker Press |
New York and London |
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C 1894 |
Cullings From Keats |
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A. W. Carter, |
Newtonville, Mass. |
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1894 |
Poems of John Keats
(BC) |
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Kelmscott Press |
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1895 |
The Poems of John Keats (The Penny Poets) |
Stead, W.T. |
The Review of Reviews |
London |
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1895 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats |
Arnold, William |
Merrill and Baker,
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New
York |
Joseph Severn |
1895 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats |
Forman; Dole |
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
New York |
Joseph Severn |
1895 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats (A. E.) |
Forman; Dole |
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
New York |
Joseph Severn |
1895 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats (G. E.) |
Forman; Dole |
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
New York |
Joseph Severn |
1895 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats |
Forman; Dole |
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
New York |
Joseph Severn |
1895 |
The Complete Poetical
Works of John Keats |
Forman; Dole |
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
New York |
Joseph Severn |
1895 |
The Complete Poetical
Works of John Keats |
Forman; Dole |
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
New York |
Joseph Severn |
1895 |
The Complete Poetical
Works of John Keats |
Forman; Dole |
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
New York |
Joseph Severn |
1895 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats Vol I |
Forman; Dole |
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
New York |
Severn, Palmer, E. H.
Garrett |
1895 |
The Poetical
Works of John Keats Vol II |
Forman; Dole |
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
New York |
Severn, Hilton, Edouart,
Masks |
1895 |
John Keats. A Critical
Essay |
Robert Bridges |
Privately Printed |
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1895 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
|
Forman |
J. B. Lippincott Company |
Philadelphia |
Illustrations |
1895 |
Keats in Hampstead |
Kenyon West |
Century
Illustrated Monthly |
New York |
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1895 |
The Influence of Keats |
van Dyke |
Century
Illustrated Monthly |
New York |
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1896 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes |
Leigh Hunt |
Auvergne Press |
River Forest |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
1896 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes
(Five Versions) |
|
H.M. Caldwell Co. |
New York |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1896 |
The Eve of St.
Agnes
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H.M. Caldwell Co. |
New York |
Edmund H. Garrett |
1896 |
Poems by John Keats |
Bates |
Ginn & Company |
Boston, London |
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1896 |
Matthew Arnold, Essays
in Criticism. The Study of Poetry. John Keats;
Wordsworth |
Arnold, Matthew;
Sheridan, Susan |
Allyn and Bacon |
Boston, Chicago |
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1896 |
John Keats. The
Apothecary Poet. |
Osler, William |
John Hopkins Hospital
Bulletin |
Baltimore |
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1896 |
Poems of John Keats
(BC) |
Drury, Bridges |
Lawrence & Bullen |
London |
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1897 |
The Eve of St. Agnes,
Dramatic Ballad. From the Poem by Keats. |
Surette, Thomas Whitney |
Novello, Ewer and Co.
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London, New York |
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1898 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats. |
Forman |
Reeves & Turner |
London |
Joseph Severn |
1899 |
Endymion And Other
Poems (Two Versions) |
Henry Morley |
Henry Altemus |
Philadelphia |
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1899 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats. |
Lord Houghton |
Little, Brown & Company |
Boston |
Joseph Severn |
1899 |
Essays In Literary Interpretation |
H. W. Mabie |
Dodd, Mead and Company |
New York |
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1899 |
The Complete
Poetical Works And Letters of John Keats |
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Houghton Mifflin
Company, |
Boston, New York, Chicago... |
John Andrew and Son |
189x-+ |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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Henry Frowde |
London |
M. Jameson |
Date |
Title |
Commentator |
Publisher/Publication |
City |
Illustrator |
1900 |
Ode to a Nightingale. La Belle
Dame Sans Merci |
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Johnson, Hickborn & Co. |
London |
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1900-01 |
The Complete Works of
John Keats V. I, II, & III of V |
Forman |
Gowars & Gray |
Glasgow |
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1900 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. |
New York |
Joseph Severn |
1900 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. |
New York |
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1900 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
Gosse, Edmund |
Ralph Fletcher Seymour |
Chicago |
Seymour |
1900 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
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Lowell |
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. |
Boston, New York |
Portrait |
1900 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats.
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Lowell |
Hurst & Company |
New York |
Oscar Edward Grosch |
1900 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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Essex House Press, Guild of Handicraft, Ltd. |
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1900 |
The Sonnets of John Keats |
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George Bell & Sons |
London |
Christopher Dean |
1901 |
Keats. By Sidney Colvin.
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Sidney Colvin |
Harper &
Brothers |
New York
and London |
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1901 |
The Odes of John Keats |
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George Bell & Sons |
London |
Robert Anning Bell |
1901 |
The Poetical Works
of John Keats. |
Lord Houghton |
George Bell & Sons |
London,
New York |
Joseph Severn |
1902 |
Keats’s The Eve of
St. Agnes and Other Poems |
Katharine Lee Bates |
Silver, Burdett and Company,
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New York, Boston, Chicago |
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1902 |
Shelley’s
Adonais and Alastor |
Shelley; Roberts |
Silver, Burdett and
Company |
New York, Boston,
Chicago |
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1902 |
Adonais |
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De La More |
London |
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1902 |
Endymion & The Longer Poems of
John Keats |
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J.
M. Dent and Co. |
London |
Joseph Severn |
1902 |
The Eve of St. Agnes and Sonnets |
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G. P. Putnam’s Sons, |
New York, London |
Joseph Severn |
1902 |
The Eve of St. Agnes |
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De La More |
London |
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1902 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats |
Palgrave |
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., |
New York |
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1903 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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A. C. Curtis |
England |
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C 1903 |
The Eve of St. Agnes. |
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George W. Jacobs & Co. |
Philadelphia |
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1904 |
Old Love Stories Retold |
Le Gallienne |
Baker & Taylor Co. |
New York |
Portrait |
1904 |
The Eve
of St. Agnes |
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George Routledge & Sons /
E. P. Dutton & Co., |
London / New York |
May Sandheim |
C 1904 |
The Poems of John Keats |
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Simpkin,
Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. |
London |
Edmund J. Sullivan |
1904 |
Select Poems.
Introduction by Alice Meynell. (PW, 10/22/04 p. 963) |
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H.M. Caldwell Co. |
New York |
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[1905] |
The Eve of St.
Agnes. The Broadway Booklets. |
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George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. |
London |
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1906 |
The
Poems of John Keats |
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J. M. Dent & Co. |
London |
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C 1907 |
Isabella or the Pot of Basil |
|
George W. Jacobs & Co. |
Philadelphia |
Jessie M King |
1907 |
Poems of Keats. |
Symons, Arthur |
George W. Jacobs & Co. |
Philadelphia |
E. J. Sullivan |
1908 |
Odes, Sonnets, and Lyrics |
Stedman, E. C. |
The Century Co. |
New York |
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C 1908 |
The Eve of St Agnes, And other Poems.
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George G. Harrap & Co. |
London |
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1909 |
A Day with John Keats |
Byron, May |
Hodder & Stoughton |
New York |
W. J. Neatby;
E. W. Haslehust |
1909 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats |
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Henry Frowde |
London |
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C 1910 |
Eve of St. Agnes and other poems |
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The Gold Medal Library |
London, New York,
Calcutta |
E. A. Abbey |
1910 |
The Eve of St. Agnes |
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Letchworth, at the Arden |
London |
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C 1912 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats |
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Collins’ Clear-Type
Press |
London & Glasgow |
A. A. Dixon |
1913 |
Portrait of John Keats,
published in The Mentor |
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The Mentor Association,
Inc. |
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P. Kramer |
C 1915 |
The Complete Poetical
Works of John Keats |
Forman; Dole |
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
New York |
Joseph Severn |
1921 |
Catalogue of a Loan
Exhibition Commemorating The Anniversary of the
Death of John Keats. |
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Public Library City of
Boston |
Boston |
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1921 |
Poems of Keats, An Anthology In Commemoration of the Poet’s
Death, February 23, 1821
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Richard Cobden-Sanderson |
London |
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1923 |
John Keats |
Henry Newbolt |
Thomas Nelson & Sons
Ltd., |
London & Edinburgh |
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1927 |
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.
Agnes, and Other Poems |
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Percy Lund Humphries |
London |
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1928 |
Keats. Hyperion, Isabella, Eve of
St. Agnes, Lamia. |
Hollingworth |
W. B. Clive |
London |
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1938 |
Poems of John
Keats |
Henry Newbolt |
Caxton House, Inc. |
New York |
|
1965 |
Keats. A Bibliography
and Reference Guide |
MacGillivray, J.R |
University of Toronto Press |
Toronto |
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2009 |
Bright Star,
based on the life off John Keats |
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The Feast of the Poets (1815) |
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In
1908 Leigh Hunt became the editor of the Examiner.
The Examiner acquired the reputation for
independence; it would attack any worthy target
"from a principle of taste," as John Keats expressed
it. This volume was first published in 1814. In May
1816, Leigh Hunt agreed to publish Keats' sonnet "O
Solitude" in his magazine "The Examiner." Keats was
deeply inspired by Leigh Hunt's work. It was the
first appearance of Keats' poems in print. In March 1817, "Poems"
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was
published, the first volume of Keats' verse. Critically it
was rejected, but Leigh Hunt, undaunted, proceeded to
publish the essay "Three Young Poets" (Shelley, Keats and
Reynolds). Hunt also introduced him to other publishers and
writers, which helped established Keats reputation as a
leading poet. Full calf profusely decorated in gilt. Blue
endpapers. (Second Edition) Published by Gale and Fenner,
Paternoster-Row, London. |
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Published by Taylor and Hessey 1820 |
Republished by
Humphrey Milford 1922 |
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First published in 1820
"Printed For Taylor and Hessey. Fleet-Street, London,
1820". It was titled "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of
St. Agnes, and Other Poems". By John Keats, Author of Endymion.
This was the first time
"The Eve of St. Agnes" was
published in a volume. It also
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included 12 other poems. Republished
in 1922 by Humphrey Milford, London at the Oxford University Press. "This present edition is a reprint, page for page and line for
line, of a copy of the 1820 volume in the British Museum..."
(page vi). The title page is a reprint from 1820. |
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The Edinburgh Monthly Review, July 1820 |
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The Edinburgh Monthly
Review. July - December 1820. Vol. IV. The July issue
reviews a poem by Barry Cornwall, and includes an attack on both Hunt
and Keats, "... a more dubious complaint - was it Mr. Leigh Hunt, more
than half cured of his cockneyism, and writing, for once, in the spirit
of a gentleman, an Englishman, and a true English Poet? ...Now this is
cockneyism, and the very worst kind of cockneyism too. It
is quite unworthy of any person but Mr. Hunt or Mr. Keats, men who
indeed are equally ignorant to all sensible purpose of
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ancient and modern Italy, but
who seem to be very fond of giving themselves airs of a
certain sort, merely, we suppose, on the strength of their
having been at the King’s theatre pretty often, and perhaps
of being in the habit of living among a set of fifth-rate
fiddlers and composers of opera bravouras." Printed for
Waugh and Innes, Hunter Square, Edinburgh. G. and W. B.
Whittaker, Ave-Marie Lane, and Rodwell and Martin, New Bond Street, London. Sold also by J.
Cumming, Dublin. Printed by Balfour and Clark. |
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December 1820 Title Page |
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Review of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes By
Francis Jeffrey (August 1820) |
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See "Contributions
To The Edinburgh Review. By Francis Jeffrey"
1854. In the August 1820 issue of the Edinburgh
Review, Jeffrey reviewed "Lamia. Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes
and other Poems." Jeffrey writes "We... have been exceedingly struck
with the genius they (the poems) display, and the spirit of poetry which
breathes through all their extravagances... One of the sweetest of the
smaller poems is that entitled ‘The Eve of St. Agnes:’ though we can now
afford but a scanty extract.. Mr. Keats has unquestionably a very
beautiful imagination, a
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perfect ear for harmony, and a
great familiarity with the finest diction of English poetry;
but he must learn not to misuse or misapply these
advantages; and neither to waste the good gifts of nature
and study on intractable themes, not to luxuriate too
recklessly on such as are more suitable." Published in 1854
by Phillips, Sampson, and Company, Boston. James C. Derby,
New York. Stereotyped by J. C. D. Christian & Co. C. Sherman
& Co., Printers. Also
published in 1873 by D. Appleton and Company, New York. |
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Adonais, An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, By
Percy B. Shelley (1821/1886) |
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Adonais.
An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion Etc.
By Percy B. Shelley. Pisa with the types of didot. 1821. ("Shelley
speedily decided which course to follow, and put his Elegy to press at
Pisa, where it was ‘printed with the types of Didot.' ")
(Note: This is an exact Fac-Simile published within the
1886 edition of "Adonais". Published For The Shelley Society By
Reeves and Turner, 196 Strand, London. Three Hundred Copies were printed
by Richard Clay & Sons, Bread Street Hill, London. Bungay, Suffolk.)
In his preface
Shelley writes. "The genius of the lamented person to whose memory I
have dedicated these unworthy verses, was not less delicate and fragile
than it was beautiful... The savage criticism of his Endymion, which
appeared in the Quarterly Review, produced the most violent effect on
his susceptible mind; the agitation thus originated ended in the rupture
of a blood-vessel..." This later proved to be untrue.
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He continues "...the succeeding
acknowledgments from more candid critics, of the true
greatness of his powers, were ineffective to heal the wound
thus wantonly inflicted. It may be well said, that these
wretched men know not what they do. They scatter their
insults and their slanders without heed as to whether the
poisoned shaft lights on a heart made callous by many
blows..." Shelley laments "I weep for Adonais - he is dead! O, weep
for Adonais! though our tears, Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a
head! And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years, To mourn our loss,
rouse thy obscure compeers, And teach them thine own sorrow, say: with
me Died Adonais..." Shelley published his Elegy at Pisa, where it was
"printed with the types of Didot." The original price was 3s. 6d (3
Shillings, 6 pence.) and was issued in blue paper wrappers, with woodcut
and ornamental border. |
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On August 2, 1820, Leigh
Hunt wrote an extensive review on "The Stories of
Lamia, (Isabella or) The pot of Basil, The Eve of
St. Agnes, &c. As told by Mr. Keats.", and
observed concerning St. Agnes "...the passage
affords a striking specimen of the sudden and strong
maturity
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of the author's genius."
The Indicator No. 43 (2 August 1820) pages 343-344. Hunt's reviews were compiled in
this volume and published in 1822. The Indicator (1822) was printed and published by Joseph Appleyard, Catherine-Street, Stand, and
sold by all the Booksellers. |
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats 1829 |
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The Poetical
Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, Complete in One Volume. The third section
includes The Eve of St. Agnes, and begins
with "Memoir of John Keats". "The short career of John Keats was
marked by the development of powers which have been rarely exhibited in
one at so immature an age. .." An elaborate three-tiered engraving
frames the three poets with Victorian friezes. Extensive commentary by
an unnamed author. Some scholars attributed commentary to Cyrus Redding.
Redding edited the "Galignani Messenger" from 1815 -
1818.
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From 1820 to
1830 he edited "The New Monthly Magazine". (Obituary: Athenaeum, 1870
p.742). Published by A. and W. Galignani, No. 18, Rue Vivienne, Paris. Printed by Jules
Didot Senior, Printers to His Majesty, Rue Du Pont-De-Lodi, No. 6. (Published in 1831 and 1832 by J. Griggs, Philadelphia.)
(Published in 1846 and 1847 by Crissy & Markley, Philadelphia.) Wright designed
the title page for the 1896 Auvergne Press edition. |
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats 1831, 1832
& 1838 |
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The Poetical
Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, Complete in One Volume. The third section
includes The Eve of St. Agnes, and
begins with "Memoir of John Keats". "The short career of John Keats was
marked by the development of powers which have been rarely exhibited in
one at so immature an age. .." An elaborate three-tiered engraving
frames the three poets with Victorian friezes. Extensive commentary by
an unnamed author. Some scholars attributed commentary to Cyrus
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Redding. Redding edited
the "Galignani Messenger" from 1815 - 1818. From 1820 to
1830 he edited "The New Monthly Magazine". (Obituary: Athenaeum, 1870
p.742). First published in 1829 by A. and
W. Galignani, Paris.
Published in 1831 and 1832 by J. Griggs, Philadelphia. (Published in
1838 by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., Philadelphia.)
(Published in 1846 and 1847 by Crissy & Markley, Philadelphia.) Wright designed
the title page for the 1896 Auvergne Press edition. |
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Leigh Hunt's London Journal 1835 |
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From 1830–1832 Leigh
Hunt published the Tatler, a daily that was
devoted to literary and dramatic criticism. From
April 2, 1834 through August 22, 1835 he published
the London Journal. From 1837–1838 he was the
editor for the Monthly Repository. The
January 21, 1835, issue, No. 43, included Hunts’
commentary which was interspersed through out Keats’
"Eve of St. Agnes".
This was Hunt’s first essay exclusive composed about
this poem. One wonders if Hunt chose issue No. 43
because it was thirteen year earlier that he touched
on this poem when he wrote an essay just after it
was first published in the volume "Lamia,
Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes", which Hunt
published in "The
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Indicator", 1820,
No. 43. These weekly issues were later bound in volume form.
This 1835 essay was published five years later in the 1840
"The Seer; or, Common-Places Refreshed", a volume of Hunt’s
essays. "The Seer" was reprinted in 1850, and in 1896
reprinted by Winslow and Williams’
Auvergne Press. Original cover price Three
Halfpence. Leigh Hunt’s London Journal, January 21, 1835,
No. 43. (Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street and
Henry Hooper, 13, Pall Mall East, London. From the Steam (?)
Press of C. & W. Reynell, Little Parkway Street, London) |
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1835, No. 43 |
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Smith's Standard Library. The Poetical Works of John Keats (Smith) 1840,
1844 |
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Smith's Standard Library. The Poetical Works of
John Keats. This volume was the first collected
edition of Keats' work, 73 pages. Original cost was
two shillings. It was a paperback edition and was
reissued in
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1844. This volume was a
precursor to the volume "The Poetical Works of John Keats"
published in 1841 and 1846 by William Smith. Published by
William Smith, London. |
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Taylor) 1840 |
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. This volume combines "Endymion"
published in 1818, "Lamia. Isabella, The Eve of St.
Agnes and other Poems" published in 1820, as well as
miscellaneous poems, sonnets, epistles and stanzas.
Portrait of John Keats engraved by Charles
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by William Hilton. Published by Taylor and Walton, 28, Upper
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The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman and Keats 1840,
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The Poetical
Works of Howitt, Milman and Keats, Complete in One Volume. As in the "The
Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats" volumes, the third
section of this volume begins with a "Memoir of John Keats". "The short
career of John Keats was marked by the development of powers which have
been rarely exhibited in one at so immature an age..." Includes "The
Eve of St. Agnes". An elaborate three-tiered engraving frames the three
poets with Victorian friezes. Includes a
portrait of John
Keats after a charcoal sketch by Joseph Severn.
Portraits are engraved by G.B. Ellis. Ornaments by
W.H. Ellis. Extensive commentary by an unnamed author.
Some scholars attributed commentary to Cyrus Redding. Redding edited the
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"Galignani Messenger"
from 1815 - 1818. From 1820 to 1830 he edited "The
New Monthly Magazine". (Obituary: Athenaeum, 1870 p.742). Published
by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., No. 253, Market Street, Philadelphia. Also
published in 1841 and 1845 by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., No. 253,
Market Street, Philadelphia. Published in 1847 by Crissy & Markley, No.
4 Minor Street, Philadelphia, and in 1853 by Crissy & Markley,
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The Seer, or Common-Places Refreshed 1840 & 1950 |
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"Preface. The following
Essays have been collected, for the first time, from
such of the author’s periodical writings as it was
thought might furnish another publication similar to
the Indicator. Most of them have been taken
from the London Journal; and the remainder
from the Liberal, the Monthly Repository,
the Tatler and the Round Table... this
19th day of October , 1840." Comprised of Part I and
II. "The Eve of St. Agnes" is in Part II, Chapter
XLII, pages 12-18. Hunt intersperses his commentary
within the poem. The essay was first published in
the London Journal,
January 21, 1835. The last page of the version
published by Auvergne
Press in 1896 notes: "Leigh Hunt published
in 1840 a delightful collection of Essays selected
from many he had
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written for the London
Journal; and the remainder from the Liberal, the
Monthly Repository, the Tatler and the
Round Table. The volume was called: The Seer; or,
Common-Places Refreshed. His motto he selected from
Shakepeare (m.s.) "Love adds a precious seeing to the eye."
The book is rarely seen, and, perhaps, more rarely read. We
have rambled through it, and have selected for re-print his
gentle reading of a fellow poet. W. & W. (Winslow &
Williams). The Seer; or, Common-Places Refreshed (Published
by Edward Moxon, Dover Street, London. Printed by Bradbury
and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars, London). This volume was
republished in 1850. |
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The Seer; or,
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The Poetical Works of John Keats 1841 & 1846 |
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. This volume is a near reprint of the
1840 version. It
combines "Endymion" published in 1818, "Lamia.
Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and other Poems"
published in 1820, as well as miscellaneous poems,
sonnets, epistles and stanzas. Portrait of John Keats engraved by
Charles Wentworth Wass, from a drawing
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by William Hilton.
Published for the Proprietor by William Smith, 13, Fleet
Street, London. Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars,
London. Also published in 1846 by Wiley & Putnam, 161
Broadway, New York. C. A. Alvord, Printer, Corner of John
and Dutch Streets. P. B. Smith, Stereotyper, 216 William
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The Poetical Works of
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The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman and Keats 1841 |
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The Poetical
Works of Howitt, Milman and Keats, Complete in One Volume. As in the "The
Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats" volumes, the third
section of this volume begins with a "Memoir of John
Keats". "The short career of John Keats was marked
by the development of powers which have been rarely
exhibited in one at so immature an age. .." The
frontispiece is an elaborate three-tiered engraving
frames the three poets with Victorian friezes.
Includes a
portrait of John
Keats after a charcoal sketch by Joseph Severn. Ornaments by W.H. Ellis. Extensive commentary by an unnamed author. Some scholars
attributed commentary to Cyrus Redding. Redding edited the "Galignani
Messager" from 1815 - 1818.
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From 1820 to 1830 he edited "The New Monthly
Magazine". (Obituary: Athenaeum, 1870 p.742). Hard Cover, Full
Leather. Marbled end papers. Published by Thomas, Cowperthwait &
Co., No. 253, Market Street, Philadelphia. Printed by Gihon, Fairshild &
Co., S.E. Corner of Seventh and Market Streets.) (Also published in
1840
by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., No. 253, Market Street, Philadelphia)
(Published in 1847 by Crissy & Markley, No. 4 Minor Street,
Philadelphia, and in 1853 by Crissy & Markley, Goldsmith’s Hall, Library
Street, Philadelphia.
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St. Agnes' Eve. A Chit-Chat About Keats 1842 |
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"St. Agnes’ Eve. A
Chit-Chat About Keats." Jeremy Short writes "...I
have just been reading Keats - shame on the wretches
who tortured him to death! ...Genius he had
unquestionably, yet he never enjoyed a happy hour...
