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 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. 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 Keats'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 additional testimony concerning Keats the man.
- ISBN10 0674007492
- ISBN13 9780674007499
- Publish Date 27 June 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 April 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition 1814th Revised ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 576
- Language English