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John Keats

Male : Romantic Poet. Died of TB in Rome
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Swan & Hoop Stables, Finsbury Pavement, City of London

Date of Birth : 1795 Date of Death : 1821 Age : 26

Other Work : Apothecary 1816

Education : Rev John Clarke's School, Enfield
1817-1830
Poems
(1817 Charles & James Ollier)
[Quaritch bought a signed copy at auction in 1907 for £90]
Endymion : A Poetic Romance
(1818 Taylor & Hessey, London)
[John Wilson Croker reviewed this work unfavourably in the Quarterly Review,
which was said to have hastened the poet's death]

[A copy sold at auction in 1972 for £6,200]
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes & Other Poems
(1820 Taylor & Hessey)
[In 1997 an American dealer had this on offer at $22,000 !]
[The only works published before his death]
Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelly & Keats
(1829 A & W Galighasi, Paris)

1831-1850
The Poetical Works
(1841 William Smith, London)
The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman & Keats
(1845 Cowperthwait, Phila)
Life, Letters and Literary Remains
(1848 Moxon) - 2 vols
(1848 Putnam, NY) - edited by Richard Monckton Milnes
Poetical Works : A New Edition
(1849 Moxon)

1851-1875
Poetical Works
(1854 Moxon) - contains memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes. George Scharf Jnr
The Eve of St Agnes
(1856 Cundall for Sampson Low) - E H Wehnert
Keatsii Hyperionis Libri I & II : Latine reddidit Carolus Merivale
(1862 Macmillan)
The Eve of St Agnes
(1862 Sampson Low) - Edward H Wehnert

1876-1900
The Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
(1878 Reeves & Turner) (1878 Scribner, Armstrong, NY)
Poetical Works & other Writings
(1883 Reeves & Turner) - 4 vols. Edited by H Buxton Forman
Offered in 1999 for £335
Ode to a Nightingale
(1884 PP) - 25 copies. Intro by T J Wise
Three Essays
(1889 for PP distrib) - 50
The Poems
(1894 Kelmscott Press) - 307
The Letters of John Keats
(1895 Reeves & Turner) - edited by H Buxton Forman
Ode, Sonnets & Lyrics
(1895 Daniel Press, Oxford) - 250
Poems
(1897 Bell) (1898 Bell 2nd Ed) - Robert Anning Bell
Isabella or The Pot of Basil
(1898 Kegan Paul) - W B MacDougall
Eve of St Agnes
(1900 Essex House Press) - 125

1901-1910
Odes
(1901 Bell) - Robert Anning Bell
Endymion : A Poetic Romance
(1902 Elston Press, NY) - 160
Offered in 1998 for £280
Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes
(1902 Bell) - Robert Anning Bell
The Poems
(1904 Chiswick Press) - 2 vols. 350
Poems
(1907 Jack / Caxton) - E J Sullivan
Isabella, or The Pot of Basil
(1907 T N Foulis) - Jessie M King
Unpublished Poem to His Sister Fanny, April 1818
(1909 Bibliophile Society, Boston) - 489

1911-1920
Letters to Fanny Brawne
(1901 Broughton & Barclay Dunham, NY) - 250
Endymion : A Poetic Romance from the Original 1818 Edition
(1902 Elston, NY)
The Odes
(1908 Astolat Press, London)
Poems
(1914 Doves Press) - 200
The Keats Letters Papers and Other Relics forming the Dilke Bequest in the Hampstead
Public Library
(1914 John Lane) - 320
The Poems
(1915 Florence Press, London) - 2 vols
The Poetical Works
(1916 H & S) - Claude A Shepperson

1921-1930
The Complete Works
(1921-9 Gowans & Gray, Glasgow) - 5 vols
Odes
(1923 Duckworth) - 170 signed by Vivien Gribble
Endymion : Type-facsimile
(1927 OUP)
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes & Other Poems
(1928 Golden Cockerel Press) - Robert Gibbings. 485 numbered
Offered in 1999 for £210
The Collected Sonnets
(1930 Stols, Maastricht) - J Buckland Wright. 376

After 1931
The Letters
(1931 OUP) - 2 vols. Edited by Maurice Buxton Forman
(1935 OUP. 2nd Ed - single vol)
The Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
(1931 Halcyon Press, Maastricht, Holland) - 356
Anatomical and Physiological Notebook
(1934 OUP) - 350 copies
The Poetical Works of John Keats
(1939 OUP) - edited by H W Garrod
Orion & Other Anonymous Poems and Hitherto Unpublished Poems
(1939 Mark Twain Society, Missouri)
Hyperion
(nd. 1945 Corvinus Press)
La Belle Dame Sand Merci
(1946 Eragny Press) - 210 copies
Endymion : A Poetic Romance
(1947 Golden Cockerel Press) - J Buckland Wright. 500
Offered in 1995 for £325 & a signed edition for £1300 in 1999
The Letters
(1952 OUP. 4th ed) - Revised Edition. Ed by Maurice Buxton Forman
More Letters and Poems of the Keats Circle
(1955 Harvard UP)
Poems
(edited by J M Murry) (1958 London) - Michael Ayrton
The Poems
(1966 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by David Gentleman
The Poems of John Keats : Edited by Jack Stillinger
(1978 Heinemann £18) - slipcase

READING
Dane Baldwin : A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats
(1917 Carnegie Inst, Washington) - et al
Sir Sidney Colvin : John Keats
(1920)
John Middleton Murry : Studies in Keats
(1930)
Dorothy Hewlett : A Life of John Keats
(nd. Hurst & Blackett)
J R Macgillivray : Keats - A Bibliography
(1949 Toronto UP)
Robert Gittings : John Keats
(1968 Heinemann)
Timothy Hilton : Keats and His World
(1971 T & H)
Tim Chilcott : A Publisher and His Circle - The Life and Work of John Taylor, Keats's Publisher
(1972 Routledge)
Stephen Coote : John Keats - A Life
(1995 Hodder & Stoughton £18)
(Ed) Nicholas Roe : Keats and History (1995 CUP £37.50)
Andrew Motion : Keats
(1997 Faber £20)

Related Writers

Michael Ayrton
Golden Cockerel Press
Mark Twain


See also

Bibliographical Series
Edmund Charles Blunden
Robert Seymour Bridges
John Buckland-wright
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
Folio Society
Robert John Gibbings
Kelmscott Press, The
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics
Percy Bysshe Shelley