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Copyright © 1958 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College Copyright © renewed 1986 by Herschel C. Baker,
the Executor of the author Hyder Edward Rollins
Copyright © 2002 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
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First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2005
Keats, John, 1795–1821.
[Correspondence. Selections]
Selected letters of John Keats / edited by Grant F. Scott. —Rev. ed.
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Rev. ed. of: The letters of John Keats, 1814–1821. 1958.
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1. Keats, John, 1795–1821—Correspondence.
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I. Scott, Grant F.
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c o n t e n t s
Preface
xiii
Editorial Procedures
xv
Acknowledgments
xix
Introduction
xxi
Events in the Life of John Keats
xxxv
Keats’s Correspondents
xxxix
l e t t e r s ,
1816–1821
1816–1817
c . c . c l a r k e
September . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
c . c . c l a r k e
9 October . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7
c . c . c l a r k e
31 October . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8
b. r. h ay d o n
20 November . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9
c . c . c l a r k e
17 December . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10
j . h . r e y n o l d s
17 March . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12
g e o r g e a n d to m k e at s
15 April . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13
j . h . r e y n o l d s
17, 18 April . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15
l e i g h h u n t
10 May . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
b. r. h ay d o n
10, 11 May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
22
tay l o r a n d h e s s e y
16 May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
26
tay l o r a n d h e s s e y
10 June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
27
j a n e a n d m a r i a n e r e y n o l d s
4 September . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
28
vi
c o n t e n t s
j . h . r e y n o l d s
September . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
30
fa n n y k e at s
10 September . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
31
j . h . r e y n o l d s
21 September . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
34
b. r. h ay d o n
28 September . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
b e n j a m i n b a i l e y
8 October . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
41
b e n j a m i n b a i l e y