The world, since then, has done tardy justice to his
genius - but this did not soothe his sorrows, nor
will it reach him in his silent grave... have you
ever read ‘The Eve of St. Agnes?’ It is - let me
tell you - the poem for which Keats will be loved,
and you aught to walk barefoot a thousand miles,
like an ancient pilgrim to Loretto, for having
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neglected to peruse this poem...
It has the glow of a landscape seen through a rosy glass -
it is warm and blushing, yet pure as a maiden in her first
exceeding beauty. As Burgundy is to other wines, as a bride
blushing to her lover’s side is to other virgins, so it ‘The
Eve of St. Agnes’ to other poems. What luxuriance of fancy,
what scope of language, what graphic power it displays!"
Published in Graham’s Lady’s & Gentlemen’s Magazine. April
1842, Volume XX. Published by George R. Graham,
Philadelphia. |
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The Rococo (No. 1), New Mirror Extra - No. 8
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The term Recoco referred
to a style of French design and decor originating in
the mid-18th century. Willis explains, "‘The Rococo’
is the quaint, but, in fact, most descriptive name
of an ‘Extra’ now in press for the ‘Mirror Library.’
Those of your readers who have been lately in France
will be familiar with the term rococo... It
came into use about four to five years ago, when it
was the rage to look up costly and old-fashioned
articles of jewellery and furniture. A valuable
stone, for example, in a beautiful but antique
setting, was rococo... ‘The Racoco,’
published by the proprietors of the New Mirror,
answers this description exactly. It comprises the
three most exquisite and absolute creations of pure
imagination (in my opinion) that have been produced
since Shakspere - ‘Lillian,’ by Praed; ‘The Culprit
Fay,’ by Drake; and ‘St. Agnes,’ by Keats..."
In 1843 Morris, Willis, & Co., began publishing a
weekly "The New Mirror". Supplemental to this weekly
they offered "Extras" under the title "Mirror
Library". By mid-year 1844 they had published 29
volumes which included fifty titles (New Mirror
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p255). This is "No. 8" in that
series. A series within these 29 volumes was titled "The
Recoco", this being "No. 1" in the Recoco series. One of the
three poems published in this volume was "The Eve of St.
Agnes" with Leigh Hunt’s commentary interspersed through out
the poem, first published in the
London Journal January 21, 1835. This cover reads
(Three of the most delicious poems ever written.) N. P.
Willis observes "The writer visited his grave at Rome, and
read there the epitaph he himself directed to be graven on
the head-stone: ‘Here lies one whose name was written in
water.’ It almost requires a poet to appreciate the
unreachable delicacy of Keats’s use of language. He plucks
his epithets from the profoundest hiding-places of meaning
an association." The Rococo (No. 1) (Published by Morris,
Willis, & Co., Publishers, No. 4 Ann-Street, New York) New
Mirror Extra - No. 8 (in a series of 29 to date). Contains
three poems, one of which is "The Eve of St. Agnes", with
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The Recoco (No. 1), New Mirror
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Imagination and Fancy:
or Selections From the English Poets. Hunt begins
this volume with an essay "An Answer to the Question
What is Poetry?" He includes selections from
Spenser; Marlowe; Shakspeare; Ben Johnson; Beaumont
and Fletcher; Middleton, Decker and Webster; Milton;
Coleridge; Shelley; and Keats. This includes "The Eve of St. Agnes"
and Hunts Essay, first published in
"The Seer"
1840, but with modifications. Where his comments
were interspersed within Agnus in 1840, the
poem in totality comes first, then Hunts essay with
minor modifications. He introduces the section on
Keats with a biography, and who better to write this
then this close supporter, colleague and friend. He
writes "Keats was born a poet... Repeated editions
of him in England, France, and America, attest its
triumphant survival of all obloquy; and there can be
no doubt that he has taken a permanent station among
British Poets, of a very high, if not thoroughly
mature,
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description. ...the Eve of Saint
Agnes still appears to me the most delightful and complete
specimen of his genius... It is young, but full-grown poetry
of the rarest description; graceful as the beardless Apollo;
glowing and gorgeous with the colours of romance. ...all
good things tend to pleasure in the recollection; when the
bitterness of their loss is past, their own sweetness
embalms them. ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.’" Wright
designed the title page for the 1896
Auvergne Press edition. First published by Smith, Elder,
and Co., London in 1844. Published by Wiley and Putnam,
161 Broadway, New York. Printed by R. Craighead’s Power
Press, 112 Fulton Street. Stereotyped by T. B. Smith, 216
William Street. Also published as "New Edition, Complete in
one volume" in 1848 by George P. Putnam, 155 Broadway, New
York.) (Also published as "A New Edition" in 1891 by Smith,
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The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth
Century 1844,
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England in the Nineteenth Century. By Rufus W.
Griswold. A Drainless Shower of Light is Poesy; ‘Tis
the Supreme of Power; ‘Tis might Half Slumbering on
its own right arm. John Keats. Second Edition. Of
the approximately 75 English poets incorporated in
this volume, Griswold chose to quote Keats on the
title page. He writes of Keats, "...1817, appeared
his first volume of poetry, and in the following
spring, ‘Endymion.’ They were badly received by the
critics. Every one, we suppose, has heard of the
bitter review attributed to Gifford, in the
Quarterly, which, with some show of reason, was said
to have caused the poet’s death... Though depressed,
he was not disheartened, and he wrote in two
years... ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ which were printed
in 1820. ‘He sent them out,’ says Shelley, with ‘a
careless despair.’ without confidence or fear. But
the world was now prepared to render a different
verdict upon his work... Praise was not yet
universal,
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but it came from the
high-priests of genius... Keats was the greatest of all
poets who have died so young. His imagination, which he most
delighted to indulge through the medium of mythological
fable, was affluent and warm... Many of his sonnets possess
a Miltonic vigour, and his ‘Eve of St. Agnes’ is as highly
finished, almost, as the masterpieces of Pope." Included is
"The Eve of St, Agnes". The First, Second and Third Edition
were published in 1844, 1845 and 1846 by Carey & Hart,
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Stereotyped by L. Johnson,
Phila. Printed by T. K. & P. G. Collins. The Fourth Edition
was published in 1853 by Henry Carey Baird, Philadelphia,
Successor to E. L. Carey. The Fifth Edition was published in
1875 by James Miller, Publisher, 647 Broadway, New York.
Lange, Little & Co., Printers, Electrotypers and
Stereotypers, 108 to 114 Wooster Street, New York. By Rufus
W. Griswold. With additions by R. H. Stoddard. |
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats
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The Poetical
Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, Complete in One Volume. The third section
includes The Eve of St. Agnes, and begins
with "Memoir of John Keats". "The short career of
John Keats was marked by the development of powers
which have been rarely exhibited in one at so
immature an age. .." The three-tiered engraving that
appeared in the 1829, 1831 and 1832 versions have
been replaced in this version with an illustration
of Coleridge. Extensive commentary by an unnamed
author. Some scholars attributed commentary to Cyrus
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Redding. Redding
edited the "Galignani Messenger" from 1815 - 1818. From 1820 to 1830 he
edited "The New Monthly Magazine". (Obituary: Athenaeum, 1870 p.742).
First published in 1829 by A. and W. Galignani, Paris.
Published in 1831 and 1832
by J. Griggs, Philadelphia. The 1846 and 1847 edition published by Crissy & Markley,
No. 4, Minor Street, Philadelphia. Printed by T. K. and P. G. Collins. Wright designed the title
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Poetical Works of
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Imagination and Fancy: or Selections From the
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Imagination and Fancy:
or Selections From the English Poets. Hunt begins
this volume with an essay "An Answer to the Question
What is Poetry?" He includes selections from
Spenser; Marlowe; Shakspeare; Ben Johnson; Beaumont
and Fletcher; Middleton, Decker and Webster; Milton;
Coleridge; Shelley; and Keats. This includes "The Eve of St. Agnes"
and Hunts Essay, first published in
"The Seer"
1840, but with modifications. Where his comments
were interspersed within Agnus in 1840, the
poem comes first, then Hunts essay with
minor modifications. He introduces the section on
Keats with a biography, and who better to write this
then this close supporter, colleague and friend. He
writes "Keats was born a poet... Repeated editions
of him in England, France, and America, attest its
triumphant survival of all obloquy; and there can be
no doubt that he has taken a permanent station among
British Poets, of a very high, if not thoroughly
mature,
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description. ...the Eve of Saint
Agnes still appears to me the most delightful and complete
specimen of his genius... It is young, but full-grown poetry
of the rarest description; graceful as the beardless Apollo;
glowing and gorgeous with the colours of romance. ...all
good things tend to pleasure in the recollection; when the
bitterness of their loss is past, their own sweetness
embalms them. ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.’" Wright
designed the title page for the 1896
Auvergne Press edition. Published as "New Edition,
Complete in one volume" in 1848 by George P. Putnam, 155
Broadway, New York. (First published in 1845 by Wiley and
Putnam, 161 Broadway, New York. Printed by R. Craighead’s
Power Press, 112 Fulton Street. Stereotyped by T. B. Smith,
216 William Street.) (Also published as "A New Edition" in
1891 by Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, London.) |
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Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats
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Life, Letters, and
Literary Remains, of John Keats. Edited by Richard
Monckton Milnes. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. (And) Vol.
II. (Both volumes published by Edward Moxon, Dover
Street, London. Bradbury and Evans, Printers,
Whitefriars. London.)
In 1848 it was also
published "Complete in One Volume" by George P.
Putnam, 155 Broadway, New York. Leavitt, Trow & Co.,
Printers. 49 Ann-street.
In 1867 it was
republished as The Life and Letters of John Keats.
By Lord Houghton. A New Edition. In One Volume.
(Published by Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street,
London. Bradbury, Evans, and Co., Printers,
Whitefriars. London.)
This was the first
biography written about John Keats. Volume one
begins with a dedication "To Francis Jeffrey, one of
the Senators of the College of Justice in Scotland.
Dear Lord Jeffrey, It is with great pleasure that I
dedicate to you these late memorials and relics of a
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man, whose early genius you did
much to rescue from the alternative of obloquy or oblivion.
The merits which your generous sagacity perceive under so
many disadvantages, are now recognised (sp) by every student
and lover of poetry in this country, and have acquired a
still brighter fame, in that other and wider England beyond
the Atlantic, whose national youth is, perhaps, more keenly
susceptible of poetic impressions and delights, than the
maturer and more conscious fatherland..." Volume one covers
through the summer of 1819. Volume two carries on and ends
with Keats’s Last Sonnet, Bright star. Original list price
14s (shillings). Digital and Printed versions. 3.7 x 6.25.
The 1867 version included
revisions and "A considerable portion of the Literary
Remains are inserted in this edition of the Life of Keats in
the places to which they naturally belong. The rest,
including the Dramatic pieces, will more fitly form part of
an editions of his collected Works, to be printed with this
volume." |
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of Madeline and Porphyro during the
Drunkenness Attending the Revelry”, Oil
on canvas, by William Holman Hunt.
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They glide, like phantoms, into
the wide hall; |
Like phantoms, to the iron porch,
they glide; |
Where lay the Porter, in uneasy
sprawl, |
With a huge empty flaggon by his
side; |
The wakeful bloodhound rose, and
shook his hide, |
But his sagacious eye an inmate
owns: |
By one, and one, the bolts full easy
slide:— |
The chains lie silent on the
footworn stones;— |
The key turns, and the door upon its
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And they are gone: ay, ages long
ago |
These lovers fled away into the
storm. |
That night the Baron dreamt of many
a woe, |
And all his warrior-guests, with
shade and form |
Of witch, and demon, and large
coffin-worm, |
Were long be-nightmar’d. Angela the
old |
Died palsy-twitch’d, with meagre
face deform; |
The Beadsman, after thousand aves
told, |
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. A New Edition. This volume is a reprint
of the 1840 and
1841 versions with
minor revisions. It combines "Endymion" published in
1818, "Lamia. Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes
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and other Poems" published in
1820, as well as miscellaneous poems, sonnets, epistles and
stanzas. Original list price, 2s (shillings) 6d (pence.) Published by Edward Moxon, Dover Street, London.
Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars, London. |
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Selections From The
British Classics. Shelley and Keats. The section on
Keats begins with a short biography by the
publisher. "...In 1818 he published his ‘Endymion;’
and this poem was so severely - nay, savagely,
criticized in the Quarterly Review, that the author
became excited in an extraordinary degree, ‘the
first effects of which,’ says Shelley, ‘are
described to me to have resembled insanity, and it
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assiduous watching that he was
restrained from suicide... In 1820, he published... ‘The Eve
of St. Agnes.’ These were reviewed by the critics with a
kinder spirit, and with an author less sensitive... It has
been truly said of Keats that He was a true poet... He
appears to be one of the greatest of self-taught poets."
Included is "The Eve of St. Agnes." Published by Arthur
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Moxon) 1848, 1854,
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In
1850 Edward Moxon
published a version of "The Poetical Works of John
Keats" that had previously been published in
1840 (Taylor) and
1841 (Smith). This
1854 edition, first published in 1848, was an
expanded version with an extensive "Memoir of John
Keats" by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton).
In 1848 it was originally Volume II, published along
with "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John
Keats" (Volume I). George Cupples
writes in the Eclectic Review "A new path may be
considered to open in the plan taken this season, by
a very elegant edition of Keats. No less than a
hundred and twenty designs... have here been on
wood
by George Scharf... The volume is not only a marvel
of wood-engraving, while it exhibits qualities
entitled to high
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praise, from the
artistic point of view...
Here Mr. Scharf, whose own designs are sometimes excellent,
stands yet higher in care for correct transference to the
block, with minuteness not to be surpassed..." (Apr 1860,
p370). Four
illustrations are related to "The Eve of St. Agnes". As in the other three volumes it combines "Endymion"
published in 1818, "Lamia. Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes
and other Poems" published in 1820, as well as miscellaneous
poems, sonnets, epistles and stanzas. Published by Edward
Moxon, Dover Street, London. Bradbury and Evans, Printers
Extraordinary To The Queen, Whitefriars. Published in 1855
by E. H. Butler & Co., Philadelphia. C. Sherman,
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Little) 1854 &
1863 |
The Poetical Works of Coleridge and Keats
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. With a Life. Similar versions were
published in
1840 (Taylor),
1841 (Smith),
1850 and
1854 (Moxon). This
1854 (and 1863) edition includes a portrait by George Scharf,
and begins with a comprehensive bibliography "The
Life of Keats" signed J. R. L. (James Russell
Lowell). The 1863 edition included an additional 21
Posthumous Poems and Sonnets not incorporated in the
1854 Little edition. As in the other volumes it combines "Endymion"
published in 1818, "Lamia. Isabella, The Eve of St.
Agnes and other Poems" published in 1820, as well as
miscellaneous poems, sonnets, epistles and stanzas,
with additional sonnets and posthumous poems not
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included in the earlier
editions.
Portrait of John Keats. Published by Little, Brown and Company,
Boston. Evans and Dickerson, New York. Lippincott, Grambo and Co., Philadelphia. Printed by H. O.
Houghton and Company, Riverside, Cambridge.
Stereotyped by Stone and Smart.
In 1877 this volume was
combined with Lowell’s work on Coleridge into two
volumes titled "The Poetical Works of Coleridge
and Keats." (Published by Hurd & Houghton, New
York, and H. O. Houghton & Co. Boston. Riverside
Edition. $3.50. It was republished in 1879 by
Houghton, Osgood & Co., Boston. The Riverside Press,
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Contributions To
The Edinburgh Review. By Francis Jeffrey, Now One of the Judges of the
Court of Sessions in Scotland. Four Volumes. Complete in One.
First published
in August 1820, Jeffrey reviewed "Lamia. Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes
and other Poems." Jeffrey writes "We... have been exceedingly struck
with the genius they (the poems) display, and the spirit of poetry which
breathes through all their extravagances... One of the sweetest of the
smaller poems is that entitled ‘The Eve of St. Agnes:’ though we can now
afford but a scanty extract.. Mr. Keats has unquestionably a very
beautiful imagination, a
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great familiarity with the finest diction of English poetry;
but he must learn not to misuse or misapply these
advantages; and neither to waste the good gifts of nature
and study on intractable themes, not to luxuriate too
recklessly on such as are more suitable." Published by
Phillips, Sampson, and Company, Boston. James C. Derby, New
York. Stereotyped by J. C. D. Christian & Co. C. Sherman &
Co., Printers. Republished in 1873 by D. Appleton and
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Eve of St Agnes" was published as a single volume.
Illustrated with Twenty engravings on wood,
from drawings by Edward H. Wehnert. Engraved by Horace
Harral, Thomas Bolton, and James Cooper. Bound in cloth,
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(Pennies). Published for Joseph Cundall. By
Sampson Low and Son, 47 Ludgate Hill, London. Printed by
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The Eve of St. Agnes. By John
Keats. Published in the America, this volume is a reprint of
the 1856 version published in London,
England, possibly in conjunction with Sampson Low and Son.
The 1856 London version was "Published for Joseph Cundall"
and included a stylized "JC" imprint on the verso of the
title page. This 1856 version lacks any mention of Joseph
Cundall, but includes the stylized imprint on the verso side
of the title page.
Illustrated with Twenty engravings on wood,
from drawings by Edward H. Wehnert. Engraved by Horace
Harral, Thomas Bolton, and James Cooper. From Appleton’s
catalog, 1860, p.90: "Keats’ whole works are flushed all
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of fancy, and so colored and
bestrewn with the flowers of poetry, that, even while
perplexed and bewitched in their labyrinths, it is
impossible to resist the intoxication of their sweetness, or
to shut our hearts to the enchantments they so lavishly
present." - Jeffreys. Cloth $1.50. In morocco, extra $3. Or
in tree calf, $3. Original list price $1.50. First Edition.
Hard Cover. Published By D. Appleton & Co. Broadway, New
York. Thick boards covered in dark blue cloth. Design
stamped into front and back cover, title gilt. Three sides
trimmed and gilt. Small overlapping "LJ" worked into the
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VI.
They told her
how, upon St. Agnes’ Eve, |
Young virgins might
have visions of delight, |
And soft adorings
from their loves receive |
Upon the honey’d
middle of the night, |
If ceremonies due
they did aright; |
As, supperless to bed
they must retire, |
And couch supine
their beauties, lily white; |
Nor look behind, nor
sideways, but require |
Of Heaven with upward
eyes for all that they desire. |
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America, this volume is a reprint of the 1856
version published in England. Minor changes include
a lest expensive cloth cover. The 1856 version was
"Published for Joseph Cundall" and included a
stylized "JC" imprint on the verso of the title
page. This 1857 version lacks any mention of Joseph
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title page. Illustrated with Twenty engravings on wood, from
drawings by Edward H. Wehnert. Engraved by Horace Harral,
Thomas Bolton, and James Cooper. Published By D. Appleton &
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of the 1856 version. Minor changes include a revised
elaborate gilt-stamped green leather cover, front
and back. The 1856 version was "Published for Joseph
Cundall" and included a stylized "JC" imprint on the
verso of the title page. This 1859 version lacks any
mention of Joseph Cundall, but includes the stylized
imprint on the verso side of the title page.
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wood, from drawings by
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and James Cooper. Gilt edges. Original price 7s (Shillings)
6d (Pennies). 5.25 x 7.75. Published By Sampson Low and Son,
47 Ludgate Hill, London. Printed by Richard Clay, Bread
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(Published By Sampson Low and Son, 47 Ludgate Hill,
London. Printed by Richard Clay, Bread Street Hill,
London). By John Keats. This volume is a reprint of
the 1856 version. Minor changes include boards
covered in a tan cloth with a decorative gilt cover.
The 1856 version was "Published for Joseph Cundall"
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version lacks any mention of Joseph Cundall, but
includes the stylized imprint on the verso side of
the title page. Illustrated with Twenty engravings
on wood, from drawings by
Edward H. Wehnert.
Engraved by Horace Harral, Thomas Bolton, and James
Cooper. Gilt edges. Original price 7s (Shillings) 6d
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Selections from The English Poets
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A republishing of "Imagination
and Fancy: or Selections From the English Poets",
first published in 1845, but under the shortened
title "Selections From The English Poets". This is
Volume II with 255 pages. The second half is Volume
3, same title, but the sub-title is "Imagination and
Fancy" with an essay titled "Wit and Humor" with 261
pages. Hunt begins this volume with an essay "An
Answer to the Question What is Poetry?" He includes
selections from Spenser; Marlowe; Shakspeare; Ben
Johnson; Beaumont and Fletcher; Middleton, Decker
and Webster; Milton; Coleridge; Shelley; and Keats.
This includes "The Eve of St. Agnes" and
Hunts Essay, first published in
"The Seer" 1840, but
with modifications. Where his comments were
interspersed within Agnus in 1840, the poem
in totality comes first, then Hunts essay with minor
modifications. He introduces the section on Keats
with a biography, and who better to write this then
this close supporter, colleague and friend. He
writes "Keats was born a poet... Repeated editions
of him in England, France, and America, attest its
triumphant survival of all obloquy; and there can be
no doubt that he
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station among British Poets, of a very high, if not
thoroughly mature, description. ...the Eve of Saint
Agnes still appears to me the most delightful and
complete specimen of his genius... It is young, but
full-grown poetry of the rarest description;
graceful as the beardless Apollo; glowing and
gorgeous with the colours of romance. ...all good
things tend to pleasure in the recollection; when
the bitterness of their loss is past, their own
sweetness embalms them. ‘A thing of beauty is a joy
for ever.’" 5 x 7.5. First Edition. Published by H.
W. Derby, 625 Broadway, New York. (First published
in 1845 as "Imagination
and Fancy: or Selections From the English Poets"
by Wiley and Putnam, 161 Broadway, New York. Printed
by R. Craighead’s Power Press, 112 Fulton Street.
Stereotyped by T. B. Smith, 216 William Street.) (Published
again in 1848 as a "New Edition, Complete in one
volume" by George P. Putnam, 155 Broadway, New
York.) (This volume was published again in 1891
entitled "Imagination and
Fancy: or Selections From the English Poets" as
"A New Edition" by Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo
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Atlantic Monthly, April
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The Atlantic
Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics. Volume XI. April
1863. "On The
Vicissitudes of Keats’s Fame" By Joseph Severn. Introduction "[...Shelley wrote in 1821: -
‘He [Keats] was accompanied to Rome and attended in his last illness by
Mr. Severn, a young artist of the highest promise...]" "I well remember
being struck with the clear and independent manner in which Washington
Allston, in the year 1818, expressed his opinion of John Keats’s verse,
when the young poet’s writings first appeared, amid the ridicule of most
English readers.
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Mr. Allston was at that
time the only discriminating judge among the
strangers to Keats who were residing abroad, and he
took occasion to emphasize in my hearing his opinion
of the early effusions of the yong poet in words
like these: - ‘They are crude materials of real
poetry, and Keats is sure to become a great poet.’
...in America he (Keats) has always had a solid
fame, independent of the old English prejudices."
Published by Ticknor and Fields, 185, Washington
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Little) 1863 |
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. With a Memoir, By James Russell Lowell.
