that in all these points Keats was supreme, even in his generation; but it might well be conceded that, in the differentia of his mind and style, there is a magic, a majesty, a power of realizing conceptions wholly poetic in a manner wholly poetic, such as no English poet since Shakespeare had possessed, unless indeed it were Milton. 46 Marlborough Hill, St. John's Wood, London, November 1900. H. B. F. LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS CONSULTED. Under this head it is not proposed to attempt a bibliography of Keats's works and of related books, or even to set down all the works to which passing references are made in the editorial portions of the present volumes. But as it has been necessary to draw more or less largely on a considerable number of substantive works, it seems desirable to supplement, by means of a list of the principal or most notable of these, the information given in the preface as to the sources of this edition. Keats's three volumes published in his life-time, in 1817, 1818, and 1820, do not head this list, as each is fully described in the note prefixed to its contents as printed in the present edition. No second edition of the 'Poems,' 'Endymion,' or 'Lamia, &c,' was published during the poet's life: hence the sources of "various reading" are either manuscripts or prints occurring in periodical and other works not by Keats. Such works will be found fully referred to in the foot-notes. 1. Annals of the Fine Arts, for MDCCCXVI... London... Sherwood, Neely, and Jones... 1817. 2. Annals of the Fine Arts, for MDCCCXVII... London ... 1818. These five octavo volumes were edited by James Elmes; but the ruling spirit and chief contributor to the work was Haydon, although Keats, Wordsworth, Hazlitt, Lamb, and Southey, all figure in its pages. Three numbers appeared in 1816, four each in 1817, 1818, and 1819, and two in 1820,-seventeen in all. One of Haydon's many fine dissertations, that, namely, on Visconti's mistake as to the action of the Ilissus in the Elgin collection appeared as an octavo pamphlet in French, so determined was the learned painter to make his voice heard throughout Europe on this subject. 6. Erreur de Visconti relative a l'Action de la Statue de l'Ilissus dans la collection d'Elgin, au Museum Britannique. Par B. R. Haydon, Peintre d'Histoire. Londres: Imprimé par Bulmer et Cie. Cleveland-Row, St. James's. 1819. 7. The Literary Pocket-Book; or, Companion for the Lover of Nature and Art. 1819. (To be continued annually.) London:... Ollier, Vere-Street, (where communications will be received.) ... [1818]. 8. The Literary Pocket-Book... 1820... London [1819]. 9. The Literary Pocket-Book... 1821 ... London [1820]. 10. The Literary Pocket-Book 1822... London [1821]. 11. The Literary Pocket-Book... 1823 ... London [1822]. 12. Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries; with Recollections of the Author's Life, and of his Visit to Italy. By Leigh Hunt... London ... Colburn ... 1828 [one volume, quarto]. 13. Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries... Second Edition. In two volumes [8vo.]... London... Colburn ... 1828. 14. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in one volume [royal 8vo.]. Paris... Galignani ... 1829. 15. Leigh Hunt's London Journal. To Assist the Inquiring, Animate the Struggling, and Sympathize with All. London... Knight... 1834 and 1835 [two volumes, folio]. ... 16. Smith's Standard Library. The Poetical Works of John Keats. London... MDCCCXL [one volume, royal 8vo.]. 17. The Poetical Works of John Keats. London... Smith... MDCCCXLI [one volume, foolscap 8vo.]. 18. The Philosophy of Mystery. By Walter Cooper Dendy, Fellow and Honorary Librarian of the Medical Society of London: Senior Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary for Children, &c., &c. London ... Longmans ... 1841 [one volume, 8vo.]. 19. Imagination and Fancy; or Selections from the English Poets, illustrative of those First Requisites of their Art; with Markings of the best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writings, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, 'What is Poetry?' By Leigh Hunt... London... Smith, Elder and Co. ... 1844 [one volume crown 8vo.]. 20. Imagination and Fancy ... Third Edition ... 1852. 21. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. By Thomas Medwin. In Two Volumes [crown 8vo.]... London... Newby ... 1847. The copy used is one (penes me) profusely corrected and annotated by Medwin and described by him as "corrected for a new edition just about to appear"; but it has certainly not been handled as "copy" by a printer ; and I am unable to ascertain that any such edition as was thus prepared by the author ever really appeared. 22. Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats. Edited by Richard Monckton Milnes. In Two Volumes [foolscap 8vo. ]... London... Moxon ..... 1848. The particular copy used originally in preparing the Library edition was one in Sir Charles Dilke's collection, largely annotated in manuscript by his grandfather, Charles Wentworth Dilke, the friend of Keats. As Sir Charles allowed me to copy the whole of the notes, I have been able to refer to them again when necessary in preparing the present edition. 23. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt; with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries... In Three Volumes [crown 8vo.]