PUBLISHERS' NOTE in explanation of the different types employed. In order to prevent a difficulty that sometimes arises of distinguishing between the author and the editor, especially when author's and editor's notes to a text both occur, the following plan has been adopted. The text of the author and its variants have been printed throughout in 'old style' type, while all notes &c. added by the editor have been set in 'condensed' type. It is hoped that this innovation will be found of no small service to the general reader as well as to the student. li The poems preceding 'Endymion' are the contents of a small volume published early in 1817 with a title-page worded as follows: POEMS, BY JOHN KEATS. "What more felicity can fall to creature, Fate of the Butterfly.-SPENSER, LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. & J. OLLIER, 3, WELBECK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. 1817. This book, Keats's first substantive publication, though worked in fours, is a foolscap octavo, each sheet of paper being cut in halves. It was issued in drab boards, with a back label "Keats's Poems," and consists of a blank leaf, fly-title 'Poems' in heavy black letter, with imprint on verso, "Printed by C. Richards, No. 18, Warwick Street, Golden Square, London," title-page as given above, Dedication with a note on the verso, and pages 1 to 121 including the fly-titles to the Epistles, Sonnets, and 'Sleep and Poetry'. There are head-lines in Roman capitals running throughout each section, recto and verso alike, (1) ‘Poems', (2) 'Epistles', (3) 'Sonnets', and (4) 'Sleep and Poetry'. The note after the Dedication is as follows: "The Short Pieces in the middle of the book, as well as some of the Sonnets, were written at an earlier period than the rest of the Poems." Leigh Hunt, reviewing with characteristic boldness, loyalty, and insight this volume, dedicated to him, laid his finger unerringly on its weak and strong points. His review appeared in 'The Examiner' for the 1st of June and 6th and 13th of |