First published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston
in 1854. Similar versions were published in 1840
(Taylor), 1841 (Smith), 1850 and 1854 (Moxon). This
1863 edition includes a
Portrait of John
Keats by George Scharf, and begins with a
comprehensive bibliography "The Life of Keats"
signed J. R. L. (James Russell Lowell). This 1863
edition included an additional 21 Posthumous Poems
and Sonnets not incorporated in the 1854 Little
edition. As in the other volumes it combines "Endymion"
published in 1818, "Lamia. Isabella, The Eve of St.
Agnes and other Poems" published in 1820, as well as
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miscellaneous poems,
sonnets, epistles and stanzas, with additional
sonnets and posthumous poems not included in the
earlier editions. In 1877 this volume was combined
with Lowell’s work on Coleridge into two volumes
titled "The Poetical Works of Coleridge and Keats."
Published by Hurd & Houghton, New York, and H. O.
Houghton & Co. Boston. Riverside Edition. $3.50. It
was republished in 1879 by Houghton, Osgood & Co.,
Boston. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Published by
Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stereotyped by H.
O. Houghton. Presswork by John Wilson & Son,
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VII.
Full of
this whim was thoughtful Madeline:
The music, yearning like a God in pain,
She scarcely heard: her maiden eyes divine,
Fix'd on the floor, saw many a sweeping train
Pass by---she heeded not at all: in vain
Came many a tiptoe, amorous cavalier,
And back retir'd; not cool'd by high disdain,
But she saw not: her heart was otherwhere;
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The Eve of St. Agnes. By
John Keats. Illustrated with Twenty engravings on wood,
from drawings by Edward H. Wehnert. Engraved by
Horace Harral, Thomas Bolton, and James Cooper.
Bound in burgundy cloth, gilt and black design on
the cover and spine. Edges trimmed and gilt. Dark
green end-pages. Pages are printed both sides of the
page, with a bound slip sheet between each page.
Undated, but full page catalogs dated (October,
1866) for "Sampson Low, Son,
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and Marston. Milton
House, Ludgate Hill, London," appeared in many
volumes at that time. That form of the publishers
name along with that address appeared between 1864
to 1868. Two page catalog for Sampson Low... appears
at the end of the volume. Original price 5s
(Shillings). Published by Sampson Low, Son, and
Marston, Milton House, 47 Ludgate Hill, London.
Printed by R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers, Bread
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The
Poetical Works of John Keats. With a Memoir by the
Right Hon. Lord Houghton. Illustrated by One Hundred
and Twenty Designs, Original and From the Antique,
Drawn on Wood by George Scharf, Jun., F.S.A.,
F.R.S.L Edward Moxon published a number of volumes
of The Poetical Work of John Keats in In 1850 Edward
Moxon published a version of "The Poetical Works of
John Keats." 1848, 1850, 1854 and 1855. This edition
is similar to the 1948, 1854 and 1855 editions. It
begins with an extensive "Memoir of John Keats" by
Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton). George
Cupples writes in the Eclectic Review of earlier
copies, "A new path may be considered to open in the
plan taken this season, by a very elegant edition of
Keats. No less than a hundred and twenty designs...
have here been
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on
wood by George Scharf... The volume is not only a
marvel of wood-engraving, while it exhibits
qualities entitled to high praise, from the artistic
point of view... Here Mr. Scharf, whose own designs
are sometimes excellent, stands yet higher in care
for correct transference to the block, with
minuteness not to be surpassed..." (Apr 1860, p370).
Red cloth over stiff boards. Cover design in black
and gilt. Text on spine is gilt. Edges trimmed and
gilt. Frontispiece is a portrait of John Keats From
a Portrait in Chalk by Wm. Hilton, R.A. Engraved by
Charles Wass.
(K6). There is also a second illustration of Keats,
drawn on wood by
George Scharf
(K11). Published by Edward Moxon and Co., Dover
Street, London. Printed by Woodfall and Kinder,
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Works of John Keats. With a Memoir by James Russell Lowell. First
copyrighted and published by Little, Brown and
Company in 1854. It was published again by Little,
Brown in 1863. This volume uses the plates from the
1863 edition. The frontispiece is a repeat of the
1854/1863 engraved
Portrait of John Keats.. This volume begins with
a comprehensive bibliography "The Life of Keats" by
James Russel Lowell. "Three men almost
contemporaneous with each other, Wordsworth,
Keats, and Byron, - were the great means of bringing
back English poetry from the sandy deserts of
rhetoric, and recovering for her triple inheritance
of simplicity, sensuousness, and passion... Keats
had the broadest mind, or at least his mind was open
on more sides, and he was able to understand
Wordsworth and judge Bryon, equally conscious,
through his artistic sense, of the greatnesses of
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one and the many littlenesses of the other... Keats certainly had
more of the penetrative and sympathetic imagination
which belongs to the poet, of that imagination which
identifies itself with the momentary object of its
contemplative, than any man of these later days...
His imagination was his bliss and bane... in him we
have an example of the renaissance going on almost
under our own eyes, and that the intellectual
ferment was in him kindled by a purely English
leaven.... Keats had an instinct for fine words,
which are in themselves pictures and ideas, and had
more of the power of poetic expression than any
modern English poet... The poems of Keats mark an
epoch in English poetry..."
Published by James Miller, New York.
Printed by Anderson & Ramsay, New York. Hard Cover.
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John Keats. With a Memoir. This edition is nearly an
exact reprint of the edition published in 1854 by
Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Evans and
Dickerson, New York. Lippincott, Grambo and Co.,
Philadelphia. The Contents through page 415 appear
to be the same plates. Pages 416 - 438 include the
additional 20 Sonnets published by Little, Brown and
Company, Boston, in 1863. This 1867 edition includes
a portrait of
John Keats, and begins with
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bibliography "The Life of Keats" signed J. R. L.
(James Russell Lowell). As in the earlier volumes it
combines "Endymion" published in 1818, "Lamia.
Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and other Poems"
published in 1820, as well as miscellaneous poems,
sonnets, epistles and stanzas. Hard Cover. Published
by Ticknor and Fields Boston. Part of the series
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A casement high and triple-arch’d
there was, |
All garlanded with carven imag’ries |
Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches
of knot-grass, |
And diamonded with panes of quaint
device, |
Innumerable of stains and splendid
dyes, |
As are the tiger-moth’s deep-damask’d
wings; |
And in the midst, ’mong thousand
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And twilight saints, and dim
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Full on this casement shone the
wintry moon, |
And threw warm gules on
Madeline’s fair breast, |
As down she knelt for heaven’s grace
and boon; |
Rose-bloom fell on her hands,
together prest, |
And on her silver cross soft
amethyst, |
And on her hair a glory, like a
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. Edited, With a critical Memoir, By
William Michael Rossetti.
Illustrated By Thomas Seccombe. This volume begins with a memoir by
Rossetti. He writes, "...A scribe in the Quarterly
Review - I believe it was the editor, Mr. Gifford -
undertook to write Keats down an ass, and many a
responsive bray, sounding loudest and most jubilant
from Blackwood’s Magazine, ratified the dictum at
the time; but lo! After a few years had elapsed, it
was found that the reviewer had only succeeded in
writing himself down an ass. The lash brandished
against Keats’s back had but recoiled, and scored
the more pachydermatous loins of Gifford." In 1820
"Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and other
Poems" was published. It was "received in a fairly
respectful tone; and a notice by Jeffrey shortly
appeared in the Edinburgh Review, calculated to
redress the stolid injustice previously done by the
Quarterly and by Blackwood." Published by E. Moxon,
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London. Second copy published by E. Moxon, Son, & Co.,
Dover Street, London. Printed by Sanson & Co.,
Edinburgh. Undated. Announcement of sale in "Notes and
Querries" November 23, 1872. "The first Volumes ready
will be Keats and Tupper..." Published as part of
Moxon’s Popular Poets Series. Original list price 3s 6d
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John Keats. Edited, With a critical Memoir, By
William Michael Rossetti.
Illustrated By Thomas Seccombe.
Frontispiece is an etched
portrait of
Keats. Two title pages. Full page facsimile of
Keats handwriting. Illustrated by Thomas Seccombe,
one relating to the Eve of St. Agnes. This volume
begins with a memoir by Rossetti. He writes, "...A
scribe in the Quarterly Review - I believe it was
the editor, Mr. Gifford - undertook to write Keats
down an ass, and many a responsive bray, sounding
loudest and most jubilant from Blackwood’s Magazine,
ratified the dictum at the time; but lo! After a few
years had elapsed, it was found that the reviewer
had only succeeded in writing himself down an ass.
The lash brandished against Keats’s back had but
recoiled, and scored the more pachydermatous loins
of Gifford." In 1820 "Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of
St. Agnes, and other Poems" was published. It was
"received in a fairly respectful tone; and a notice
by Jeffrey shortly appeared in the Edinburgh
Review, calculated to redress the stolid injustice
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Blackwood." Original list price 6s 6d (6 shillings, 6
pence.) Published by E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street,
and 1 Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, London. Printed by
Sanson & Co., Edinburgh. Undated. Announcement of sale
in "Notes and Querries" November 23, 1872. "The first
Volumes ready will be Keats and Tupper..." Published as
part of Moxon’s Popular Poets Series. Front and back
cover ivory enamel. Etched cover design in black and red
ink, and gilt. Metal edges three sides are gilt. (Hard
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. With a Memoir, By James Russell Lowell.
With Illustrations. First
copyrighted and published by Little, Brown and Company in 1854. It was
published again by Little, Brown in 1863. In 1867 James Miller
used the 1863 plate when he published the volume.
This volume uses the plates from the 1867, with a few minor
changes to the plates, and the addition of the red line border
and decorative designs. The frontispiece is an engraved portrait
of John Keats by G.J. Anderton after a portrait by Severn. This
volume begins with a comprehensive bibliography "The Life of
Keats" by James Russel Lowell. "Three men almost contemporaneous
with each other, -Wordsworth, Keats, and Byron, - were the great
means of bringing back English poetry from the sandy deserts of
rhetoric, and recovering for her triple inheritance of
simplicity, sensuousness, and passion... Keats had the broadest
mind, or at least his mind was open on more sides, and he was
able to understand Wordsworth and judge Bryon, equally
conscious, through his artistic sense, of the
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of the other... Keats certainly had more of the
penetrative and sympathetic imagination which belongs to
the poet, of that imagination which identifies itself
with the momentary object of its contemplative, than any
man of these later days... His imagination was his bliss
and bane... in him we have an example of the renaissance
going on almost under our own eyes, and that the
intellectual ferment was in him kindled by a purely
English leaven.... Keats had an instinct for fine words,
which are in themselves pictures and ideas, and had more
of the power of poetic expression than any modern
English poet... The poems of Keats mark an epoch in
English poetry..." It includes ten illustrations, three
of which relate to "The Eve of St, Agnes", by
Edward H. Wehnert, originally published in
1856, (Numbers 2, 11, 19). Entered according to Act of
Congress, in the year 1854, By Little, Brown and Company...
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Journal of America - October 1873, Vol. VI, No. 10
(Published by James Sutton & Co., Publishers, New
York) Engraving: Linton, Henry. After a
painting by Hunt, Holman. "The Eve of St. Agnes.
There is much of beauty, grace, and sentiment in the
beautiful picture from the brush of
William Holman Hunt,
which we reproduced for The Aldine. Nearly
twenty-five years ago Mr. Hunt began to paint those
religious and mystical pictures which have since
given him such a great reputation in his native
England, as well as abroad. ‘The Eve of
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these... His early works were adopted from poetry and
fiction, one of which, painted in 1848, was from Keats’s
‘St. Agnes’." There is only one problem. How could a major
art magazine in New York make such a grand mistake. This is
after a painting by Daniel Maclise,
1868 (below right), not Hunt, 1848. Original cover price 50
cents. 11.125 x 16.125. Pp Cover (191), 193.
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Recollections of John Keats, By Clarke (1874
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"Recollection of John
Keats." By Charles Cowden Clarke. "...It was about this period (1816) that, going to call upon
Mr. Leigh Hunt... I took with me two or three of the poems I had
received from Keats. I could not but anticipate that hunt would speak
encouragingly, and indeed approvingly, of the compositions - Written,
too, by a youth under age; but my partial spirit was not prepared for
the unhesitating and prompt admiration which broke forth before he had
read twenty lines of the first
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poem. Horance Smith happened to
be there on the occasion, and he was not less demonstrative
in his appreciation of their merits... Smith repeated with
applause the lines in italics, saying ‘What a well-condensed
expression for a youth so young!’" The Gentleman’s
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Part of The "Chandos
Classics" Series published by Frederick Warne and Co. Publishers’
Preface. The present Edition of Keats’ Poems is a complete reprint of
all his poems out of Copyright to the present time, and contains
considerably more than any other Non-copyright Edition yet published. It
begins with an anonymous Prefatory Memoir. "Whom the Gods love die
young," was the belief of antiquity; and such seems to have been, in
truth, the case when John Keats, the gifted and beloved, passed away in
the dawn of his life, after singing a few brief songs - the promise of a
glorious hereafter, destined never to be fulfilled. The tenderest
interest hovers over the memory of this
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young poet. Next to Chatterton's
his name has become a spell to move the warmest pity and sympathy in
English hearts, for his short life was not a happy one, and he died
without knowing that he had won the laurel of immortality..." Six wood
engraved illustrations by the Dalziel Brothers, one of which is for "The
Eve of St. Agnes." Published by Frederick Warne and
Co., Bedford Street, Strand, London. Scribner, Welford and Armstrong,
New York. Boards are bound in a dark blue cloth, stamped and printed in
black ink and gilt. Edges are trimmed and gilt three sides. 0000.24 |
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The
Eve of St. Agnes. Selected Poems. Part of the series
of Selected Poems. "This is an enterprise which
should receive the warmest support of all. Mr.
Tompkins proposes to print selections from our best
authors and to furnish these selections at ten cents
a copy When several poems are in a single number
there is no paging so that the purchaser may bind to
suit his own fancy. The paper and typographical work
is all that could be desired in the most expensive
book and the choice of selections has thus far been
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critical. As a means of making a book of selections far
superior to Parnassus or Dana's Household Book of Poetry or
Bryant's Library of Poetry and Song this enterprise is
certainly worthy of the attention of all lovers of books."
The Western, September 1875, p.587. No title page. Includes
one illustration by Edward H.
Wehnert, "The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold."
1956. Published by Kilbourne Tompkins, New York. (First
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Imagination and Fancy: or Selections From the English Poets, Hunt, Leigh; Keats, John.
Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; With
Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers,
and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What is Poetry?" By
Leigh Hunt. (Hard Cover) (Published by Smith, Elder, & Co., 15
Waterloo Place, London. Printed by Spottiswoode and Co.,
New-Street Square and Parliament Street, London.) (First
published in 1844 by Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place,
London.)
Hunt begins this volume with an essay "An Answer to the Question
What is Poetry!" He includes selections from Spenser; Marlowe;
Shakspeare; Ben Johnson; Beaumont and Fletcher; Middleton,
Decker and Webster; Milton; Coleridge; Shelley; and Keats. This
includes "The Eve of St.
Agnes"
and Hunt's Essay, first published in
"The
Seer" 1840, but with modifications. Where his comments were
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Agnes in 1840, the poem in totality comes first, then Hunts
essay with minor modifications. He introduces the section on
Keats with a biography, and who better to write this then
this close supporter, colleague and friend. He writes "Keats
was born a poet... Repeated editions of him in England,
France, and America, attest its triumphant survival of all
obloquy; and there can be no doubt that he has taken a
permanent station among British Poets, of a very high, if
not thoroughly mature, description. ...the Eve of Saint
Agnes still appears to me the most delightful and complete
specimen of his genius... It is young, but full-grown poetry
of the rarest description; graceful as the beardless Apollo;
glowing and gorgeous with the colours of romance. ...all good things tend to pleasure in the
recollection; when the bitterness of their loss is past, their
own sweetness embalms them. ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for
ever.’" (Fifth Edition) |
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Twenty illustrations by Edward H. Wehnert.
Engraved by Horace Harral, Thomas Bolton, and James
Cooper. Bound in brown cloth, gilt and black design
on the cover and spine. Edges trimmed and gilt.
Pages are printed both sides of the page, with a
bound slip sheet between each page. Undated, but
dated 1875 in "John
Keats, Catalogue of A Loan Exhibition,"
1921, p.29. A version of the volume
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was
published in 1956 for Joseph Cundall. By Sampson Low and Son
(S#0001.11); It was
published again in 1959 by Sampson Low and Son (S#0001.13);
and in 1866 by Sampson Low, Son, and Marston (S#0000.30).
Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, Crown
Building, 188, Fleet Street, London. Printed by R. Clay,
Son, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill, London. (First
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The Eve of St.
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The Eve of St. Agnes,
and Other Poems. By John Keats. Illustrated.
"We have rarely seen
anything more exquisite in the shape of miniature
editions of authors than the "Vest-Pocket Series."
Published as part of the Vest-Pocket Series. Also
includes nine other poems by Keats. "The Eve of St.
Agnes"
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artist. Green cloth, black and
gilt-stamped cover. Original list price $0.50. 3.4 x 4.9.
(First Edition) (Hard Cover) (Published by James R. Osgood
and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, &
Co., Boston. Printed by University Press: Welch, Bigelow, &
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Among My Books By James Russell Lowell (1876) |
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Among My Books.
Second Series. By James Russell Lowell, Professor of Belles-Lettres in
Harvard College. Hard Cover.
Of note is the book plate on the inside
front cover, the Boston Public Library, which includes the same logo, which
appears on the title page of the
1921 Keats Exhibition. Although
it was not officially listed in the catalogue in all probability this
copy was
highlighted as part of the library’s permanent collection.
This volume is
comprises of five biographies by Harvard Professor James Russell Lowell,
and include Dante, Spenser, Wordsworth, Milton and Keats. Of Keats he
writes, "Three men almost contemporaneous with each other, - Wordsworth,
Keats, and Byron, - were the great means of bringing back English poetry
from the sandy deserts of rhetoric, and recovering for her triple
inheritance of simplicity, sensuousness, and passion... Keats had the
broadest mind, or at least his mind was open on more sides, and he was
able to understand Wordsworth and judge Bryon, equally conscious,
through his artistic
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sense, of the greatnesses
of the one and the many littlenesses of the other... Keats
certainly had more of the penetrative and sympathetic
imagination which belongs to the poet, of that imagination
which identifies itself with the momentary object of its
contemplative, than any man of these later days... His
imagination was his bliss and bane... in him we have an
example of the renaissance going on almost under our own
eyes, and that the intellectual ferment was in him kindled
by a purely English leaven.... Keats had an instinct for
fine words, which are in themselves pictures and ideas, and
had more of the power of poetic expression than any modern
English poet... The poems of Keats mark an epoch in English
poetry..." Original list price $2.00.
Published by James R. Osgood and Company,
Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston. Printed by
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge. Electrotyped and
Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (1868, 1876 Moxon) |
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The Poetical
Works of John Keats. With a Memoir By Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton
Milnes). A New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition. Page proceeding Title
Page: Portrait by Joseph Severn, engraved by H. Robinson. (London:
Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1868.) First published
in 1868 by Edward Moxon, Dover Street, London. This edition is very
similar to the version Moxon published in 1854. It includes the
extensive "Memoir of John Keats" by Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes). It does not include the 120 designs by George Scharf, but
borders each page including the decorative corners
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page. Moxon expands this edition with additional Poems and Sonnets not
published in the 1854 edition. As in the 1854 edition, he combines "Endymion"
published in 1818, "Lamia. Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes
and other Poems" published in 1820, as well as miscellaneous
poems, sonnets, epistles and stanzas. Hard Cover. Published
by E. Moxon
and Co., I, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, London. Printed by Swift and
Co., Newton Street, High Holborn, W. C., London. Bound by Baker & Son.
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First copyrighted and published by Little, Brown and Company in
1854 and 1863. Miller used the plates from the 1863 printing and
published it in 1867. This volume uses the plates from the 1867
edition for the text with a few minor changes. Starting on page
299 the Sonnets were printed two to a page instead of one. Page
decorations have been added, some signed by Pasoa. The title
page is in two color. This volume begins with a comprehensive
bibliography "The Life of Keats" by James Russel Lowell. "Three
men almost contemporaneous with each other, - Wordsworth, Keats,
and Byron, - were the great means of bringing back English
poetry from the sandy deserts of rhetoric, and recovering for
her triple inheritance of simplicity, sensuousness, and
passion... Keats had the broadest mind, or at least his mind was
open on more sides, and he was able to understand Wordsworth and
judge Bryon, equally conscious, through his artistic
sense, of the greatnesses of the one
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and the
many littlenesses of the
other... Keats certainly had more of the penetrative and
sympathetic imagination which belongs to the poet, of that
imagination which identifies itself with the momentary object of
its contemplative, than any man of these later days... His
imagination was his bliss and bane... in him we have an example
of the renaissance going on almost under our own eyes, and that
the intellectual ferment was in him kindled by a purely English
leaven.... Keats had an instinct for fine words, which are in
themselves pictures and ideas, and had more of the power of
poetic expression than any modern English poet... The poems of
Keats mark an epoch in English poetry..." The Poetical
Works of John Keats. With a Memoir by James Russell Lowell.
Published by James Miller, New York. Printed by Anderson &
Ramsay, New York. Trimmed and gilt three sides. (First Edition) |
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Letters of John Keats to Fanny
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Keats's Love Letters. No man's love letters – no
woman's for that matter – ought to be published
without the author's consent, except for very
weightily sufficient reasons. Least of all ought the
love-letters of such a man as John Keats, in whom
the tender passion must have taken a very morbid
form and found a most unnatural expression. Keats
has now been dead more than half a century; the
Fanny Brawne whom he loved has been dead we know not
how long also; and with one or the other of them
these letters should have been buried. Doubtless the
bones of the saints have an interest for the
faithful as but does that interest constitute
adequate reason for disinterring and exhibiting
them. In the case of letters like these cremation
would be even better than burial. Miss Brawne was a
young lady of good family who lived with her widowed
mother and a brother and sister in Wentworth Place.
Hampstead a few miles out of London. Here Keats met
her in the summer of 1818. He fell desperately in
love with her ‘madly' so as these letters evince,
and an engagement of marriage resulted. The marriage
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Keats was trammeled by his circumstances and his health, and
in 1820 was driven to Italy in search of a friendlier clime,
where, after lingering a few months, he died. Of the letters
he wrote to Miss Brawne during this period thirty seven are
here printed. In date they fall between the summer of 1819
and the time for his departure for Italy. In length they
range from half a dozen lines to several pages. They were
written by turns from the Isle of Wight, from Winchester,
from London and from the house next to the Brawne's at
Hampstead where Keats was at one time domiciled with his
friend Charles Armitage Brown. Sparsely printed as they are
here they fill about one hundred pages..." The Literary
World, Boston, April 1, 1878, p.187. Cover: Blue cloth,
stamped illustration, gilt letters and illustration.
Frontispiece is an engraving of a
Portrait of Keats on
His Death Bed (K7B), From a Drawing by Joseph Severn.
