Selected letters of John Keats
By: edited by Grant F. Scott.
Contributors: Scott, Grant F.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Correspondence; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: "The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably.".

"Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It also offers a revealing look at his "posthumous existence," the period of Keats's illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keat's deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr.

James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse - omitted from other selections of Keats's letters - offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Based on the texts of Hyder Edward Rollins."
Rev. ed. of The letters of John Keats, 1814-1821. 1958.