... London: Smith, Elder and Co. ...1850. 24. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt... A New Edition, Revised by the Author; with farther Revision, and an Introduction, by his Eldest Son [Thornton Hunt]... London: Smith, Elder and Co. ... MDCCCLX [one volume, crown 8vo.]. 25. The Poetical Works of John Keats. A new Edition, London ... Moxon ... 1851 [one volume foolscap 8vo. 1. 26. Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter, from his Autobiography and Journals. Edited and Compiled by Tom Taylor. ... In Three Volumes [crown 8vo.]... London... Longmans... 1853. 27. Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon ... By Tom Taylor ... Second Edition ..... in three Volumes [with additions] ... London ... Longmans... 1853. 28. The Poetical Works of John Keats. With a Memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes. London Moxon... 1854 [one volume, foolscap 8vo.]. 29. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt. Edited by his Eldest Son ... In Two volumes [crown 8vo.] ... London... Smith, Elder & Co. ... MDCCCLXII. 30. Essays and Poems. Selected from the Literary Remains of F. Hinde, M.A., Oxon. Liverpool: Gilbert G. Walmsley ... 1864. This little post 8vo. volume contains a notable appreciation of Keats's Life and Works, said to have been read before the Liverpool Philomathic Society in 1862. 31. The Poetical Works of John Keats. With a Memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes. A New Edition. London... Moxon ... 1863 [one volume, foolscap 8vo.]. 32. The Poetical Works of John Keats. With a Memoir, by Lord Houghton. A new, revised, and enlarged edition. London... Moxon ... 1865 [one volume, foolscap 8vo.]. 33. The Poetical Works of John Keats. Lord Houghton. Illustrated by ... George With a Memoir by the Right Hon. [one volume, 8vo., first published in a very handsome form in 1854]. 34. The Life and Letters of John Keats. By the Right Hon. Lord Houghton. A new Edition. London... Moxon ... 1867 [one volume, crown 8vo.]. 35. On the Study of Celtic Literature. By Matthew Arnold, Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. London: Smith, Elder and Co. ... 1867 [one volume, 8vo. 1. 36. The Poetical Works of John Keats. Edited with a Critical Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated by Thomas Seccombe. London... Moxon [no date, one volume, post 8vo., "Moxon's Popular Poets"]. 37. Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays. By David Masson, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874 [one volume, post 8vo.]. 38. The Papers of a Critic. Selected from the Writings of the Late Charles Wentworth Dilke. With a Biographical Sketch by his Grandson, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart., M.P.... In Two Volumes [8vo.]... London... Murray... 1875. 39. Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-Talk. With a Memoir by his Son, Frederic Wordsworth Haydon. With Facsimile Illustrations from his Journals. In Two Volumes [8vo.] ... London: Chatto and Windus... 1876. 40. The Poetical Works of John Keats. Chronologically arranged and edited, with a Memoir by Lord Houghton, D.C.L., Hon. Fellow of Trin. Coll. Cambridge. London: George Bell and Sons ... 1876. [Aldine edition, one volume, foolscap 8vo.] 41. Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall). An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. London: George Bell and Sons ... 1877 [one volume, 8vo.]. 42. Clarendon Press Series Keats Hyperion, Book I Edited with Notes W. T. Arnold, B.A.... Oxford... MDCCCLXXVIII [pamphlet, crown 8vo.]. 43. Recollections of Writers. By Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke... London: Sampson Low ... 1878 [one volume, crown 8vo.]. 44. Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne Written in the Years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the Original Manuscripts with Introduction and Notes by Harry Buxton Forman... London... Reeves & Turner... MDCCCLXXVIII [one volume, foolscap 8vo.]. 45. Lives of Famous Poets. By William Michael Rossetti. A Companion Volume to the Series Moxon's Popular Poets. London ... Moxon ... 1878 [one volume, crown 8vo.]. 46. The Poetical Works of John Keats. Chronologically arranged and edited, with a Memoir, by Lord Houghton ... Second Edition [of the Aldine edition] ... 1879. 47. John Keats A Study By F. M. Owen ... London C. Kegan Paul & Co. ... 1880 [one volume, crown 8vo.]. 48. The English Poets Selections with Critical Introductions by various Writers and a General Introduction by Matthew Arnold edited by Thomas Humphrey Ward, M.A. London Macmillan and Co. 1880 [four volumes, crown 8vo.]. The fourth volume, "The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Dobell," includes, of course, a selection from Keats's works. This is preceded by an Essay from the pen of Matthew Arnold. 49. English Literature by the Rev. Stopford Brooke, M.A. London: Macmillan and Co. 1880 [one volume, medium 8vo.]. This book was originally issued as a "Primer of English Literature "— which title it bears as a "dropped head" above Chapter I. 50. 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 [demy 8vo.] ... London Reeves & Turner... 1883. This was the first attempt to collect and set out the whole of Keats's Writings. The volumes contained in addition to all the Writings of |