Written in the Years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and Now Given From
the Original Manuscripts with Introduction and Notes By
Harry Buxton Forman. Published by Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
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Works of John Keats, Hard Cover. The first half of this volume
encompasses five major poems, including, Endymion,
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Hyperion.
The last half consist of 44 miscellaneous poems, The
cap and Bells, Otho the Great and King Stephen.
There are 17 decorative illustrations by an unnamed
artist. The cover in green cloth, with a stamped,
black and gilt design. Back cover has a stamped
design only. This volume appears to be part of a
larger series, all undated, with the same cover
design. "Poetical Works of Byron" is dated 1878 by
Google, and stamped "Bodleiam
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Library, 12 May 83, Oxford".
"Poetical Works of Pope" is dated 1878 by Google and is
stamped "Bodleiam Library, 112 May 83, Oxford". "Poetical
Works of Coleridge" is dated 1882 by Google and is stamped "Bodleiam
Library, 11 May 83, Oxford". They possibly coincides with
Ward & Lock’s "Books for All Time" Series: #15 Keats. #17
Byron, #22 Pope and #24 Coleridge. Published by Ward, Lock,
& Co., Warwick House, Dorset Building, Salisbury Square, E.C.,
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The Seer; or, Common-Places Refreshed (1878
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Common-Places Refreshed, In Two Volumes. Vol. I &
II, by Leigh Hunt. "Preface. The following Essays
have been collected, for the first time, from such
of the author’s periodical writings as it was
thought might furnish another publication similar to
the Indicator. Most of them have been taken
from the London Journal; and the remainder
from the Liberal, the Monthly Repository,
the Tatler and the Round Table... this
19th day of October , 1840." Comprised of Vol. I &
II, bound together in one volume. "The Eve of St.
Agnes" is in Volume II. Hunt intersperses his
commentary through out the poem. The essay was first
published in the London
Journal, January 21, 1835.
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The last page of the version
published by Auvergne Press
in 1896 notes: "Leigh Hunt published in 1840 a delightful
collection of Essays selected from many he had written for
the London Journal; and the remainder from the
Liberal, the Monthly Repository, the Tatler
and the Round Table. The volume was called: The
Seer; or, Common-Places Refreshed. His motto he selected
from Shakepeare (m.s.) "Love adds a precious seeing to the
eye." The book is rarely seen, and, perhaps, more rarely
read. We have rambled through it, and have selected for
re-print his gentle reading of a fellow poet. W. & W.
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University Press: John
Wilson & Son. Ad in The Literary World. Volume IX.
June, 1878 - December, 1879. Ad for University
Press: John Wilson & Son, in The Literary World. May
24, 1879, page 176, June 21, 1879, page 208.
"University Press: John Wilson & Son. University
Press, Established 1639. Press of John Wilson & Son,
Established 1847. Cambridge, April 15, 1879."
University Press was established in 1639. John
Wilson & Son was established in 1847. On April 15,
1879 Wilson purchased UP. "It is with pleasure that
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friends and the public that we
have purchased the right, title and Printing Material of the
long-established firm of Welch, Bigelow & Co., known as the
'University Press' and that we have associated with us Mr.
Charles E. Wentworth, formerly of Soule, Thomas & Wentworth,
of St. Louis... With increased facilities for executing Fine
Woodcut Printing..." Original cover price 10 Cents. The
Literary World was Published Bi-Weekly by E. H. Hames & Co.,
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The Eve of St.
Agnes. By John Keats. Illustrated in Nineteen Etchings. By Charles O.
Murray. Dark Warm Gray Cloth Hard Cover. "Few poets have
ever gained a deeper hold on the affections of their readers than John
Keats; and it is with a feeling almost of personal gratulation that
these will view the new edition of ‘The Eve of St. Agnes.’ in which that
sweetest and tenderest of poems appears with sumptuous provisions of
print and paper, and illustrated with nineteen beautiful etchings by
Charles O. Murray. So delicately fine are these designs, and so
harmonious are all the details of the book, one hesitates to describe or
praise it, but feels rather like going at once and bringing his and
Keats’s dearest friend, and saying in triumph, ’Look!’ The honor of the
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publication of this work
belongs to Sampson, Low & Co., of London..." (Dial,
Dec 1880 p.160). "Thoroughly artistic and appealing
to the most cultured taste; a really beautiful
book." (p.168). Includes two title pages. Printed
one side only on stiff paper with tissue bound in
front of each illustration. Each Stanza begins with
large, decorative initial. Each illustration is
bordered by impress of metal plate. Original list price 2 (£). Also published by Sampson, Low,
Marston, Searle, and Rivington was a "Large-Paper Edition. Proof
Impressions on Japanese paper, bound in vellum, of which only 50 copies
exist." 3 (£) 3 (Shillings). Large size, 10.5 x 14.25. (First Edition)
Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington,
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Agnes. By John Keats. Illustrated in Nineteen Etchings. By Charles O.
Murray. Two versions: Burgundy and Dark Green Cloth Hard Cover. "Few poets have
ever gained a deeper hold on the affections of their readers than John
Keats; and it is with a feeling almost of personal gratulation that
these will view the new edition of ‘The Eve of St. Agnes.’ in which that
sweetest and tenderest of poems appears with sumptuous provisions of
print and paper, and illustrated with nineteen beautiful etchings by
Charles O. Murray. So delicately fine are these designs, and so
harmonious are all the details of the book, one hesitates to describe or
praise it, but feels rather like going at once and bringing his and
Keats’s dearest friend, and saying in triumph, ’Look!’ The honor of the
publication of this work belongs to Sampson, Low & Co., of London; and
Dodd, Mead & Co. are the
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importers of an
American imprint edition."
(Dial, Dec 1880 p.160). "Thoroughly artistic and appealing to the most
cultured taste; a really beautiful book." (p.168). Includes two title
pages, Dodd and Sampson. Printed one side only on stiff paper with
tissue bound in front of each illustration. Each Stanza begins with
large, decorative initial. Each illustration is bordered by impress of
metal plate. Large size, 10.5 x 14.25. Original list price 2 (£); $10.
Also published by Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington was a
"Large-Paper Edition. Proof Impressions on Japanese
paper, bound in vellum, of which only 50 Copies
exist." 3 (£) 3 (Shillings). Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle,
and Rivington, Crown Building, Fleet Street, London.
And Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York. (First
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Harper’s Magazine January 1880 |
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First published in 1820 and rejected by the critics. It is the first
article published in this issue. Keats based his poem on the tale that a
girl could see her future husband in a dream if she performed certain
rituals on the eve of St. Agnes. Includes nine illustrations by E. A.
Abbey. Eighth
illustration: "Pensive awhile she dreams awake." (Note: No
where in this issue does Harper's credit the authors or illustrators for
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any of the article printed.) This is the poem that Winslow and
Williams, two of Wright’s clients chose to publish for their first
volume at Auvergne Press in
1896. Wright designed the title page and Printer’s Device for the book.
Original cover price $4 per year (33c per issue). Harper’s
Magazine - January 1880. Published monthly by Harper & Brothers, New
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Harper’s Magazine -
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Harper’s Magazine - January 1880 (Page
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"Pensive Awhile She Dreams
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Worthington)
Circa 1880 |
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. With a Memoir by James Russell Lowell.
With Illustrations. This is a reprint of the edition
published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston in
1863. The 1863 edition included an additional 21
Posthumous Poems and Sonnets not incorporated in the
1854 Little edition. Earlier versions were published
in
1840 (Taylor),
1841 (Smith),
1850 and
1854 (Moxon). In
the 1854 and
1863 Little
editions, the memoir "The Life of Keats" was signed
J. R. L. His name
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is included on the title
page. There are also four illustrations by an
unnamed artist in this circa 1880 edition. As in the
other volumes it combines "Endymion" published in
1818, "Lamia. Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and
other Poems" published in 1820, miscellaneous poems,
sonnets, epistles and stanzas, as-well-as the
additional 21 Posthumous Poems and Sonnets published
in the 1863 Little edition. Published by R.
Worthington, New York. |
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The Poetical Works of
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Lovell)
1880 |
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The Poetical
Works of John Keats. Part of Lovell’s
"Editions of the Poets, Red Line Edition". "These are without doubt the
finest editions of the Poets ever issued in this country at a low price
.The plates are all new beautiful clear type the paper very good and the
binding the best and handsomest that could be designed." From an Ad,
Publisher’s Weekly, January 29, 1881. Begins with Keats Preface to "Endymion",
dated April 10, 1818, Teignmouth. Includes "The Eve of St. Agnes"
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pages 185 - 199. Five
etched illustrations by an unnamed illustrator
(possibly Francis T. Palgrave), one of which relates to "The Eve of St.
Agnes". Bound in cloth, the cover and spine design is stamped in black
and gold, pages are trimmed and have gilt edges. Each page is bordered
with four red lines. The plates were used again in by
Thomas Y.
Crowell in circa 1882, and Belford, Clarke & Co., 1884.
Original list price $1.25. Published by John Wurtele Lovell,
Publishers, New York. |
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats
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The Poetical Works of
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John Keats. A Study 1880 |
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John Keats. A Study. By
F. M. Owen. Of "The Eve of St. Agnes" Owen writes,
"is told with a richness of detail, an exquisite
poise of imagination, a reticence which controls its
enthusiastic expansion, and a grace and purity and
calm which modulate its passion. It is one of the
best known of the poems of Keats, and rightly, for
it appeals strongly to our human feeling, though it
lacks, because it does not need, the
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prophetic element of
‘Endymion’ and ‘Hyperion’. The ‘Eve of St Agnes’ is
the most picturesque of all the poems of Keats, its
descriptions by far the most artistic." Published by
C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1 Paternoster Square, London.
Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square
and Parliament Street, London. |
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John Keats. A Study
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John Keats. A Study
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Modern Classics, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other
Poems (1881 & 1890) |
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Modern Classics.
Characteristics. By Thomas Carlyle. Favorite Poems.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Eve of St. Agnes, and
Other Poems. By John Keats. In the "Catalog of
Books Published by Houghton, Mifflin", 1881, (p
145) this is part of the "Modern Classic Series"
32 volume set. No. 19 is divided into three parts,
each numbered separately. The Eve of St. Agnes
includes
six illustrations by an unnamed
artist. James Russell Lowell is
quoted "The poems of Keats mark an epoch in English poetry. In him a
vigorous understanding developed itself in equal measure with the divine
faculty; thought emancipated itself from expression without becoming its
tyrant; and music and meaning floated together, accordant as swan and
shadow, on the smooth element of his verse. We recognize in Keats that
indefinable newness and unexpected which we call genius." (p.118) The
plates for The Eve of St. Agnes were originally published as a single
volume in 1876 by James R. Osgood.
Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1890: Modern Classics.
Characteristics. By Thomas Carlyle. Favorite Poems.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Eve of St. Agnes, and
Other Poems. By John Keats. Originally published in
1881. Published as part of a 34 volume set. No. 19
is divided into three parts,
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each numbered separately. The Eve of St.
Agnes includes
six illustrations by an unnamed
artist. In the Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1881
Catalogue of Books (p.118) James Russell Lowell is quoted "The
poems of Keats mark an epoch in English poetry. In him a
vigorous understanding developed itself in equal measure with
the divine faculty; thought emancipated itself from expression
without becoming its tyrant; and music and meaning floated
together, accordant as swan and shadow, on the smooth element of
his verse. We recognize in Keats that indefinable newness and
unexpected which we call genius." The end pages include a list
of 34 volumes included in the Modern Classics. An ad in the
November 22, 1890, Publisher’s Weekly, page 6, announced "A new
volume of Modern Classics (No. 34)". Published by Houghton,
Mifflin and Company, Boston. The Riverside Press, Cambridge.) |
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The Eve of St. Agnes
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Household Friends for Every Season (1881) |
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Household Friends For
Every Season. This title was first published in 1864
by Ticknor and Fields. Stereotyped and Printed by
University Press: Welch,
Bigelow and Company, Cambridge, but lacked Keats’
"The Eve of St. Agnes". In 1871 it was republished
without changes by James R. Osgood and Company,
Boston. Late Ticknor & Fields, And Fields, Osgood, &
Co. Stereotyped and Printed by
University Press:
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Welch, Bigelow and
Company, Cambridge. It was republished again in 1881
with changes by James R. Osgood and Company, Boston.
Originally included were 32 authors and an example
of their work. This 1881 version included 32
authors, and added John Keats’ "The Eve of St.
Agnes". Published by James R. Osgood and Company,
Boston. Printed by University
Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge. |
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The Eve of St. Agnes (1882) |
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The Choice Series, a
set of fourteen books, one of which was "The Eve of
St. Agnes", was first published in 1875 (right) by
Cassell, Petter & Galpin, New York. An ad by Cassell,
Petter & Galpin in the December, 1875 (Christmas)
issue of Publisher’s Weekly, page 844, announced New
Books, included The Choice Series and "The Eve of
St. Agnes". Each sold for $1.25. John Cassell, a
publisher had added two partners to form Cassell,
Petter & Galpin. In 1878 with the addition of a new
partner, Robert Turner, the firm became Cassell,
Petter, Galpin & Co. The address was 596 Broadway,
New York. In the January 15, 1881 issue of P.W, page
43, they announced a move to new quarters at 739-741
Broadway, New York. An ad in the Sept. 15, 1882
issue of Publisher’s Weekly, page 514, announced New
Editions from Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. which
included The Choice Series, in "new and handsome
binding", $1.00 each. The set included the same
fourteen books published in 1875, one of which was
this volume of "The Eve of St. Agnes". The title
page does not reference the new address, but the
old, 596 Broadway. C.P.G. & Co. ran an ad in the
January 29, 1881 issue of Publisher’s Weekly listing
the "books published in 1880", and no mention of
"The Choice Series". Taking all of this into
consideration, it seems safe to assume that this
volume was published in 1882. A date inscribed on
the front fly leaf is dated December 25, 1883. In
1888 the company’s name was changed again to Cassell
& Co, Ltd.
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Cover and
Title Page for "The Eve of St. Agnes",
published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin
(1975). Printed by R. Clay, Sons and
Taylor, Printers, London. |
Illustrated by Edward
H. Wehnert (but no credit given to him); Engraved by
Horace Harral, Thomas Bolton, and James Cooper.
Published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co., 596,
Broadway, New York. Printed by R. Clay, Sons and
Taylor, Printers, London.) Cloth cover, beveled
edges, blind stamped with black vine and gilt
letters. Trimmed and gilt edges three sides. Blank
pages are inserted every other page, between each
printed page. Printed pages heavier stock, blank
pages light stock. Edward H. Wehnert illustrations,
engraved by Horace Harral, Thomas Bolton, and James
Cooper, were first published in 1956. |
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The Eve of St. Agnes
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (1882 Roberts
Brothers) |
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Chronologically arranged
and edited, with a memoir by Lord Houghton (Richard
Monckton Milnes), D. C. C., Hon. Fellow of Trin.
Coll., Cambridge. "The object of the chronological
arrangement of this edition, and the consequent
insertion of some pieces of comparatively little
value, is to present a faithful self-drawn literary
picture of the short and sad poetical life. Had
Keats lived to maturity his claim on the larger
sympathies of mankind... This volume alone contains
all his works..." The volume begins with the
Houghton Memoir. "The Life, Letters, and
Literary Remains of John Keats, published first in
1848, and in
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a more complete form in
1867, contained the biography of the poet, mainly
conveyed in the language of his own
correspondence... The ‘Adonais’ of Shelley remains
the immortal literary monument of the life, work,
and sorrows of John Keats." The frontispiece is a
portrait
etching of
John Keats by "Andrew-Sc", adapted from a
portrait by Joseph Severn. Each page is bordered in
a red box with decorative corners. Published by
Roberts Brothers, Boston. Printed by University
Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge. |
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The Poetical Works of
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The Poetical Works of John Keats
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Roberts
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats, Chronologically arranged and edited,
with a memoir by Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton
Milnes), D. C. C., Hon. Fellow of Trin. Coll.,
Cambridge. Editor’s Note. "The object of the
chronological arrangement of this edition, and the
consequent insertion of some pieces of comparatively
little value, is to present a faithful self-drawn
literary picture of the short and sad poetical life.
Had Keats lived to maturity his claim on the larger
sympathies of mankind... This volume alone contains
all his works..." The volume begins with the
Houghton Memoir. "The Life, Letters, and Literary
Remains of John Keats, published first in 1848, and
in a more complete form in 1867,
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contained the biography
of the poet, mainly conveyed in the language of his
own correspondence... The ‘Adonais’ of Shelley
remains the immortal literary monument of the life,
work, and sorrows of John Keats." Includes an
etching of John
Keats by "Andrew-Sc", adapted from a portrait by
Joseph Severn. Each page is bordered in a red box
with decorative corners. Hard cover. Published by
Roberts Brothers, Boston. Printed by University
Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge. Blue cloth,
gilt and black stamped design on cover and spine.
Edges are trimmed and gilt. Red line borders each
page. First Edition. |
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Crowell - Circa
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The Poetical Works of John Keats. Not dated, circa 1882.
Part of Crowell’s Red Line Poets, including 50 different
volumes. Begins with Keats Preface to "Endymion", dated April
10, 1818, Teignmouth. Includes "The Eve of St. Agnes" pages 185
- 199. Six etched illustrations by the
Dalziel Brothers, one of which relates to "The
Eve of St. Agnes". Inscribed and dated on the FFEP,
Dec. 25th, 1890. Reported copy: "Owen Meredith. Same
cover design, inscribed October 21, 1882. Original
list price $1.25. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell &
Co., No. 13 Astor Place, New York. Gilt edges, Red
Line borders, Illustrated and elegantly bound. Green
cloth, gilt design on cover and spine. Ad
advertisement in 1882 announced the sale of
Crowell's Red Line edition.
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Crowell - Circa
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Possibly a version of Crowell’s Red Line
Poets, including 50 different volumes. Exactly the same as (0000.06),
except for the cover. This volume begins with Keats Preface to "Endymion",
dated April 10, 1818, Teignmouth. Includes "The Eve of St. Agnes" pages
185 - 199. Six wood engraved illustrations by the Dalziel Brothers,
one of which is
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for "The Eve of St.
Agnes." Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., No. 13
Astor Place, New York. Gilt edges, Red Line borders
each page, Illustrated and elegantly bound. Tan
cloth, gilt and black stamped design on cover and
spine. (Version two) |
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The Poetical Works of
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The Eve of St. Agnes (1883 & 1884) |
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"But who would part with
what he has left us, let the faults be what they
may? No works of our literature are more truly
poetical, none more completely carry one away into
an ideal realm, where worldly noises come to the
ear, it they reach it al all, subdued and deadened;
none breathe out of them, and around them, a more
bewitching atmosphere." Part of the English Classics
Series (No. 40), with philological and explanatory
notes by J. W. Hales, M. A., late fellow and
assistant
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tutor
of Christ’s College, Cambridge; Barrister at-law of
Lincoln’s Inn; Lecturer in English literature and
classical composition at King’s College, London.
Published by Clark & Maynard, Publishers, 734
Broadway, New York. |
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The Eve of St. Agnes
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In
1885, Estes & Lauriat published The Eve of St.
Agnes, including twenty illustrations by Edmund H.
Garrett. In 1889, Estes & Lauriat
published a volume of American Artist. "American Artists and
Their Works. A series of Etchings, Photo-Etchings, Photogravures
and Engravings after Designs and Paintings by the Most
Celebrated Artists with Descriptive and Biographical Text by
Leading American Art Writers." This volume includes "St. Agnes’ Maid."
Text from the descriptive page: "St. Agnes’ Maid." From a drawing
by Edmund H. Garrett. Illustrating a Scene in the ‘Eve of St.
Agnes,’ by john Keats. Illustration appears to be
Photogravures pulled from a copper plate.
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The Eve of St.
Agnes, Stanza XXV: Full on this casement shone the
wintry moon, And threw warm gules on
Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt
for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell
on her hands, together prest, And on her
silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair
a glory, like a saint: She seem'd a splendid
angel, newly drest, Save wings, for
heaven:---Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so
pure a thing, so free from mortal aint.
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Keats's Isabella and The Eve of St. Agnes (1889) |
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Part of the Oxford Plain Texts Series.
Edited by A. T. Quiller-Couch. Red cloth, black border and
text on cover. Includes two poems, |
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Isabella, Or, The Pot of Basil and The
Eve of St. Agnes. Original cover price Fourpence. Published
by Oxford At the Clarendon Press. |
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Keats's
Isabella and The Eve of St. Agnes
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First published
in 1883 by Clark & Maynard. "But who
would part with what he has left us, let the faults be what
they may? No works of our literature are more truly
poetical, none more completely carry one away into an ideal
realm, where worldly noises come to the ear, it they reach
it al all, subdued and deadened; none breathe out of them,
and around them, a more bewitching atmosphere." Part of the
English Classics Series (No. 40 of 78), with philological
and explanatory notes by J. W. Hales, M. A., late fellow and
assistant tutor of Christ’s College, Cambridge; Barrister
at-law of Lincoln’s Inn; Lecturer in English literature and
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Purchased along with eleven others English
Classic Series volumes. Third Edition. Published by
Effingham Maynard & Co., Successors to Clark & Maynard,
Publishers, 771 Broadway and 67 & 69 Ninth St., New York. |
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The Eve of St. Agnes
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The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John
Keats. Vol. I (1883
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The Poetical Works and
Other Writings of John Keats. Now first brought
together, Including poems and numerous letters not
before published. Edited with notes and appendices
by Harry Buxton Forman. In four volumes.
(See Volume I) Volume II
begins with "Keats’s third and last book, issued in
the summer of 1820 ‘Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.
Agnes’". Reprinted page for page, Forman has added
commentary plus footnotes related to the original
manuscript . The lines have been numbered: 5, 10,
15, 20, etc. "In a letter to George Keats and his
wife dated the 14th of February (1819),
Keats says that he took with him to Chichester,
where he had been staying in January, "some of the
thin paper, and wrote on it a little poem called
‘St. Agnes’ Eve,’ which you will have as it is, when
I have finished the blank part of the rest for you.’
The balance of Volume II includes poems and
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sonnets, as well
as thirteen appendixes.
Appendix I: Hunt’s review of "Lamia, Isabella and
Eve" first published in "The Indicator", 1820.
Appendix II: "Later remarks on Keats by Leigh Hunt"
was first published by Smith, Elder, and Co., London
in 1844, entitled
"Imagination
and Fancy". He writes "Keats was born a
poet... Repeated editions of him in England, France,
and America, attest its triumphant survival of all
obloquy; and there can be no doubt that he has taken
a permanent station among British Poets, of a very
high, if not thoroughly mature, description. ...the
Eve of Saint Agnes still appears to me the most
delightful and complete specimen of his genius..."
Portrait of Keats engraved by C. Wass from a chalk
drawing by William Hilton R.A. Published by Reeves &
Turner, 196 Strand, London, Printed by Chiswick
Press, C. Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery
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The Poetical Works of
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The Letters and Poems of John Keats (1883 Dodd,
Mean & Co.) |
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The Letters and Poems of
John Keats. In Three Volumes. Vol. II & Vol. III.
Published as a three volume set, "With the
annotations of Lord Houghton, and a memoir by Jno.
