Words in italics in the original are surrounded by _underscores_.
The one Greek word has been transliterated and placed between +plus signs+.
Ellipses match the original.
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KEATS
POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1820
Edited with Introduction and Notes by
M. ROBERTSON
Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1909
PREFACE.
The text of this edition is a reprint (page for page and line for line) of a copy of the 1820 edition in the British Museum. For convenience of reference line-numbers have been added; but this is the only change, beyond the correction of one or two misprints.
The books to which I am most indebted for the material used in the Introduction and Notes are _The Poems of John Keats_ with an Introduction and Notes by E. de Selincourt, _Life of Keats_ (English Men of Letters Series) by Sidney Colvin, and _Letters of John Keats_ edited by Sidney Colvin. As a pupil of Dr. de Selincourt I also owe him special gratitude for his inspiration and direction of my study of Keats, as well as for the constant help which I have received from him in the preparation of this edition. M. R.
CONTENTS
PAGE PREFACE ii
LIFE OF KEATS v
ADVERTISEMENT 2
LAMIA. PART I 3
LAMIA. PART II 27
ISABELLA; OR, THE POT OF BASIL. A STORY FROM BOCCACCIO 47
THE EVE OF ST. AGNES 81
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE 107
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN 113
ODE TO PSYCHE 117
FANCY 122
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by John Keats
- 2: In its regret for what he might have done had he lived
- 3: Keats was passionately devoted to his mother
- 4: In 1817 Keats published his first volume of poems
- 5: The narrative poem of Endymion
- 6: He tried to re write Hyperion
- 7: Neither this nor the re cast of Hyperion was finished when
- 8: Severn nursed him with desperate devotion
- 9: To whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt
- 10: While Hermes on his pinions lay
- 11: I love a youth of Corinth O the bliss
- 12: Like a young Jove with calm uneager face
- 13: Lycius from death awoke into amaze
- 14: Had Lycius liv'd to hand his story down
- 15: Fit appellation for this dazzling frame
- 16: Mimicking a glade Of palm and plantain
- 17: And gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow
- 18: Which a death nighing moan From Lycius answer'd
- 19: When passion is both meek and wild
- 20: The little almsmen of spring bowers
- 21: For they resolved in some forest dim To kill Lorenzo
- 22: There was Lorenzo slain and buried in
- 23: At her couch's foot Lorenzo stood
- 24: But there is crime a brother's bloody knife
- 25: And Isabella did not stamp and rave
- 26: Sat her there Beside her Basil
- 27: Asking for her lost Basil amorously
- 28: With heart on fire For Madeline
- 29: While Porphyro upon her face doth look
- 30: For heaven Porphyro grew faint She knelt
- 31: Trembling in her soft and chilly nest
- 32: While still her gaze on Porphyro would keep
- 33: But a boon indeed Arise arise
- 34: Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme
- 35: Thy incense sweet From swinged censer teeming
- 36: Like to bubbles when rain pelteth
- 37: Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern
- 38: And if Robin should be cast Sudden from his turfed grave
- 39: Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes
- 40: Peers like the front of Saturn
- 41: Blazing Hyperion on his orbed fire Still sat
- 42: And bid old Saturn take his throne again
- 43: O brightest of my children dear
- 44: A disanointing poison so that Thea
- 45: A quadruple wrath Unhinges the poor world
- 46: Fairer far Than Chaos and blank Darkness
- 47: Still is undisgraced Hyperion
- 48: Hyperion from the peak loud answered
- 49: Full ankle deep in lilies of the vale
- 50: Stedfast kept Trembling with light upon Mnemosyne
- 51: ' Lamia struck his imagination
- 52: 'smeared with gums of glutinous heat
- 53: The Pleiades are seven stars making a constellation
- 54: The mother of Proserpine Lamia
- 55: The story of Isabella he took from Boccaccio
- 56: Which Coleridge adopted with magic effect in Christabel
- 57: Oh what can ail thee Knight at arms So haggard
- 58: Italian pieces of money worth about 4 s
- 59: Obviously Keats was not an angler
- 60: Love seeketh not itself to please
- 61: And bids the reader turn to Boccaccio
- 62: The dark underworld of the dead
- 63: Rails which enclose them in a place of torture
- 64: 'Your argosies with portly sail
- 65: Introduction to the ode to a nightingale
- 66: Yet Keats closes this ode triumphantly
- 67: Keats is again obviously thinking of Titian's picture Cf
- 68: Introduction to the ode to psyche
- 69: All fledged with Ash and other beautiful trees'
- 70: To which Keats refers as the Mermaid
- 71: The shrill sound of the ivory horn
- 72: And from this Oceanus deduces 'the eternal law
- 73: De Selincourt writes 'I conceive that Apollo
- 74: Inevitable characteristics of the art of sculpture
- 75: Trembling like the leaves of the aspen poplar
- 76: A characteristic coinage of Keats
- 77: Dorian music was martial and manly
- 78: The island where Apollo was born