Gilmer Speed." Volume I was sub-titled "The Letters
of John Keats". Volumes II and III were sub-titled
"The Poems of John Keats, Vol. I and II". Volume II
contains a 22 page
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Memoir on the life
an work of John Keats, written by Speed. Volume III
contains "The Eve of St. Agnes". Published by
Dodd, Mean & Company, New York. Printed by the Press of Theo. L. De Vinne & Co., New York. |
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The Letters and Poems
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The Poetical Works John Keats (1884 Belford, Clark
& Co.) |
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. Reprinted from the latest revised
edition. Illustrated. Part of The "Arundel Poets"
series published by Belford, Clarke & Co. Begins
with Keats Preface to "Endymion", dated April 10,
1818, Teignmouth. Includes "The Eve of St. Agnes"
pages 185 - 199. Six etched illustrations by the
Dalziel Brothers, one of which
relates to "The Eve of St. Agnes". Each
page is bordered with
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four red lines and uses the same black plates
as The Poetical Works of John
Keats published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.,
New York, circa 1882. Published by Belford, Clarke &
Co., Chicago and New York. Printed and bound by
Donohue & Henneberry, Chicago. Burgandy cloth, gilt
and green design embossed on cover and spine. |
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The Poetical Works of
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (DeWolfe) 1884 |
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. Similar titles were published in
1840 (Taylor),
1841 (Smith),
1850 and
1854 (Moxon),
1854 (Little).
This 1884 edition includes five illustrations by an
unnamed artist. One illustration relates to "The Eve
of St. Agnes" (page 199). Although the artist is not
identified, the illustration by Edward H. Wehnert
was first published for Joseph Cundall, by Sampson
Low and Son, London, in 1856, entitled
"When they St.
Agnes' wool are weaving piously". As in the
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other volumes it
combines "Endymion" published in 1818, "Lamia. Isabella, The
Eve of St. Agnes and other Poems" published in 1820,
as well as miscellaneous poems,
sonnets, epistles and stanzas, with additional
sonnets and posthumous poems not included in the
earlier editions. Published by DeWolfe, Fiske &
Company, 365 Washington Street, Boston. |
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The Poetical Works of
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (MacMillan) 1884, 1885,
1886, 1889, 1892 |
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The Poetical
Works of John Keats. Reprinted From The Original Editions With Notes by
Francis T. Palgrave. This version of
"The Poetical Works of John Keats" begins with a short introduction by
Francis T. Palgrave, dated August 1884, and ends with his extensive note
on Keats writings. Palgrave also arranges Keats writings according to
when they were published; 1817, 1818, 1820 and "Posthuma"
(published after his death). He also includes "A
drawing by the great and tender-souled
Flaxman... to enable me to please myself by prefacing Keats with a
design which is so much in harmony with
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his own art, in point of
grandeur and of beauty." Published by MacMillan and Co., London.
Reprinted in 1886, 1889, and 1892. A
Large Paper Edition was published in 1885. (Cover is
pictured to the right.) ("Two Hundred and Fifty
copies of this Large Paper Edition were Printed in August 1885". Published by
MacMillan and Co. Printed by R. & R. Clark,
Edinburgh.) |
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The Poetical Works of
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Crowell 1884) |
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The
Poetical Works of John Keats. Reprinted From The
Original Editions With Notes by Francis T. Palgrave,
Professor of Poetry in The University of Oxford.
Cover: Select Poems of John Keats. This version of
"The Poetical Works of John Keats" begins with a
short introduction by Francis T. Palgrave, dated
August 1884, and ends with his extensive notes on
Keats writings. Palgrave also arranges his
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writings in the order they were published; 1817,
1818, 1820 and "Posthuma" (published after his
death). This American version included notes to
correspond with the printing of the English version
printed by MacMillan and Co., London. Leather cover
with gilt design. Top edge trimmed and gilt.
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. Given From His Own Editions and Other
Authentic Sources and Collated With Many
Manuscripts. Edited by Harry Buxton Forman. Where
the 1883 Reeves
editions comprised four volumes, this 1884 is a
single volume. This volume begins with the extensive
Editor’s Preface, dated December 1883. Forman
writes: "The manuscripts of Endymoin, Lamia, The
Eve of St. Agnes and portions of Isabella
should be mentioned as especially important among a
great mass of manuscripts which have been
consulted... Hunt, in his admirable remarks upon
The Eve of St. Agnes, points to the fainting of
Porphyre at sight of Madeline as the one flaw in the
poem, and
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apologizes for it
on the score of the poet’s enfeebled state of health
at the time. But I think this is rather hard on all
three - poem, poet and disease. If it be so decided
a fault, I fear we must acquit bodily disease of any
part or lot in it, for Keats’s young people always
had a way of fainting, whether conceived in his more
vigorous or in his less vigorous period..."
` by Joseph Severn: etched by W. B. Scott
from a Miniature in the possession of the Editor.
Published by Reeves & Turner, 196 Strand, London,
Printed by Chiswick Press, C. Whittingham and Co.,
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. Edited By William T. Arnold. This
edition of "The Poetical Works of John Keats" was
"arranged and planned in all its essential features
in 1880. Its appearance has been delayed by
unforeseen causes, of which the fire at the
publishing offices was the chief." This volume
begins with an extensive introduction and notes on
the text by William T. Arnold. He also arranges
Keats’ writings in the order they were published;
1817, 1818,
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1820 and
"Posthumous Poems and Sonnets" (published after his
death). The portrait prefixed to this edition is an
etching by Mr. S. H. Llewellyn, after a painting by
Wm. Hilton, R.A., based on a miniature by Joseph
Severn. Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1
Paternoster Square, London. Printed by William
Clowes and Sons, Limited, Stamford Street and
Charing Cross, London. |
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"Keats. ...young
poets will chance upon one another, among millions; ‘there’s a special
providence’ in their conjunction and forgathering, instinct and
circumstance join hands to bring this about. The name Keats is set
within a circlet of other names, - those of Clarke, Reynolds, Hunt,
Charles Brown, the artist Haydon and Severn, - each of which is brighter
for the fact that its owner game something f his love an help to the
poet whose name outshines them all. The name itself, at first derided as
uncouth, has become a portion of the loveliness which once he made more
lovely; it belongs to an ideal now so consecrate that all who watched
with him, if but for an hour, have some part of our affections."
Includes two illustrations. "The Life-Mask of John Keats", engraved by
T. Johnson, after a photograph of the life mask created by Haydon. Keats
first met artist Benjamin Robert Haydon on October 31, 1816. A month
after sketching a profile in November, 1816, for incorporating into a
large picture he was painting entitled "Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem",
he created a life mask of Keats, leaving with us nearly a photographic
image of John Keats. The second is an illustration of "The Graves of
Keats and Severn", drawn by Walter Severn, engraved by H. E. Babcock.
The article was
written by Edmund S. Stedman and published in The Century
Illustrated Monthly Magazine - February 1884. Published by The Century
Co., New York.
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The Eve of St. Agnes (1885 Wilson & Son
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Published with twenty-five Illustrations by
Edmund H. Garrett. "Illuminated title page, initials and
borders in gold and colors.
20 full-page and other
illustrations with illuminated border around each...
A beautiful edition of this beautiful poem. The
illuminations on every page are in the highest style
of art..." Joseph McDonough (Lit. Coll, Dec 1903
p. V). Same as above two volumes with changes.
Page crediting illustrator and two pages listing
illustrations are deleted, but decorative borders
and initials have been added. John Wilson was born
in Glasgow, Scotland
on April 16, 1802. He apprenticed as a printer, and
in 1847 moved to
Boston, Massachusetts, where he established John Wilson and Son, a printing and publishing
business. In 1879 he moved to Cambridge, when he purchased
University Press. University Press
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was established in 1639.
The Press of John Wilson & Son was established in 1847. On April 15,
1879 Wilson purchased UP. "...we have purchased the right. Title and
Printing Material of the long-established firm of Welch, Bigelow & Co.,
known as the "University Press" and that we have associated with us Mr.
Charles E. Wentworth, formerly of Soule, Thomas & Wentworth, of St.
Louis... With increased facilities for executing Fine Woodcut
Printing..." (Ad 5/24 & 6/21/1879 The Literary World).
He past away on August 3, 1868, and his son
continued operating the business. Original 1885 price $2.00. Copyright, 1885. By
Charles E. Wentworth. Illuminated Missal Series,
(Trade Mark). Published by University Press: John
Wilson and Son, Cambridge. U.S.A. |
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twenty five Illustrations by
Edmund H. Garrett. Elaborate gilt-stamped
cover, utilizing the illustration from the title page. Gilt edges. Four
cover variations: blue, green, brown and tan. Blue
version larger than green. The balance
of the volume is consistent in all four variations.
Dana Estes was born in
Maine on March 4, 1840. He entered the book business
as a clerk in 1864, and in 1872 partnered with
Charles Emelius Lauriat to form Estes & Lauriat.
In 1898 the firm separated forming two companies.
The publishing side became Dana Estes & Co., and the
retail side became Charles E. Lauriat Co., both in
Boston. (Publ Week 6-98, p.905)
Illustrated by
Edmund H. Garrett. Under The Supervision of Geo T.
Andrew. Geo T. Andrew was an artisan who worked on
many books during this time period. Lacking a
photographic process, the illustrations were
engraved on wood by hand, creating exquisite
reproductions of the original illustrations.
Published By Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Copyright,
1885. By Charles E. Wentworth.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge
(USA).
The Brown Nims Version
is an exact version of the Green Estes version,
size, end papers, etc. Only changes is color of cover and company name
on title page. Published By H. B. Nims
& Company, Troy, NY. Copyright, 1885. By Charles E. Wentworth.
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John Wilson and Son, Cambridge [USA].) According to his
obituary, Henry B. Nims was born and worked
in Troy, NY his whole life. "He was one of the rapidly dwindling ‘Old
Guard’ of the book trade." In 1849 he began working as a clerk in
Merriam, Moore & Co., a book store and publisher in Troy. He became a
partner, and in 1869 the name was H. B. Nims & Co. He passed away on
April 10, 1896.
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(Hard Cover) Illustrated by
Edmund H. Garrett. Under
The Supervision of Geo T. Andrew. Published with
twenty five Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. A) Boards are covered front
& back with alligator skin, ribbon woven into front cover, gilt letters
(below). B) Front and back covers have two knobs
with tassel ties for closure of the covers (right).
C) Boards are covered front & back with seal skin,
gilt letters (right). The December, 1885 issue of
"The Literary News" indicates that these volumes
were available in cloth, alligator, seal and Spanish
calf.
Edges trimmed. Dana Estes was born in Maine on March 4, 1840. He entered
the book business as a clerk in 1864, and in 1872 partnered with Charles Emelius
Lauriat to form Estes & Lauriat. In 1898 the firm
separated forming two companies. The publishing side
became Dana Estes & Co., and the retail side became
Charles E. Lauriat
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Co., both in Boston. (Publisher's
Week 6-98, p.905). First Edition. Original list price of
cloth $1.50, alligator cover $2.50, seal and Spanish
calf $5.00. Published By Estes &
Lauriat (Boston). Copyright, 1885. By Charles E. Wentworth. University
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five Illustrations by
Edmund H. Garrett. Cover is
adaptation of the inside illustration "Down the wide
stairs a darkling way they found". No other changes
to this Estes version. Dana Estes was born in Maine
on March 4, 1840. He entered the book business as a
clerk in 1864, and in 1872 partnered with Charles Emelius Lauriat to form Estes & Lauriat. In 1898 the
firm separated forming two companies. The publishing
side became Dana Estes & Co., and the retail side
became Charles E. Lauriat Co., both in Boston.
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(Publishers Week 6-98,
p.905)
Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. Under The
Supervision of Geo T. Andrew. Geo T. Andrew was an
artisan who worked on many books during this time
period. Lacking a photographic process, the
illustrations were engraved on wood by hand,
creating exquisite reproductions of the original
illustrations. Published By Estes & Lauriat
(Boston). Copyright, 1885. By Charles E. Wentworth.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge
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Published with twenty five Illustrations by
Edmund H. Garrett.
Cover is adaptation of the inside illustration "Down the wide
stairs a darkling way they found". No other changes to this
Estes version. Dana Estes was born in Maine on March 4, 1840. He
entered the book business as a clerk in 1864, and in 1872
partnered with Charles Emelius Lauriat to form Estes & Lauriat.
In 1898 the firm separated forming two companies. The publishing
side became Dana Estes & Co., and the retail side became Charles
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Week 6-98, p.905).
Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. Under The Supervision
of Geo T. Andrew. Geo T. Andrew was an artisan who worked on
many books during this time period. Lacking a photographic
process, the illustrations were engraved on wood by hand,
creating exquisite reproductions of the original
illustrations. Published By Estes & Lauriat (Boston).
Copyright, 1885. By Charles E. Wentworth.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge (USA).
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The Eve of St.
Agnes, published with
twenty-five Illustrations by
Edmund H. Garrett. Cover boards are covered
in a modeled beige paper, title is foil stamped on the cover. Bottom
left hand corner also foil stamped "Patent applied for". This Estes
version’s cover and page size is reduced, but illustrations and text are
not reduced in size. Dana Estes was born in Maine on March 4, 1840. He
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Emelius Lauriat to form Estes & Lauriat. In 1898 the firm
separated forming two companies. The publishing side became Dana Estes &
Co., and the retail side became Charles E. Lauriat Co., both in Boston.
(Publ Week 6-98, p.905). Published By Estes & Lauriat (Boston).
Copyright, 1885. By Charles E. Wentworth. University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge {USA}. |
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The Eve of St.
Agnes, published with twenty-five Illustrations by
Edmund H. Garrett. Cover boards are covered in a light
beige cloth and printed paper. Decorative design and title
are stamped into the cover. Title is blue, design is stamped
in silver. Silver stamping was abandoned by binders in the
mid 1800s because pure silver eventually would tarnish to
black. In the 1880s silver stamping was achieved with a
mixture of palladium and aluminum, which would not tarnish.
Ribbed light beige paper is printed in four colors. Light
and dark green, tan and metallic gold inks. Three edges are
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entered the book business as a clerk in 1864, and in 1872
partnered with Charles Emelius Lauriat to form Estes &
Lauriat. In 1898 the firm separated forming two companies.
The publishing side became Dana Estes & Co., and the retail
side became Charles E. Lauriat Co., both in Boston. (Publ
Week 6-98, p.905). Published by Estes & Lauriat (Boston).
Copyright, 1885. By Charles E. Wentworth. University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge [USA]. Illustrated by Edmund
H. Garrett. Under The Supervision of Geo T. Andrew. |
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The Eve of St. Agnes, by John
Keats. Illustrated by
Edmund H. Garrett. Under The Supervision of Geo T.
Andrew. Published with twenty five Illustrations by Edmund
H. Garrett. The design and lettering on the cover is
embossed and gilt. The design is composed of gold, green and
copper gilt, the lettering is gold. The illustration of the
women appears to be printed as a photogravure, green ink.
All four sides are trimmed and gilt, and bound by what
appears to be a form of "pipe-cleaner" wire. Dana Estes was
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1864, and in 1872 partnered with Charles Emelius Lauriat to
form Estes & Lauriat. In 1898 the firm separated forming two
companies. The publishing side became Dana Estes & Co., and
the retail side became Charles E. Lauriat Co., both in
Boston. Publisher's Week 6-98, p.905) First Edition.
Published By Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Copyright, 1885. By
Charles E. Wentworth. University Press: John Wilson and Son,
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The Eve of
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Edmund H. Garrett. Under The
Supervision of Geo T. Andrew. Published with twenty five
Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. The lettering on the
cover is a very thick gilt. All four sides are trimmed and
gilt, and bound by velvet covered wire (similar to a
pipe-cleaner). Dana Estes was born in Maine on March 4,
1840. He entered the book business as a clerk in 1864, and
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with Charles Emelius Lauriat to form Estes & Lauriat. In
1898 the firm separated forming two companies. The
publishing side became Dana Estes & Co., and the retail side
became Charles E. Lauriat Co., both in Boston. (Publ Week
6-98, p.905) Published By Estes & Lauriat (Boston).
Copyright, 1885. By Charles E. Wentworth. University Press:
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five Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. Red cloth
cover. Same as above except for cover. According to
his obituary, Henry B. Nims was born and worked in
Troy, NY his whole life. "He was one of the rapidly
dwindling ‘Old Guard’ of the book trade." In 1849 he
began working as a clerk in Merriam, Moore & Co., a
book store and publisher in Troy. He became a
partner, and in 1869 the name was H. B. Nims & Co.
He passed away on April 10, 1896.
Illustrated by
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Edmund
H. Garrett. Under The Supervision of Geo T.
Andrew. Geo T. Andrew was an artisan who worked on
many books during this time period. Lacking a
photographic process, the illustrations were
engraved on wood by hand, creating exquisite
reproductions of the original illustrations.
Published By H. B. Nims & Company, Troy, NY.
Copyright, 1885. By Charles E. Wentworth.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge
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The Poems of John Keats, With Prefatory Memoir
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The Poems of John Keats,
With Prefatory Memoir. "Every year, since the death
of Keats, has added to the number of those who
appreciate and love his poems, and every new Edition
of them has been welcomed by the Public. The present
one contains all the Poems published during the
young poet’s life: those in the ‘Literary Remains,’
gathered together after his death by his sympathetic
editor, Lord Houghton; and several taken from papers
and magazines to which Keats contributed... his
short life was not a happy one, and he died without
knowing that he had won the laurel of immortality."
His first "volume of poems, which appeared in 1817,
fell unnoticed from the press... In 1820 appeared
‘Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St. Agnes and other poems".
It was praised, but sold slowly. Of these poems, and
of ‘Endymion,’ Lord Jeffrey, in the Edinburgh Review
of August, 1820, says:- ‘We had never happened to
see either of these volumes till very lately, and
have been exceedingly
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struck with the genius
they display and the spirit of poetry which breathes
through all their extravagances... The ‘Eve of St.
Agnes’... is unequalled for the for beauty of
description... His brief, hapless life - his
exquisite genius - the modesty and even bitterness
of his self-given epitaph - have greatly endeared
him to his countrymen, and the one name they,
perhaps, hold most dear amongst the names of their
national poets is that of Keats." Excerpts from the
introductory Prefactory Memoir, left unnamed, but
most likely Frederick Warne. He formed his
publishing house in 1865. Initially he rejected
Beatrix Potter’s tale of a rabbit, but in 1901
reconsidered and published "The Tale of Peter
Rabbit". Published by Frederick Warne and Co., LTD.
London and New York. Printed in Great Britain by
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The Poetical Works of John Keats
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The Poetical
Works of John Keats. With an Introductory Sketch by John Hogben. The
Canterbury Poets. Edited by William Sharp. This volume begins with an
extensive introductory sketch by John Hogben. "The
impression the subject of the sketch has made on the
world is, in may ways, a deep and notable one. The
high value, and the Spring-freshness of his poems;
the harsh treatment he received at the hand of his
inferiors; the unfulfilled, yet devouring, love for
the woman of his choice; the early death in a
foreign land - all serve to fill the picture of his
life with tenderest light and shadow. On
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voice while speaking of
Keats; and it is difficult to restrain a certain
enthusiasm of generosity which might easily be spent
at the expense of judgment. The top is trimmed, side
and bottom untrimmed. Original list price 1
Shilling. Published by Walter Scott, 24 Warwick
Lane, London. 3 East 14th Street, New York. Printed
by The Walter Scott Press, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Label
pasted to spine "Poetical Works of John Keats.
Edited with Prefatory Notice, by J. Hogben. Not dated, but it is dated 1885 in the Bibliography at
the end of "Life of John Keats" page ii, published in 1887 by
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The Eve of St. Agnes.
Large paper edition. Covers are very thick (.25"), are embossed
and bound in old Spanish morocco. End papers are covered in
silk. Sixteen illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett were etched by
Geo T. Andrew and printed on large paper, with
India Proof
Impressions of the Plates. Each illustration occupies a leaf by
itself and the text is printed on one side of rough leaves
facing the pictures. (Although not identifying Andrew, they are
the same plates as the 1885 editions.) Geo T. Andrew was an
artisan who worked on many books during this time period.
Lacking a photographic process, the illustrations were engraved
on wood by hand, creating exquisite reproductions of the
original illustrations. Back cover heavily embossed. Edges are
trimmed and gilt. This edition was produced and was uniform with
the deluxe edition of "Lenore" by Edgar Allen Poe.
Both covers are exactly the same, only the title
changes. Dana Estes was born in Maine on March 4,
1840. He entered the book business as a clerk in
1864, and in 1872 partnered with Charles Emelius
Lauriat to form Estes & Lauriat. In 1898 the firm
separated forming two companies.
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became Dana Estes & Co., and the retail side
became Charles E. Lauriat Co., both in Boston. (Publ
Week 6-98, p.905). Original list price $10.00.
(Approximately $240 in 2012 dollars.) Published
By Estes & Lauriat Boston. Copyright, 1885, By
Charles E. Wentworth. Hand written on one copy:
"Limited to 280 copies. No. 40." Second copy text
printed: Edition
limited to 280 copies. No, (hand written) "126". Printed by
Brennan and Wilcox. (First Edition)
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The art
of bookmaking: India Proof Impressions. An expensive
process in evidence at the beginning of the 1800s.
An India Proof (Engraving), is a
proof impression from an engraved plate, taken on India
paper.
India paper is a variety of Chinese
paper, of smooth but not glossy surface, used for printing
engravings and woodcuts.
Excerpts from Publisher's Weekly, May 19,
1888: The engraved plate to be printed is heated to a
moderate temperature on a heated stone slab. This allows the
ink to flow and enter the depths of the lines. The surface
of the plate is then wiped with a cloth and polished with
the palm of the printer's hand. The plate, still warm, is
placed upon a press. The paper which is damp is laid upon it
and is rolled under a roller padded out with blankets, whose
pressure forces the paper into the lines till it takes up
the ink which fills them. The dampening of the paper keeps
it from adhering to the plate.
Proofs are printed on India paper, for
which no substitute for the finest printing has yet been
discovered. India paper is a production of the East as its
name implies. Its substance is vegetable fiber and possesses
an amazing tenacity, delicate richness of color, and beauty
of surface. India paper of the best quality is difficult to
procure and very costly. In taking India proofs, the India
paper is cut to the proper proportion and carefully laid
upon the plate. A second sheet of ordinary plate paper is
laid over it and it is run through the press. The glutinous
quality of the India paper and the pressure cause it to
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Adonais. An
Elegy on the Death of John Keats. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. First Printed
Pisa with the types of didot in 1821 and now reprinted in exact fac-simile
(See 1821 fac-simile). Edited With a Bibliographical Introduction By
Thomas J. Wise. "Of this Book, Three Hundred Copies have been printed."
(Shelley Society Publications. Second Series. No. 1. Published For The
Shelley Society By Reeves and Turner, 196 Strand, London. Printed by
Richard Clay & Sons, Bread Street Hill, London. Bungay, Suffolk.)
Adonais was also Published and Printed in
1891 at the Clarendon Press, Oxford by Horace Hart, Printer to the
University. Edited with Introduction and Notes by William Michael
Rossetti.
June the 8th,
1821, Shelley wrote to Mr. Charles Oilier, from Pisa, the following
letter, which is given in the Shelley Memorials—1859—pp. 155, 156: "Dear
Sir, You may announce for publication a poem entitled Adonais. It is a
lament on the death of poor Keats, with some interposed stabs on the
assassins of his peace and of his fame; and will be preceded by a
criticism on Hyperion, asserting the due claims
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gives him to the rank which I have assigned him..."
In his preface Shelley writes. "The genius of the
lamented person to whose memory I have dedicated
these unworthy verses, was not less delicate and
fragile than it was beautiful... The savage criticism
of his Endymion, which
appeared in the Quarterly Review, produced the most violent effect on
his susceptible mind; the agitation thus originated ended in the rupture
of a blood-vessel..." This later proved to be untrue. He continues
"...the succeeding acknowledgments from more candid critics, of the true
greatness of his powers, were ineffective to heal the wound thus
wantonly inflicted. It may be well said, that these wretched men know
not what they do. They scatter their insults and their slanders without
heed as to whether the poisoned shaft lights on a heart made callous by
many blows..." Shelley published his Elegy at Pisa, where it was
"printed with the types of Didot." The original price was 3s. 6d (3
Shillings, 6 pence.) and was issued in blue paper wrappers, with woodcut
and ornamental border. (See 1821 fac-simile.) Original list price
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The Poetical Works of John Keats
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This volume begins with
an extensive introductory sketch by John Hogben.
"The impression the subject of the sketch has made
on the world is, in may ways, a deep and notable
one. The high value, and the Spring-freshness of his
poems; the harsh treatment he received at the hand
of his inferiors; the unfulfilled, yet devouring,
love for the woman of his choice; the early death in
a foreign land - all serve to fill the picture of
his life with tenderest light and shadow. On
instinctively hushes one’s voice while speaking of
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certain enthusiasm of
generosity which might easily be spent at the
expense of judgement." The plates used for this
volume, were used for (0009.04),
published in 1885. The only differences are the
cover and title page, and the addition of the red
border on each page. Published by Walter Scott, 24
Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, and
Newcastle-on-Tyne, London. Tan cloth, gilt and black
stamped design on cover and spine. Edges are trimmed
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Among My Books By James Russell Lowell (1876,
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Among My Books. Second
Series. By James Russell Lowell. 1887 Hard Cover.
First published in 1876: Among My Books. Second
Series. By James Russell Lowell, Professor of
Belles-Lettres in Harvard College.
This volume is comprises
of five biographies by Harvard Professor James
Russell Lowell, and include Dante, Spenser,
Wordsworth, Milton and Keats. Of Keats he writes,
"Three men almost contemporaneous with each other, -
Wordsworth, Keats, and Byron, - were the great means
of bringing back English poetry from the sandy
deserts of rhetoric, and recovering for her her
triple inheritance of simplicity, sensuousness, and
passion... Keats had the broadest mind, or at least
his mind was open on more sides, and he was able to
understand Wordsworth and judge Bryon, equally
conscious, through his artistic sense, of the
greatnesses of the one and the many littlenesses of
the other... Keats certainly had more of the
penetrative and sympathetic imagination which
belongs to the poet, of that imagination which
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identifies itself with the
momentary object of its contemplative, than any man of these
later days... His imagination was his bliss and bane... in
him we have an example of the renaissance going on almost
under our own eyes, and that the intellectual ferment was in
him kindled by a purely English leaven.... Keats had an
instinct for fine words, which are in themselves pictures
and ideas, and had more of the power of poetic expression
than any modern English poet... The poems of Keats mark an
epoch in English poetry..."
This 1887 version published by
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston. 11 East Seventeenth
Street, New York. Printed by Riverside Press, Cambridge.
Electrotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge. Copyright 1876, By James Russell Lowell.
1876
edition published by James
R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields,
Osgood, & Co., Boston. Printed by University Press: Welch,
Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge. Electrotyped and Printed by
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Keats. By Sidney Colvin (1887) |
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Keats. By Sidney Colvin.
Edited by John Morley. A biography and study of
Keats life and work. "Science may one day ascertain
the laws of distribution and descent which govern
the firths of genius, but in meantime a birth like
that of Keats presents to the ordinary mind a
striking instance of nature's inscrutability. If we
consider the other chief poets of the time, we can
commonly recognize either some strain of power in
their blood or some strong inspiring influence in
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and traditions of their home...
We know not how much of Hyperion had been written when he
laid it aside in January to take up the composition of St.
Agnes's Eve, that unsurpassed example — nay, must we not
rather call it unequalled? — of the pure charm of coloured
and romantic narrative in English verse." Original list
price 75 cents. Published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers,
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Life of John Keats. By William Michael Rossetti (1887) |
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Life of John
Keats by William Michael Rossetti. Edited by Eric S. Robertson. " ‘The Eve of
St. Agnes’, though it assumes a narrative form, is hardly a narrative,
but rather a monody of dreamy richness, a pictured and scenic
presentment, which sentiment again permeates and over-rules. I rate it
far above ‘Isabella’ - and indeed above all those poems of Keats, not
purely lyrical, in which human or quasi-human agents bear their part,
except only the ballad ‘La BelleDame sans Merci’ and the uncompleted
‘Eve of St. Mark.’ "Hyperion’ stands aloof in lonely majesty; but I
think that, in the long run, even ‘Hyperion’ represents the genius of
Keats less adequately, and past question less characteristically, than
‘The Eve of St, Agnes’... The power of ‘The Eve of St, Agnes’... lies in
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into sound; in making pictures
out of words, or turning words into pictures; of giving a
visionary beauty to the closest items of description; of
holding all the materials of the poem in a long-drawn
suspense of music and reverie... is par excellence the poem
of ‘glamour’... Perhaps no reader has ever risen from ‘The
Eve of St. Agnes’ dissatisfied. After a while he can
question the grounds of his satisfaction, and may possibly
find them wanting; but he has only to peruse the poem again,
and the same spell is upon him." Extensive Bibliography on
the published writings of Keats, pages i-xi (end). Original list price 1 Shilling 6d. (Note:
PW Keats 1888 Scott 1 Shilling). Published by Walter Scott, 24 Warwick
Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Part of the series "Great
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The Poetical Works of John
Keats, Chronologically arranged and edited, with a memoir by
Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes), D. C. C., Hon.
Fellow of Trin. Coll., Cambridge. By John Keats, Lord
Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes). Editor’s Note. "The
object of the chronological arrangement of this edition, and
the consequent insertion of some pieces of comparatively
little value, is to present a faithful self-drawn literary
picture of the short and sad poetical life. Had Keats lived
to maturity his claim on the larger sympathies of mankind...
This volume alone contains all his works..." The volume
begins with the Houghton Memoir. "The Life, Letters, and
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poet, mainly conveyed in the language of his own
correspondence... The ‘Adonais’ of Shelley remains the
immortal literary monument of the life, work, and sorrows of
John Keats." Includes a frontispiece
etching of John Keats
by "Andrew-Sc", adapted from a portrait by Joseph Severn.
This volume uses the same plates Roberts used for the two
volumes published in 1882, minus the red border. Only other
difference in the three volumes is the cover. (First
Edition) Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston. Printed by
University Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge. Padded
leather, gilt and stamped on cover and spine. Edges are
trimmed and gilt. Decorative cloth endpages have a gilt
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The Eve of St. Agnes, And Other Poems (1888) |
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published per week. This volume is No. 335. There is
no title page. Page one starts directly
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3c.Published by John B Alden, New York and Chicago.
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The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John
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The Poetical Works and
Other Writings of John Keats. Edited with Notes and
Appendices By H. Buxton Forman. In Four Volumes.
Reissues with Additions and Corrections. Volume I -
Poetry. (Note:
Volume II was also reissued with minor
Additions and Corrections.) Volume I begins with the
extensive Editor’s Preface, dated October 1883.
Forman writes: "The manuscripts of Endymoin,
Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes and portions of
Isabella should be mentioned as especially
fruitful of various readings and canceled
passages... Hunt, in his admirable remarks upon
The Eve of St. Agnes, points to the fainting of
Porphyre at sight of Madeline as the one flaw in the
poem,
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and apologizes for it on
the score of the poet’s enfeebled state of health at
the time. But I think this is rather hard on all
three - poem, poet and disease. If it be so decided
a fault, I fear we must acquit bodily disease of any
part or lot in it, for Keats’s young people always
had a way of fainting, whether conceived in his more
vigorous or in his less vigorous period..." Portrait
of Keats by Joseph Severn: photo-intaglio from a
Miniature in the possession of the Editor.
Burial-place of Keats: etched by Arthur Evershed
from a drawing by Samuel Palmer. (Published by
Reeves & Turner, 196 Strand, London. Printed by
Chiswick Press, C. Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court,
Chancery Lane.) |
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Selections from Keats.
Published as part of the "Routledge Pocket Library"
series. This volume begins with a "Prefatory Note".
Tutin explains, "The present volume has been
carefully prepared, in the case of poems published
during Keats' lifetime, from the author's own text.
The posthumous pieces included are edited from the
best sources. It will be seen that I have included
all the pieces contained in Keats' volume of 1820
entitled "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and
other Poems" and I have followed the author's own
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case of these pieces.
The poems selected from the volume published in 1817
also follow Keats' arrangement. The posthumous
pieces given are, as nearly as ascertainable,
arranged in the chronological order of their
composition. This little volume contains several
poems not included in any other non - copyright
edition." Published by George Routledge and Sons.
Broadway, Ludgate Hill. London, Glasgow, Manchester,
and New York. Printed by Ballantyne Press: Edinburgh
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. Reprinted From The Original Editions
With Notes by Francis T. Palgrave. This version of
"The Poetical Works of John Keats" was first
published in 1884
and reprinted in 1886. It begins with a short
introduction by Francis T. Palgrave, dated August
1884, and ends with his extensive notes on Keats
writings. Palgrave also arranges his writings in the
order they were
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published; 1817, 1818,
1820 and "Posthuma" (published after his death). He
also includes "A drawing by the great and tender-souled
Flaxman... to enable me to please myself by
prefacing Keats with a design which is so much in
harmony with his own art, in point of grandeur and
of beauty." Published by MacMillan and Co., London.
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Poetry and Prose By John Keats (1890
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Poetry and Prose By John
Keats. A Book of Fresh Verses and New Readings -
Essays and Letters lately found - and Passages
formerly suppressed. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. And
Forming A Supplement to the Library Edition of
Keats’s Works. "The Library Edition of Keats’s
writings published in 1883 was the first serious
attempt to bring together in one collection the
whole works of Keats in verse and prose and all the
most important collateral matter illustrating the
works or throwing light upon the career of the man.
Of that edition a reissue has
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been recently
called for. In the meantime, the materials for
dealing with Keats’s works have been considerably
enlarged... Of
The Eve
of St. Agnes (Volume II, pages 71 to 105)
we have now what is almost as good from critical
uses as the missing holograph of the first seven
stanzas..." Includes minor changes. Published by
Reeves & Turner, 196 Strand, London, Printed by
Chiswick Press, C. Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court,
Chancery Lane.) |
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Letters of John Keats (1891) |
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Letters of John Keats,
To His Family and Friends. Edited by Sidney Colvin.
Begins with a preface by Sidney Colvin. "The object
of the present volume is to supply the want, which
many readers must have felt, of a separate and
convenient edition of the letters of Keats to his
family and friends. He is one of those poets whose
genius makes itself felt in prose -writing almost as
decisively as in verse, and at their best these
letters are among the most beautiful in our
language.
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Portions of them lent an
especial charm to a book charming at any rate the
biography of the poet first published more than
forty years ago by Lord Houghton. But the
correspondence as given by Lord Houghton is neither
accurate nor complete..." Second Edition. Hard
Cover. Published by MacMillan and Co., London and
New York. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.
Boards covered in burgundy cloth. Title in gilt on
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Roses of Romance. From the Poems of John Keats (1891) |
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Roses of
Romance. From the Poems of John Keats. Selected and Illustrated by
Edmund H. Garrett. In 1820, The
Eve of St. Agnes was published along with Lamia and Isabella and
other Poems. In 1885 The Eve of St. Agnes was published by John
Wilson and Son with over 20 illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. This
version includes the same three poems along with La Belle Dame Sans
Merci, is copyrighted by
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Garrett, and includes
five new illustrations which use the same characters
in The Eve of St. Agnes, but did not appear
in the earlier edition. Published by Roberts
Brothers, Boston. Printed by University Press: John
Wilson and Son U. S. A. Copyright 1891 by Edmund H.
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or Selections From the English Poets. Hunt begins
this volume with an essay "An Answer to the Question
What is Poetry?" He includes selections from
Spenser; Marlowe; Shakspeare; Ben Johnson; Beaumont
and Fletcher; Middleton, Decker and Webster; Milton;
Coleridge; Shelley; and Keats. This includes "The Eve of St. Agnes"
and Hunts Essay, first published in
"The Seer"
1840, but with modifications. Where his comments
were interspersed within Agnus in 1840, the
poem in totality comes first, then Hunts essay with
minor modifications. He introduces the section on
Keats with a biography, and who better to write this
then this close supporter, colleague and friend. He
writes "Keats was born a poet... Repeated editions
of him in England, France, and America, attest its
triumphant survival of all obloquy; and there can be
no doubt that he has taken a permanent station among
British Poets, of a very high, if not thoroughly
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description. ...the Eve of Saint
Agnes still appears to me the most delightful and complete
specimen of his genius... It is young, but full-grown poetry
of the rarest description; graceful as the beardless Apollo;
glowing and gorgeous with the colours of romance. ...all
good things tend to pleasure in the recollection; when the
bitterness of their loss is past, their own sweetness
embalms them. ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.’" Wright
designed the title page for the 1896
Auvergne Press edition. (Published as "A New Edition" in
1891 by Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, London.
Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square, London.)
(First published in 1845 by Wiley and Putnam, 161 Broadway,
New York. Printed by R. Craighead’s Power Press, 112 Fulton
Street. Stereotyped by T. B. Smith, 216 William Street.)
(Also published as "New Edition, Complete in one volume" in
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. Chronologically arranged and edited,
with a memoir, By Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton
Milnes), D.C.L., Hon. Fellow of Trin. Coll.
Cambridge. Editor’s Note. "The object of the
chronological arrangement of this edition, and the
consequent insertion of some pieces of comparatively
little value, is to present a faithful self-drawn
literary picture of the short and sad poetical life.
Had Keats lived to maturity his claim on the larger
sympathies of mankind... This volume alone contains
all his works..." The volume begins with the
Houghton Memoir. "The Life, Letters, and Literary
Remains of John Keats, published first in 1848, and
in a more complete form in 1867, contained the
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biography of the poet, mainly
conveyed in the language of his own correspondence... The
‘Adonais’ of Shelley remains the immortal literary monument
of the life, work, and sorrows of John Keats." Includes an
etching of John Keats by C.H. Jeens, adapted from a portrait
by Joseph Severn. Published by George Bell & Sons, York St.,
Covent Gardens, London, and New York. Printed by Chiswick
Press: C. Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.
1st Aldine Edition. November 1876. Reprinted. March 1879.
March 1882. June 1883. June 1886. August 1890. March 1891.
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The Poetical
Works of John Keats. Reprinted From The Original Editions With Notes by
Francis T. Palgrave. This version of
"The Poetical Works of John Keats" was first published in
1884. Contents
were added in 1885 and reprinted in 1886, 1889 and 1892. It begins with
a short introduction by Francis T. Palgrave, dated August 1884, and ends
with his extensive notes on Keats writings. Palgrave also arranges his
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his death). He also includes "A
drawing by the great and tender-souled Flaxman... to enable me to please myself by prefacing
Keats with a design which is so much in harmony with his own art, in
point of grandeur and of beauty." Illustration on title page etched by
G. J. Stodart. Pages are trimmed top and bottom, left untrimmed on the
side. (Fifth edition) Published by MacMillan and Co., London and
New York. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. This edition
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The Eve of St. Agnes and Sonnets
by John Keats. Part of the Literary Gems, Fifth Series.
Series I. To V. Comprise 30 volumes. "A series of
productions, complete in small compass, which have been
accepted as classics of their kind, and which are entitled
to the most attractive form that can be given to them. Each
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morocco, gilt top, with a frontispiece in photogravure.
Price, per volume, in box, 75 cts. Top and bottom trimmed,
sides uncut.
Photogravure of
Keats from an illustration by Joseph Severn, 2.25 x 2.8.
Original list price 75c. Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
New York and London. Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by The
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The Poetical Works of John
Keats. By John Keats. Reprinted From The Original Editions
With Notes by Francis T. Palgrave, Professor of Poetry in
The University of Oxford.
First printed in 1884. This version of "The Poetical
Works of John Keats" begins with a short introduction by
Francis T. Palgrave, dated August 1884, and ends with his
extensive notes on Keats writings and an Index to first
lines. Palgrave also arranges his writings in the order they
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his death). The cover has a
light beige cloth stamped with a gilt design. The paper is a
stippled paper, printed with three inks, light pink, light
green and a metallic gold. This volume was owned by James
Robinson Smith, and includes his book plate. Smith
(1876-1954) graduated from Yale, and graduate work at Yale
and Harvard. He was also a poet and translated Don Quixote
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Cullings From Keats. Part of the
six volume "Choice Bits Series." Hand decorated with seven
colors (dark and light green, yellow, white, black, gray and
gold) on dark green covers. Bound with a string. Begins with
a one page introduction by Sidney Colvin "Life of Keats."
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flowers, of their power to minister to the spirit of man
through all his senses at once? It remains to glance at the
influence exercised by Keats on the poets who have come
after him..." Original list price 50c. First Edition.
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The Poems of John Keats
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The Poems of John Keats.
By John Keats. The Penny Poets - XIX, The
Masterpiece Library. Edited by Stead, W.T. "Keats
lived for twenty-five years among mortal men. This
month, seventy-five years after his death, we are
celebrating the centenary of his birth as that of
one of the Immortals. Few of the men who were born a
hundred years ago are held in such grateful
remembrance as this consumptive youth, to whom there
was allotted so brief a span of years. Yet Keats has
never become a popular poet, as Byron was, Scott is,
and as Shakespeare has been, is, and ever will be...
Keats was the poet of Beauty. He was a Greek, said
Shelley; and Mr. Colvin declares he was the most
Shakespearian Spirit that has lived since
Shakespeare." Although not dated, Stead refers to
"celebrating the centenary of his birth".
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Keats was born on
October 31, 1795, which would indicate a publishing
date of 1895. In an article published in "The Review
of Reviews", Oct 15, 1895, "The Penny Poets", page
359, Stead reports "The Keats number has been issued
in connection with the Keats’ Centenary. An update
in the November 1895 issue reports, "The next in
order of publication will be No. 25 and No. 26,
Keats being No. 19. An ad in the Nov 7, 1896 issue
of Publisher’s Circular offers all 51 volumes.
Includes: Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle,
Lamia, Hyperion, five Odes, three Sonnets and
Endymion. Original list price One Penny. Published
by The Review of Reviews, London. Published for the
Proprietor by Horace Marshall & Son, London. Printed
by William Clowes and Sons)
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The Poetical Works of John Keats
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The
Poetical Works of John Keats. Edited by William T.
Arnold. In Two Volumes, Vol. I.
Not dated. Merrill and Baker
published books as early as 1891. Inscribed on title
page: "Paul E. Nist. Xmas 1895." Very similar to The
Poetical Works of John Keats. 1884, published in a
single volume. This volume is published in two
volumes. It also appears to use the identical place.
The frontispiece and title page were changed. "John
Keats was born in London, 1795, died in Rome, 1821.
His juvenile verses, pp. 3-62 of this edition, were
published in 1817; his second volume, the Endymion,
pp. 63-177, in 1818;
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his third, containing Lamia, Isabella, Hyperion, the
Eve of St. Agnes, indeed, the greater part of his
best work, pp. 11-106 (vol. ii.), in 1820." The
frontispiece is a
Portrait of John
Keats (K4D), and
is a photogravure etching pulled from a copper
plate. Published by
Merrill and Baker, New York. Bound in Half-calf and
marble covers. End paper matches marbled cover.
Leather on front and back cover died green, spine
died brown. Gilt lettering on spine, and edges of
leather. Text printed on beige laid paper. Top edge
trimmed and gilt.
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The Poetical Works of John Keats
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. Given From His Own Editions and Other
Authentic Sources and Collated With Many
Manuscripts. Edited with Notes and Appendices By H.
Buxton Forman. Complete Edition. Deluxe Edition,
gilt edges three sides (shown below). Astor Edition,
embossed on front cover (shown to the right). Both
the Deluxe and Astor Editions are consistent on the
inside. In 1883 Reeves
first published a four volume set of Keats complete
poetical works which included and extensive preface
by Forman. In 1884 Reeves condensed the set into a
single volume which included Forman’s extensive
Editor’s Preface. In 1889 the four volume set was
republished with minor revisions. In 1890 the single
1884 volume was reissued as "Prose and Poetry, A
Book of Fresh Verses and New Readings".
In 1895 Crowell published three separate versions of
the "Works of Keats". This 1895 edition includes a
new extensive biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell
Dole, and includes Forman’s notes as well as Hunt’s
Reviews from 1820 and 1844. Dole writes of his
earlier work "It is interesting to note that the
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tenderness his very
faults, his words quaintly misspelled, his
grammatical errors, his
exuberant immaturities of form and idea, his crude
unconventionalities."
Portrait of Keats. Note: First Version. This version is
virtually identical to the second Crowell edition. Title, title page and
portrait changed. Published by
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York. Copyright 1895, By
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Printed in the United States of
America.
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The Poetical
Works of John Keats (Gladstone Edition). Given From His Own Editions and Other Authentic
Sources and Collated With Many Manuscripts. Edited with Notes and
Appendices By H. Buxton Forman. Complete Edition. Hard Cover. Published as
part of the Gladstone Edition of Poets Series. Virtually the same
edition as the 1895 and 1895 Astor
editions, with slight change to
title page. This 1895 edition includes a new
extensive biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell
Dole, and includes Forman’s notes as well as Hunt’s
Reviews from 1820 and 1844. Dole writes of his
earlier work "It is interesting to note that the
modern worshippers of Keats, treasure with peculiar
tenderness his very faults, his words quaintly
misspelled, his grammatical errors, his exuberant
immaturities of form and idea, his crude
unconventionalities."
Portrait of Keats. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York and Boston. Copyright
1895, By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Brochure for The
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Works of John Keats". "A new line of standard poets,
well printed on good paper, from clear type, with
frontispieces and specially designed title pages.
Strongly and beautifully bound in cloth, with neat
design, gilt top. Per vol., $0.75. Also published in
Half Calf, Gilt Top, Full gilt back, marble paper sides.
Per vol., $1.75."
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The Poetical Works of John
Keats. Given From His Own Editions and Other Authentic
Sources and Collated With Many Manuscripts. Edited with
Notes and Appendices By H. Buxton Forman. Complete Edition.
Burgundy Cover Hard
Cover. In 1883 Reeves first published a four volume set of Keats
complete poetical works which included and extensive preface
by Forman. In 1884 Reeves condensed the set into a single
volume which included Forman’s extensive Editor’s Preface.
In 1889 the four volume set was republished with minor
revisions. In 1890 the single 1884 volume was reissued as
"Prose and Poetry, A Book of Fresh Verses and New Readings".
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separate versions of the
"Works of Keats". This 1895 edition includes a new extensive
biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole, and includes
Forman’s notes as well as Hunt’s Reviews from 1820 and 1844.
Dole writes of his earlier work "It is interesting to note
that the modern worshippers of Keats, treasure with peculiar
tenderness his very faults, his words quaintly misspelled,
his grammatical errors, his exuberant immaturities of form
and idea, his crude unconventionalities."
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Cover. (First Edition)
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats
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The Complete
Poetical Works of John Keats with Notes and Appendices by H. Buxton
Forman. Deluxe Leather Hard Cover. In 1883 Reeves
first published a four volume set of Keats complete poetical works which
included and extensive preface by Forman. In 1884 Reeves condensed the
set into a single volume which included Forman’s extensive Editor’s
Preface. In 1889 the four volume set was republished with minor
revisions. In 1890 the single 1884 volume was reissued as "Prose and
Poetry, A Book of Fresh Verses and New Readings". In
1895 Crowell published three separate versions of
the "Works of Keats". This 1895 edition includes a
new extensive biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell
Dole, and includes Forman’s
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Reviews from 1820 and 1844. Dole writes of his
earlier work "It is interesting to note that the
modern worshippers of Keats, treasure with peculiar
tenderness his very faults, his words quaintly
misspelled, his grammatical errors, his exuberant
immaturities of form and idea, his crude
unconventionalities."
Portrait of Keats by Joseph
Severn from a Miniature. Note: Second Version. This version is
virtually identical to the first Crowell edition. Title "Complete...",
title page and portrait changed. Deluxe leather cover. Published by
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. Copyright 1895,
By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Printed in the United
States of America.
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In 1883 Reeves first
published a four volume set of Keats complete
poetical works which included and extensive preface
by Forman. In 1884 Reeves condensed the set into a
single volume which included Forman’s extensive
Editor’s Preface. In 1889 the four volume set was
republished with minor revisions. In 1890 the single
1884 volume was reissued as "Prose and Poetry, A
Book of Fresh Verses and New Readings".
In 1895 Crowell published three separate versions of
the "Works of Keats". This 1895 edition includes a
new extensive biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell
Dole, and includes Forman’s notes as well as Hunt’s
Reviews from 1820 and 1844. Dole writes of his
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interesting to note that the modern worshippers of
Keats, treasure with peculiar tenderness his very
faults, his words quaintly misspelled, his
grammatical errors, his exuberant immaturities of
form and idea, his crude unconventionalities."
Portrait of Keats by Joseph Severn from a Miniature.
(First Edition)
This version is identical to the Crowell edition
(0018.08). The
cover and portrait are the only changes. Deluxe
leather and cloth cover. Deluxe leather and cloth
cover. (Deluxe Leather and Green Cloth Hard Cover)
(Published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York.
Copyright 1895, By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Printed
in the United States of America)
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The Complete Poetical
Works of John Keats with Notes and Appendices by H.
Buxton Forman. Deluxe Leather Hard Cover, design
stamped in leather. Tree with fruit, within a
border, title gilt. Note: This version is
identical to the Crowell editions
(0018.08) &
(0018.25) Title
"Complete...", the cover and portrait (of one) are
the only changes. By John Keats; Dole, Nathan
Haskell; Forman, H. Buxton; Hunt, Leigh. In 1883
Reeves first published a four volume set of Keats
complete poetical works which included and extensive
preface by Forman. In 1884 Reeves condensed the set
into a single volume which included Forman’s
extensive Editor’s Preface. In 1889 the four volume
set was republished with minor revisions. In 1890
the single 1884 volume was reissued as "Prose and
Poetry, A Book of Fresh Verses and
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New Readings".
In 1895 Crowell published three separate
versions of the "Works of Keats". This 1895 edition
includes a new extensive biographical sketch by
Nathan Haskell Dole, and includes Forman’s notes as
well as Hunt’s Reviews from 1820 and 1844. Dole
writes of his earlier work "It is interesting to
note that the modern worshippers of Keats, treasure
with peculiar tenderness his very faults, his words
quaintly misspelled, his grammatical errors, his
exuberant immaturities of form and idea, his crude
unconventionalities." Portrait of Keats
by Joseph Severn from a Miniature. Same illustration
as (0018.08). Published by Thomas Y. Crowell
Company, New York. Copyright 1895, By Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co. Printed in the United States of
America.
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The Poetical Works of John Keats Volume I & II
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The Poetical
Works of John Keats. Given From His Own Editions and Other Authentic
Sources and Collated With Many Manuscripts. Edited with Notes and
Appendices By H. Buxton Forman. Vol. I and Vol. II. In 1883 Reeves
first published a four volume set of Keats complete poetical works which
included and extensive preface by Forman. In 1884 Reeves condensed the
set into a single volume which included Forman’s extensive Editor’s
Preface. In 1889 the four volume set was republished with minor
revisions. In 1890 the single 1884 volume was reissued as "Prose and
Poetry, A Book of Fresh Verses and New Readings". In 1895
Crowell published three separate versions of the "Works of Keats". This
1895 edition includes a new extensive biographical sketch by Nathan
Haskell Dole, and includes Forman’s notes as well as Hunt’s Reviews from
1820 and 1844. Dole writes of his earlier work "It is interesting to
note that the modern worshippers of
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Keats,
treasure with peculiar tenderness his very faults, his
words quaintly misspelled, his grammatical errors, his
exuberant immaturities of form and idea, his crude
unconventionalities." Volume I, pages 1-311:
Portrait of Keats by Joseph Severn from a Miniature., One
illustration by Samual Palmer and
five by E. H. Garrett. Also includes Table of Contents. Volume II, pages
313-661: Includes one illustration by William Hilton, two by
Joseph
Severn, one of which is
Keats on his death bed, and one by Monsieur Edouart and five Masks of Keats. Note: Third Version. This two volume version
is virtually identical to the first and second Crowell editions, but in
two volumes. Vol. I, pages 1-311, Vol. II, pages 313-661. Title page and
illustrations changed. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, New
York: 46 East 14th Street. Boston:
100 Purchase Street. Copyright 1895, By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Printed
by Rockwell and Churchill, Boston.
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John Keats. A Critical Essay
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John Keats. A
Critical Essay. By Robert Bridges. An extensive essay on the writings of
John Keats. Bridges writes, "The Eve of St. Agnes...
is much more powerful. It is well done throughout,
and except for some expressions, criticism could
only quarrel with the machinery of the story... The
Eve of St. Agnes is not only a passionate tale, but
it is very rich in the kind of beauty characteristic
of Keats, and contains high poetry both of diction
and felling: the majority of readers would not wish
it different from what it is... Had Keats left us
only his Odes, his rank among the poets would not be
lower that it is, for they have stood apart in
literature... Keats’ vocabulary, to judge by the
impression that one gets from reading his poems, is
rich, and his use of quite a large
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number of
words that are not commonly found must be reckoned among
the factors of his style... the very seal of his poetry,
that which sets poetry above the other arts; I mean the
power of concentrating all the far-reaching resources of
language on one point, so that a single and apparently
effortless expression rejoices the aesthetic imagination
at the moment when it is most expectant and exacting,
and at the same time astonishes the intellect with a new
aspect of truth. This is only found in the greatest of
poets, and is rare in them; and it is no doubt for the
possession of this power that Keats has been often
likened to Shakespeare." Privately Printed, 1895. Two Hundred
and Fifty Copies printed.
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The Poetical Works of
John Keats. Given From His Own Editions and Other
Authentic Sources and Collated With Many
Manuscripts. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. Third
Edition. Augmented and Corrected in Three Volumes.
Vol. I-III. This three volume set includes Forman’s
extensive Editor’s Preface dated December 1883 with
a Postscript dated January 1889. Forman writes: "The
manuscripts of Endymoin, Lamia, The Eve of St.
Agnes and portions of Isabella should be
mentioned as especially fruitful of various readings
and canceled passages... Hunt, in his admirable
remarks upon The Eve of St. Agnes, points to
the fainting of Porphyre at sight of Madeline as the
one flaw in the poem,
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apologizes for it on the score of the poet’s enfeebled
state of health at the time. But I think this is rather
hard on all three - poem, poet and disease. If it be so
decided a fault, I fear we must acquit bodily disease of
any part or lot in it, for Keats’s young people always
had a way of fainting, whether conceived in his more
vigorous or in his less vigorous period..." Volume one
includes one portrait of Keats and five additional
halftone illustrations. Volume two includes seven
halftone illustrations. Volume three includes three
halftone illustrations. Published by J. B. Lippincott
Company, Philadelphia. Copyright, 1894 By J. B.
Lippincott Company. Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company,
Philadelphia, U. S. A.
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"Keats in
Hampstead. The 29th of October, 1895, marks the centenary of
the birth of John Keats, and affords a fitting occasion for lovers of
his poetry to pay tribute to his fame... Every student of Keats
associated Hampstead with him even more than the place of his birth, or
the distant city where he found a quiet grave... Hunt spoke of Keats, ‘A
few years more, after I am gone, people all over England will be
speaking of Keats, and doing homage to his rare intellectual qualities.
They will acknowledge that I was right in my prophecy, published some
time ago, that he was a true man of genius as these latter times have
seen, one of those who are to genuine and original to be properly
appreciated at first, but whose time for applause will infallibly arrive
with the many.’ And then Hunt would relapse into silence, his eyes
gazing into the distance, as though he saw unutterable visions."
Includes two photographs, seven illustrations
and three facsimiles of letters written by Keats."
By Kenyon West.
"The Influence
of Keats... We can trace the influence of Keats not merely in the
conscious or unconscious imitations of his manner, like those which are
so evident in the early poems of Tennyson and Proctor, in Hood’s ‘Plea
of the Midsummer Fairies’... in Rosetti’s ‘Ballads and Sonnets,’ and
William Morris’s ‘Earthly Paradise,’ but also in the youthful spirit of
delight in the retelling of old tales of mythology and chivalry; in the
quickened sense of pleasure in the luxuriance and abundance of natural
beauty; in the freedom of overflowing cadences transmitting ancient
forms of verse into new and flexible measures... Indeed we shall fail to
do justice to the influence of Keats unless we recognize also that it
has produced direct and distinct effects in the art of painting. The
English Preraphaelites owed much to his inspiration. Holman Hunt found
two of his earliest subjects from pictures in ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’
and..." By Henry van Dyke.
Both articles were published in The Century
Illustrated Monthly Magazine - October 1895. Published by The Century
Co., New York.
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in Criticism. The Study of Poetry. John Keats;
Wordsworth. By Matthew Arnold. Edited by Susan S. Sheridan. Hillouse
High School, New Haven, Conn. The Academy Series of
English Classics. In Arnold’s extensive essay on
Keats he writes, "We who believe Keats to have been
by his promise, at any rate, if not fully by his
performance, one of the very greatest of English
poets... Keats was a great spirit, and counts for
far more than many even of his admirers suppose...
No one else in English poetry, save Shakespeare, has
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quite the fascinating felicity of
Keats, his perfection of loveliness." Sheridan also
includes excerpts from "Keats. Significant Facts in
the Life of Keats. (From Masson’s Essay on Keats.)"
"We can hardly be wrong in believing that, had Keats
lived to the ordinary age of man, he would have been
one of the greatest of our poets." Published by
Allyn and Bacon, Boston and Chicago. Copyright,
1896, By Susan S. Sheridan. Printed by Norwood
Press. J.A. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith,
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of St. Agnes. John Keats, with
an appreciation by Leigh Hunt. This is the only volume solely of "The
Eve of St. Agnes" that included Leigh Hunts essay. “Printed on a
hand press by William H. Winslow & Chauncey L. Williams (both were
Wright neighbors and clients), for pleasure and their friends, at The
Auvergne Press, River Forest, Illinois; and finished the 19th day of
December 1896. This copy is number
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14 of an
edition of sixty five copies, printed on hand-made
paper. The title page of this little book is from a
design especially made for it by Frank L. Wright.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Published with
twenty five Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. Exactly like the Estes
version, but the page with the copyright and date has been deleted.
Cloth and gilt-stamped cover with floral illustration on the cover. Printed on heavy paper (card stock). Some references to this
version being printed in 1890. On April 11, 1896 Herbert M. Caldwell ran
a full page ad in the Publishers’ Weekly and announced the organization
of H.M. Caldwell Co. to publish books. "The catalogue to be issued will
include more than a thousand titles." 9 and 11 East 16th
St., New York. (PW 1896 p.645). He also
opened an office in Boston. Company was possibly a
subsidiary of Estes & Lauriat (John W. Tebbel).
Illustrated by
Edmund H. Garrett. Under The
Supervision of Geo T. Andrew. Published by H. M.
Caldwell Co. (New York, Boston). Geo T. Andrew was
an artisan who worked on many books during this time
period. Lacking a photographic process, the
illustrations were engraved on wood by hand,
creating exquisite reproductions of the original
illustrations. H.M. Caldwell Co. also published
Select Poems by Keats with and
introduction by Alice Meynell (PW,
10/22/04 p. 963). H.M. Caldwell Co. New York and
Boston, 1896-1914. (Note: Only change to
Version II is the illustration pasted on the cover,
and the front and back end pages. Only change to
Version III is the red cloth and illustration pasted on
the cover and the end pages which are blank. Only
change to Version IV is the cloth and illustration
pasted cover and front and back End Paper. The cover
illustration is not printed in standard four color
process. There appears to be at least 16 or more
plates, yellow, olive, light, medium and dark green,
brown, light and dark pink, orange, red and dark
red, light and dark purple, light and medium blue,
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The Eve of St. Agnes
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Published with twenty five Illustrations by
Edmund H. Garrett.
Exactly like the Estes version, but the page with
the copyright and date has been deleted. White cloth
and gilt-stamped cover with floral illustration.
Illustration is not printed in standard four color
process. There appears to be at least 16 or more
plates, yellow, olive, light, medium and dark green,
brown, light and dark pink, orange, red and dark
red, light and dark purple, light and medium blue,
and grey. Printed on heavy paper (card stock). Some
references to this version being printed in 1890. On
April 11, 1896 Herbert M. Caldwell ran a full page
ad in the Publishers’ Weekly and announced the
organization of H.M. Caldwell Co. to publish books.
"The catalogue to be issued will include more
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a thousand titles." 9 and 11 East 16th St., New
York. (PW 1896 p.645).
He also opened an office in Boston. Possibly as a
subsidiary of Estes & Lauriat. (John W. Tebbel ).
H.M. Caldwell Co. New York and Boston, 1896-1914.
First Caldwell edition.
Published By H. M. Caldwell Co. (New York, Boston).
(Geo T. Andrew was an artisan who worked on many
books during this time period. Lacking a
photographic process, the illustrations were
engraved on wood by hand, creating exquisite
reproductions of the original illustrations.) (Note:
Only change to this Version VI is the cloth and
illustration pasted to cover, front and back End
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The Eve of St. Agnes
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The Eve of St. Agnes
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The Golden Treasures (1896) |
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the
English Language. Selected and Arranged with notes by Francis
Turner Palgrave, Professor of Poetry in the University of
Oxford.
This edition published as part of the Golden Treasury Series.
First published in 1861, reprinted 23 times. Second edition
1891, reprinted three times, this is the third. A compilation of
over 80 poets, Keats being included. Although The Eve of St.
Agnes is not included, a number of Keats
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other poems are
included. It begins with a short introduction by
Francis T. Palgrave, dated August 1861. Boards cover
in blue cloth, design and text gilt. Top and bottom
trimmed, sides uncut. Second edition. Hard Cover. Published by MacMillan and Co., Ltd.
London and New York. Printed by Richard Cly and Sons, Limited,
London and Bungay. Boards are covered in blue cloth. Design
stamped and gilt on cover. |
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The Golden Treasury
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John Keats. The Apothecary Poet. By William Osler (1896) |
An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays (1908) |
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John Keats. The
Apothecary Poet. By William Osler, M.D. Read at the
John Hopkins Hospital Club, October 29, 1895. Osler
writes, "When all the circumstances are taken into
account, the English Parnassus affords no parallel
to the career of Keats... In June, 1820, appeared
Keats's third work, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.
Agnes, and other poems, which placed him in the
first rank of English writers... All lovers of
poetry cherish Keats's memory for the splendour of
the verse with which he has enriched our literature.
There is also that deep pathos in
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a life cut off in the
promise of such rich fruit. He is numbered among
‘the inheritors of unfulfilled renown’, with
Catullus and Marlowe, with Chatterton and Shelley,
whom we mourn as doubly dead in that they died so
young." Published in the John Hopkins Hospital
Bulletin, Volume VII, No. 58, January, 1896.
Reprinted here in An
Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays. By
William Osler, M.D. Published by Oxford University Press Canadian Branch. Toronto, London. 1908. |
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Reprinted here in An
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Poems by John Keats (1896) |
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Poems by John Keats, Edited,
With Introduction and Notes by Arlo Bates. Bates writes "He
continued in failing health through the spring, sometimes
better and sometimes worse, unable to do any work beyond the
revising of his last volume of poems for the press. This
appears in the summer of 1820. It was called, ‘Lamia,
Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems’. The
fragment of ‘Hyperion’ was included at the request of the
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were respectful, and in many cases
even enthusiastic. Jeffrey praised it in the Edinburgh
Review, and poor Keats, in poverty, despairing and dying,
began to be recognized as a man of genius.” Frontispiece is
a
portrait of John Keats after Hilton’s chalk drawing,
engraved by Oscar Edward Grosch. Sighed in the bottom right
hand corner by O. Grosch. Original list price $1.00.
Published as part of the Atbenaeum Press Series, by Ginn &
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Poems by John Keats
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The Eve of St. Agnes, Dramatic Ballad. From the
Poem by John Keats. (1897) |
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The Eve of St. Agnes,
Dramatic Ballad. From the Poem by Keats. Composed
for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra. By Thomas Whitney
Surette. Novello’s Original Octavo Edition. To
commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of John
Keats’ birth (1895) Surette composed a ballad of the
much loved "The Eve of St. Agnes" which was
"received with genuine enthusiasm". "Mr. Surette’s
new dramatic ballad, founded on Keats’s well-known
poem, had its first performance on February 27, in
the Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia, under the
direction of the composer. There was a large
audience which completely filled the hall, and the
work was received with genuine enthusiasm... Mr.
Surette’s composition is highly descriptive and
interesting, being distinctly modern, yet very
melodious and rich in orchestral effects, which
reflect the magic warmth of the poem most vividly...
‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ should ensure its
attractiveness to choral societies." Review
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published in Musical
Times, April 1, 1898, p264. Published by Novello,
Ewer and Co. London & New York. Copyright, 1897, by
Novello, Ewer and Co. |
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The Eve of St. Agnes,
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Poetical Works of John Keats (1898 Reeves) |
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The Poetical Works of John
Keats. Given from his own editions and other authentic
sources and collated with many manuscripts. Edited by H.
Buxton Forman. With seven portraits and ten other
illustrations. Sixth Edition. The first, second and third
editions were printed in
1883,
1884 and
1889. The four
and fifth in 1895 and 1896. Forman writes: "The manuscripts
of Endymoin, Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes and portions of
Isabella should be mentioned as especially fruitful of
various readings and canceled passages... Hunt, in his
admirable remarks upon The Eve of St. Agnes, points to the
fainting of Porphyre at sight of Madeline as the one flaw in
the poem, and apologizes for it on the score of the poet’s
enfeebled state of health at the time. But I think this is
rather hard on all three - poem, poet and disease. If it be
so decided a fault, I fear we must acquit bodily disease of
any part or lot in it, for Keats’s young people always had a
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or in his less vigorous period..."
Portrait of Keats by
Joseph Severn, etched by W. B. Scott from a Miniature in the
possession of the Editor. (Etching is imprinted with the
edge of metal plate.) Detur Bookplate. Deturs are the oldest
prizes at Harvard, dating from 1712, and still awarded
today. Students awarded these annual prizes for meritorious
work in their courses, are given a book, specially bound and
bearing the Harvard seal (front cover) and the coat of arms
of Edward Hopkins (back cover). Hopkins was a London
merchant who immigrated to Massachusetts in 1637 and made
the bequest, setting up a foundation, through which the
prizes were established. Hard Cover, rebound as a detur
(gift) by Harvard University. Published For Reeves and
Turner by Gibbings and Company, Bloomsbury. Printed at
Chiswick Press: - C. Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court,
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The Poetical Works of
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The Eve of St. Agnes (Circa 189x Frowde) |
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The Eve of St. Agnes. By John
Keats. Stamped tan suede cover, letters are gilt. Gilt
letters repeated on the spine. Pages are trimmed three
sides. Color
portrait of Keats on frontispiece. Front end paper
lining is a color illustration entitled "Isabella or the Pot
of Basil" by M. Jameson. Back end paper lining is a
color
illustration entitled "The Eve of St. Agnes" by M. Jameson.
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Henry Frowde
became manager of the Oxford University Press in 1880, and
retired in 1913. Horace Hart was appointed as Controller of
the Oxford University Press in 1884 and worked there until
his death in 1915. Little can be found about Jameson. There
was an artist M. Jameson born in 1861. Published by Henry
Frowde, London. Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford, Printer to
the University. This miniature is undated. 2.75 x 3.9. Pp
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Endymion And Other Poems (1899) |
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Endymion And Other Poems. By
John Keats. Includes The Eve of St. Agnes. Begins with an introductory biographic sketch by
H. M. (Henry Morley). Henry Morley (1822-1894) was a writer,
Professor of English Literature and a close friend of
Charles Dickens. "The Eve of St. Agnes, written in 1819,
would suffer by the loss or change of any word in it." In
addition to Endymion, poems include: The Eve of St. Agnes,
Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche,
Fancy and Ode. Upon his father’s death, Henry Altemus
(1842-1936) took over his father’s book binding and
publishing business, Altemus & Co. By the 1880s they were
producing as many as 5,000 books, bibles and elaborate
photographic albums per day. The company name evolved into
Henry Altemus. In 1899, this was published as part of the
Marqueterie Series, nearly 250 titles utilizing the same
cover design. Version 1: They were promoted as Japanese inlaid veneer
bindings in gold and various colors. The cover is imprinted
with a gold gilt design, and printed with purple, red and
light green on a wood veneer. The spine is a dark green
cloth, gilt lettering and floral design. The back cover is
covered in wood veneer. Version 2: Boards are covered in
cloth and paper. Cloth and spine are stamped with a floral
design, printed in white and green, and gilt. Paper is
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magenta (red), light and dark
blue, yellow (or green) and gilt on a stippled paper. Both
versions: The
Frontispiece is
a portrait of John Keats printed in four colors, light and
medium grey, and black imprinted on a solid "varnished"
background. The engraving is signed "Lister" (?).
First title page is half tone photograph, red text. Second title page
is two color. Published by Henry Altemus, Philadelphia. |
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Endymion And Other
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Essays In Literary Interpretation (1899) |
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Essays In Literary
Interpretation. By Hamilton Wright Mabie. Originally
published in 1892 and then again in 1893. "...It is enough
that, except Shakespeare, no English poet has found such
colour in our speech, has made it linger in the ear in
phrase so rich and full. This magical note, heard only in
the greatest poetry, is heard in Keats, - the evidence alike
of the rare quality of his genius and its depth and power."
(P.174) "The critical work of Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie is of
that high and inspiring quality which recalls Matthew
Arnold's saying that criticism and creation are not
exclusive terms in literature. Mr. Mabie's new volume is
entitled "Essays in Literary Interpretation" and contains of
Dante Gabrie Rossetti, Browning, Keats and Dante, besides
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upon the principles underlying
modern criticism and literature. No one has a deeper truer
or more sympathetic sense of the close relation of
literature to life than Mr. Mabie, and he is in full touch
with the spirit of our day without being a slave to it. His
own books, we believe, like those of which he loves to
write, are born not in the intellect, but in experience."
"The Review of Reviews," December 1892, p.624. Chapter 6:
"John Keats: Poet and Man," pp. 138-174. Original list price
$1.25. Third Edition. Published by Dodd, Mead and Company,
New York. Printed by John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U. S.
A. Boards bound in green cloth, cover and spine test and
border in gilt. Top edge trimmed and gilt, other edges
untrimmed. |
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Essays In Literary
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats (1899
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The Complete Poetical Works And
Letters of John Keats. Part of The Cambridge Poets,
Student’s Cambridge Edition. Begins with a biographical
sketch by Horace E. Scudder. "...he wrote that great group
of poems which begins with The Eve of St. Agnes and closed
with Lamia. If one takes as in some respects the high-water
mark of his genius the mystic ‘La Belle Dame sans merci,’ it
is not perhaps too speculative a judgement which sees the
keenest anguish of a passionate soul transmuted into terms
of impersonal poesy. There is no hectic flush about the
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firmness of touch and rich, yet
reserved imagination." Frontispiece is a
photogravure of John
Keats by John Andrew and Son from a painting made by
Joseph Severn in his old age after the picture painted by
him in his youth, plus a facsimile signature of John Keats.
Original list price $2.00. First edition. Hard Cover.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York,
Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco. Printed by the Riverside
Press, Cambridge. Boards covered in green cloth. Design
stamped on cover. Title in gilt on spine. |
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The Complete Poetical Works of
John Keats (Cover 1899) |
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Poetical Works of John Keats (1899 Little) |
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The Poetical
Works of John Keats. Chronologically arranged and edited, with a memoir,
By Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes), D.C.L., Hon. Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume One, Early Poems, Sonnets, Endymion,
etc. This volume does
not include "The Eve of St. Agnes". This volume begins with Houghton’s
Memoir. "The Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats,
published first in 1848, and in a more complete form in 1867, contained
the biography of the poet, mainly conveyed in the language
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correspondence... The ‘Adonais’ of Shelley remains the
immortal literary monument of the life, work, and sorrows of
John Keats." Frontispiece is an
etching of John Keats,
adapted from a portrait by Joseph Severn. Artist is
anonymous but etching possibly by H. Robinson. Published by
Little, Brown, and Company, Boston. Printed by
University Press: John Wilson
and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A. Printed on ivory laid paper, gilt top
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The Poetical Works of
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Ode to a Nightingale. La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Circa 1900) |
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Ode to a Nightingale. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
(Soft cover, Cloth mounted to stiff paper) Edition De Luxe, (Privately
Printed), Limited Edition. The Arts and Crafts Exhibition
Society was formed in London in 1887 by Walter Crane, an
artist and book illustrator. He was succeeded by British
artist William Morris in 1891. In January of 1891 Morris
formed the Kelmscott Press, for the purpose of
producing books by traditional methods, inspiring what became known as
the "Private Press Movement", resulting in an explosion of publishers in
London. Walter Crane lectured in Chicago on the Arts and Crafts movement
in 1891. Over the next few years over fifty publishing houses were
formed in Chicago, sharing a vision of producing finely printed books in
limited editions. One result in Chicago was Wright’s involvement in the
production of "The Eve of St. Agnes".
Another was Way & Williams. Johnson,
Hickborn, & Company specialized in limited editions, thus the text
"Edition De Luxe, (Privately Printed), Limited Edition", printed on the
frontispiece. One set they published included six short
volumes published in a similar fashion in green and maroon
cloth. Located to date are "Song of the Greek Poet" by Lord
Byron, "The Deserted Village" by Oliver Goldsmith, "The Blessed Damozel"
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Clare" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and C.G Rossetti, "Lochinvar"
by Sir Walter Scott, "The Mahogany Tree" by William Makepeace Thackeray,
and this volume. Johnson, Hickborn also published "Cheltenham Gravures,
a volume of photogravure portraits. This cover is green cloth mounted to
stiff paper. An off white title label is mounted to the front, printed
with a gilt design and title. Pages are bound with a green cord. The
pages are bordered with a decorative green design much like the title
page. Tipped-in the frontispiece is a photogravure
portrait of John
Keats. Artist not identified, possibly by P. Kramer after Hilton’s chalk
drawing. In 1819 or 1820, William Hilton drew a chalk drawing, of John
Keats, sketched from life. Hilton was a close friend of Keats publisher
John Taylor. Hilton’s chalk drawing was lost, but not before Charles Wass engraved it for the frontispiece of "The Poetical Works of John
Keats", 1941, published by Taylor and Walton. It was engraved and
elaborated upon by F. Croll (Parson p97),
and by P. Kramer in 1913 (Parson p97).
This unidentified illustration is very similar to, and possibly by P.
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The Complete Works of John Keats Volume I-III (1900-01
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The Complete Works of
John Keats Vol. I of V. Poems Published in 1817. Endymion.
Part of The Complete Library Series. Volume I begins
with a Preface and Memoir by Harry Buxton Forman.
"The three volumes of poetry published during Keats'
life have been reproduced upon this plan; and their
contents have been collated with all available
manuscripts and printed issues of authority, the
variations being given in foot-notes. The posthumous
and fugitive poems in order of date (as exactly as
that order can be ascertained) follow the contents
of the three printed volumes..."
Vol. II of V. Lamia, Isabella & Posthumous
Poems to 1818 Endymion. Volume II begins with a
Preface by Forman. "The most important sources of
new readings and cancelled passages in the present
in the present volume are George Keats’s little book
of holographs and transcripts in the British Museum
and Richard Woodhouse’s Common-pace book of
transcripts mentioned at pages xii-xiv of the
Preface to Volume I of this edition..."
Vol. III of V. Posthumous Poems 1812-1820.
Essays & Notes. Volume II begins with a Preface by
Forman. "The chronology of the poems published in
this third volume is continuous with that of those
forming the latter part of the second volume. As
nearly as can be ascertained, that volume brings the
Posthumous and Fugitive Poems down to the end of the
year 1818, and those here following belong to the
years 1819 and 1820..."
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Published by Gowars & Gray, Glasgow. Cover
design stamped and gilt. End pages are green.
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The Complete Works of
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The Eve of St. Agnes. By
John Keats. Deluxe green leather
cover, lettering and floral illustration gilt-stamped, end-paper
gilt-floral design. Portrait of Keats by Joseph Severn from a miniature. Title page red, green and gilt
design. Red ribbon book mark. Title page design is similar to, and the
illustration is the same as published in the
Crowell 1895 Poetical Works. Printed on laid paper with "Old Stratford
USA" watermark. Top pages gilt, others uncut. Possibly part of Crowell’s
Verona Edition. Other Verona Editions published by Thomas Y. Crowell and
Co., New York: "Saul" By Robert Browning. 1896 and 1901 (Dated). Title
page, page design and end-paper matches this
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edition. "The Traveler" By
Oliver Goldsmith. (Not Dated). Title page design matches this version. "Poor Richard's Almanac" By
Benjamin Franklin, (Not Dated) ca. 1900. Illustrated
with a tissue-protected frontis portrait of Franklin, and an
illuminated title page. Bound in green leather. "A Dream of Fair Women",
By Alfred Tennyson, not dated. Tissue-protected portrait of Tennyson.
Gilt on top edge of pages. "Lamia". By John Keats, 4.5" X 7", not dated.
Gilt top. Protected Frontispiece of author, (dated 1908 by the 1924
Boston Public Library Keats Exhibition). First edition. 4.5 x 7. (Published by Thomas Y.
Crowell and Co., New York. Not dated, Circa 1900)
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The Eve of St. Agnes by
John Keats. Possibly part of Crowell’s Laurel
Series. "This series has proved one of the most
popular of our many effective lines of gift books.
The binding is the popular ooze leather (swede) in
three shades, red, green, brown; fancy end leaves,
chaste gold stamping and each volume is boxed. Gilt
top." (Illustration of the standard volume shows
lettering in the top left corner.) The Publishers’
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Trade List Annual, 1905,
p.14. Very similar to
#41.04. Uses the same plates for pages 5-40, but
title page is different. Tan swede cover, lettering
gilt-stamped. End-paper gilt-floral design. Printed
on laid paper. Top pages gilt, others uncut. First
edition. Original list price $0.60. Published by
Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., New York. Not dated,
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The Eve of St. Agnes (1900 Seymour) |
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The Eve of St. Agnes. A
Poem by John Keats with a preface written for it by
Edmund Gosse. This books is No. 369 of an Edition
Limited to 800 copies made upon L.L. Brown’s H.M.
paper 20 copies upon Japan vellum paper & 4 copies
upon genuine parchment - printed in Chicago by R.R.
Donnelley & Sons Co. From plates made from drawings
for each page - designed & lettered by Ralph
Fletcher Seymour. In 1897 the Chicago Arts & Crafts
Society was formed at the Hull House, Wright being
one of the founding members. Seymour’s work was
strongly influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement.
The first book Seymour produced on his own was
completed in 1897, featuring John Keats’ Ode to
Melancholy. He hand-lettered the text and designed
the small book to imitate old wood block books. His
second was "Three Merry Old Tales" 1898, based on
"Shakespeare Jest Book". For his third, he chose Browning’s "Sonnets from the Portuguese." 1899. In
1900 he took over space in the Fine Arts Building
from Charles
Francis Browne. In October 1900 he published
this, his fourth book. Seymour
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dedicated this volume to
Mrs. Fanny R. Lupton. Illustrated and lettered by
hand, and printed in two colors. Decorative two page
designed title page in black and brown, followed by
a second single page title page. Wright worked with
Seymour in 1911 after his return from Europe.
Seymour published "The
Morality of Woman and Other Essays" Key,
"Love and Ethics" Key, 1912, and The Torpedo under
the Ark" also by Key in 1912. That same year he also
published Wright’s "The Japanese Print: An
Interpretation". In an article concerning Seymour’s
work, published in the "Inland Printer", June 1901,
Wallace Rice wrote, "...The crown of all this work
was issued during the year just closed in the form
of a strictly limited edition of Keat’s The Eve
of St. Agnes. For additional information
concerning Seymour work, see the
"Caxtonian"
May 2011. This volume
includes six illustrations by
Seymour plus one customized illustration accompanied
by his signature. Original list price $2.50.
Published at The Fine Arts Building Michigan Avenue
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The Poetical Works of John Keats with a
Memoir by James Russell Lowell. This edition
includes an engraved portrait of John Keats (K4C) with a facsimile
signature. Similar to the Robinson (K4E)
engraving but missing the bow. It begins with a
comprehensive bibliography "The Life of Keats" signed J. R.
L. (James Russell Lowell). "Three men almost contemporaneous with
each other, - Wordsworth, Keats, and Byron, - were the great means of
bringing back English poetry from the sandy deserts of rhetoric, and
recovering for her triple inheritance of simplicity, sensuousness, and
passion... Keats had the broadest mind, or at least his mind was open on
more sides, and he was able to understand Wordsworth and judge Bryon,
equally conscious, through his artistic sense, of the greatnesses of the
one and the many littlenesses of the other... Keats certainly had more
of the penetrative and sympathetic imagination which belongs to the
poet, of that imagination which identifies itself with the
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in him we have an example of the renaissance going on almost
under our own eyes, and that the intellectual ferment was in
him kindled by a purely English leaven.... Keats had an
instinct for fine words, which are in themselves pictures
and ideas, and had more of the power of poetic expression
than any modern English poet... The poems of Keats mark an
epoch in English poetry..." Published by Houghton, Mifflin &
Company, Boston and New York. Printed by The Riverside
Press, Cambridge. (Not dated. In The Annual American Catalog
1900, an ad for Houghton, Mifflin & Company announced the
publishing to this volume in 1900, page 258.) Published as
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The Poetical Works of
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Poetical Works of John Keats (Circa 1900 Hurst) |
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The Poetical Works of John
Keats. With a Memoir by James Russell Lowell. With
Illustrations. Publisher's Weekly, Sept 1900 -
Announcement: Hurst's Avon edition of the poets. Title in
colors. $1.00. This volume uses the plates from the 1867
edition published by James Miller (0000.11).
The frontispiece is an
engraving of John Keats by Oscar Edward Grosch after
Hilton’s chalk drawing. Some decorative illustrations signed
"Pesoa Sc." This volume begins with a comprehensive
bibliography "The Life of Keats" by James Russel Lowell.
"Three men almost contemporaneous with each other,
Wordsworth, Keats, and Byron, - were the great means of
bringing back English poetry from the sandy deserts of
rhetoric, and recovering for her triple inheritance of
simplicity, sensuousness, and passion... Keats had the
broadest mind, or at least his mind was open on more sides,
and he was able to understand Wordsworth and judge Bryon,
equally conscious, through his artistic sense, of the
greatnesses of the one and the many littlenesses of the
other..." From The Publisher's Weekly, p.432,
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the firm of Hurst &
Company, died at his home in Brooklyn, February 2nd, in his
eighty-first year. He was born in England in 1843. In 1871,
he started as a publisher and bookseller in Nassau Street,
specializing in cheap editions of standard works of which he
was one of the pioneers... Avon Edition of the Poets,
1900-1901." (First Edition) Published by Hurst & Company,
New York. Burgandy cloth, small design stamped and gilt on
cover. (Note: The Boston Public Library exhibition catalog
dates this volume 188-?, p.12.) Border stamped and black.
Spine in gilt, "Keat's [sic] Poems. Avon Edition. Hurst &
Co, New York." Pages trimmed, gilt top. Hard Cover. |
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The Sonnets of John Keats (1900) |
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First published in 1898. "This edition of the Sonnets of John
Keats, with decorated borders and initials by Christopher Dean,
was published by Geroge Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent
Garden, London, and printed at the Chiswick Press. MDCCCXCVIII.
And reprinted MDCCCC. This volume is a compilation of 54 sonnets. "A beautiful
little edition in parchment cover", The Literary World, 1898.
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Second title page and first sonnet ornately illustrated.
Part of Bell’s Sonnet Series which also included sonnets by
Shakespeare, Browning, Dante and Wordsworth. Original list
price 2s. 6d. net. Published by George Bell & Sons, London. Printed on thick laid paper. Trimmed and gilt on
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Keats. By Sidney Colvin (1901) |
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Harper &
Brothers first published this volume in 1887. The title page
has been redesigned, as has the printer’s mark. The balance
of this volume uses the same plates as the 1887 volume. A
biography and study of Keats life and work. "Science may one
day ascertain the laws of distribution and descent which
govern the firths of genius, but in meantime a birth like
that of Keats presents to the ordinary mind a striking
instance of nature's inscrutability. If we consider the
other chief poets of the time, we can commonly recognize
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strain of
power in their blood or some strong inspiring influence in
the scenery and traditions of their home... We know not how
much of Hyperion had been written when he laid it aside in
January to take up the composition of St. Agnes's Eve, that
unsurpassed example — nay, must we not rather call it
unequalled? — of the pure charm of coloured and romantic
narrative in English verse." Edited by John Morley.
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and
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The Odes of John Keats (1901) |
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The Odes of John Keats With
Illustrations by R. (Robert) Anning Bell. The iIllustrations
by Robert Anning Bell, and are taken from the edition of
Keats’ poems in the "Endymion Series". "At its price there
is not a minature volume upon the bookseller's shelves fit
to approach this charming edition. No black and white artist
is more suited by temperament to deck the poet's verse and
here Mr. Anning Bell has done some of his finest work. It is
not extravagant praise to say that this little book is a
perfect production and both artist and publishers from their
varying points of view may be proud of it." The Art Record,
December 1901, page 657, Hugh Stokes. "It is difficult to
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of Mr. Bell or the printing and
general production of the work. Both are admirable and those
who would possess a copy of Keats's 'Odes' could scarcely do
better than invest in the present pocket edition." The
Publisher's Circular, Oct 19, 1901, page 426. Although it
does not contain "The Eve of St. Agnes", we could not
resist, a beautiful little volume. Originally sold at
Brentano’s, Booksellers & Stationers, Paris. Original list
price 1s. 6d. Green leather covers medium boards, Gilt
lettering and design. Pages are trimmed three sides, gilt on
top, and printed on beige laid paper with a Lion & Anchor
logo and text "Chiswick Press" watermark. Published by
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Poetical Works of John Keats (1901 Bell) |
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The Poetical
Works of John Keats. Chronologically arranged and edited, with a memoir,
By Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes), D.C.L., Hon. Fellow of Trin.
Coll. Cambridge. Editor’s Note.
"The object of the chronological arrangement of this edition, and the
consequent insertion of some pieces of comparatively little value, is to
present a faithful self-drawn literary picture of the short and sad
poetical life. Had Keats lived to maturity his claim on the larger
sympathies of mankind... This volume alone contains all his works..."
The volume begins with the Houghton Memoir. "The Life, Letters, and
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1867, contained the biography of the poet, mainly conveyed
in the language of his own correspondence... The ‘Adonais’
of Shelley remains the immortal literary monument of the
life, work, and sorrows of John Keats." Frontispiece is an
etching of John Keats by C.H.
Jeens, adapted from a portrait by Joseph Severn. Published by George
Bell & Sons, York St., Covent Gardens, London, and New York.
Printed by Chiswick Press: C.
Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.) The Adline Edition of
British Poets. First Aldine Edition. November 1876. Reprinted. 1879,
1882, 1883, 1886, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901. |
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Endymion & The Longer Poems of
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Cover in brown leather, stamped and gilt. There is
an illustration of an owl on the cover. The second
line of
The Eve of St. Agnes
reads, "The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold."
Frontispiece is an illustration of the
Charcoal Sketch of
John Keats by
Joseph
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Severn (K3). Title page is printed in two color.
Begins with the Preface by Keats published in 1818.
Includes The Eve of St. Agnes. Printed by: "Turnbull
and Spears, Printers, Edinburgh."
Published by J. M. Dent and
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Keats’s The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems.
Edited, with Introduction and Notes By Katharine Lee
Bates (Hard Cover) (Published by Silver, Burdett and
Company, New York, Boston, Chicago. Part of The
Silver Series of Classics. Design of cover is
stamped and printed. Printed on beige paper, trimmed
three sides.
Introduction: "The world has heard much of the
hardships and sorrows in the brief life of John
Keats. Actual hardships they were, and heavy
sorrows, yet surely his joys outweighed them all. He
knew well
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the
sonnets of Shakespeare – the volume of
"Shakespeare's Poems" made a third of his knapsack
library on one of his vacation trips – yet he could
avow his belief that Shakespeare was a "perfectly
happy creature." With souls like these, the rapture
of creative effort, the ecstasy of life itself, the
glory of personality, constitute a deep delight of
which men at large, who see and understand the
common human losses, pains, and wrongs, faintly
conceive..." Frontispiece is a
Portrait of John
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Shelley’s
Adonais and Alastor. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited, With Introduction and Notes By Charles G.
D. Roberts, M.A. In Shelley’s
Introduction and biographical sketch, he writes, "On the 1st
of July (1822) Shelley set out with Williams (one of his closest
friends) in the Ariel (their yacht) to meet Leigh Hunt at Leghorn. On
the afternoon of the 8th they left Leghorn... A storm was
threatening... Then the bodies of Shelley and Williams were washed
ashore. In Shelley’s pocket was found a copy of Keats, doubled back at
‘The Eve of St. Agnes’... the ceremony was conducted by Trelawney, Hunt,
and Byron... The ashes were taken to Rome and buried in that cemetery
where lay already the poet’s child William, and his great
fellow-craftsman, Keats." In his
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preface Shelley writes.
"The genius of the lamented person to whose memory I
have dedicated these unworthy verses, was not less
delicate and fragile than it was beautiful..."
Shelley laments "I weep for Adonais - he is dead! O, weep for Adonais!
though our tears, Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head! And
thou, sad Hour, selected from all years, To mourn our loss, rouse thy
obscure compeers, And teach them thine own sorrow, say: with me Died
Adonais..." Of note is Shelley’s second wife. He was married to Mary
Shelley, novelist, who authored "Frankenstein". Published by Silver, Burdett and Company, New York,
Boston, Chicago. Part of The Silver Series of Classics, which also
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Adonais By Percy Bysshe
Shelley. "The De la More Booklets are a happy idea.
They consist of classical masterpieces in paper
covers such as Shelley's Adonais, Keats Eve of St
Agnes... These volumes are all carefully printed at
the De La More Press on very fine paper specially
made for them and are bound in an artistic manner.
The price is 6d net each in art wrappers..." From an
ad in 1905: Shelley once wrote of Keats: "The genius
of the lamented person to whose memory I have
dedicated these unworthy verses, was not less
delicate and
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fragile than it was
beautiful..." Shelley laments "I weep for Adonais -
he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears,
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head! And
thou, sad Hour, selected from all years, To mourn
our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers, And teach them
thine own sorrow, say: with me Died Adonais..."
Original list price 6d (pennies). First Edition.
Published at The De La More Press, London. |
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The Eve of St. Agnes and Sonnets (1902 Putnam's
Sons) |
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First published in 1893 as part of the 30
volume Literary Gems Series by Putnam’s (#13.09). This volume
published as part of the 56 volume Ariel Booklets Series. "A
series of productions, complete in small compass, which have
been accepted as classics of their kind." Not dated, but was
advertised in 1902 publications. "A series of charming
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little books produced in the most delightful styles.
Flexible red leather, with an appropriate design in
gold on cover, gilt tops, uncut edges, wide margins.
With photogravure frontispiece."
Photogravure of Keats
(K15) from an illustration by Joseph Severn,
Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and
London. The Knickerbocker Press. |
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The Eve of St. Agnes (1902 De La More) |
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Part of The De La More Booklet Series. "Selected Masterpieces of
Prose and Verse printed at the De La More Press in dainty
Booklets, suitable for Birthday Gifts... Also bound cloth, 1s.
net; in moreen 1s. 6d. net; or in full lambskin extra gilt and
gilt edges, 2s. 6d. net... The De La More Booklets are a happy
idea. They consist of classical masterpieces in paper covers
such as Shelley’s ‘Adonis,’ Keats’
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‘Eve of St Agnes,’ and
Milton's ‘Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity.’
" Original list price 2 Shilling 6 pennies.
Published by The De La More Press, London. Boards
covered with green leather, stamped and gilt. Cover
design signed by B.M.M. Printed on hand made paper
with a watermark. Three sides trimmed and gilt.
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