NOTES TO VOLUME II. Lamia, and other Poems. Published in 1820. THE publishers seem to be responsible for the statement about the abandonment of "Hyperion." Keats, writing to J. H. Reynolds on September 22, 1819, says:-"I have given up 'Hyperion '-there were too many Miltonic inversions in it. Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humour." P. 7. Lamia. This poem was in the main, if not entirely, written at Shanklin and Winchester between July 1st and September 5th, when Keats, writing to Taylor, the publisher, announces that it is finished, and copies out ll. 122-145 as "a sample of the story." P. 35. Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. Keats had agreed with J. H. Reynolds that they should write some tales of Boccaccio in verse and publish them together; he, accordingly, began "Isabella" in February 1818, continued it during his stay at Teignmouth in March, and on April 27th wrote to Reynolds that it was finished. Reynolds' own share in the undertaking was published in "The Garden of Florence" in 1821. P. 59. The Eve of St. Agnes. Founded Written in January 1819 at Chichester, and under revision in September of the same year. upon the superstition that upon January 20th, the eve of St. Agnes' Day, "by taking certain measures of divination, damsels may get a sight of their future husbands in a dream. The ordinary process seems to have been by fasting." P. 79. Ode to a Nightingale. Written in May 1819 in the garden at Wentworth Place, and published in July following in the Annals of the Fine Arts, a quarterly magazine edited by James Elmes. P. 82. Ode on a Grecian Urn. This also belongs to the spring of 1819, and was also published in the Annals of the Fine Arts. P. 84. Ode to Psyche. Included in a letter to George Keats and his wife under date April 30, 1819. Keats says of it :-" The following Poem-the last I have written-is the first and the only one with which I have taken even moderate pains." P. 87. Fancy. This appears in a journal-letter to George and Georgiana Keats, December 1818–January 3, 1819. P. 91. Copied in the letter mentioned in the previous note. It is also written in Keats' copy of Beaumont and Fletcher, now in the possession of Sir Charles Dilke. Ode. Bards of Passion and of Mirth. P. 92. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern. This and the following poem, Robin Hood, were included in a letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 3, 1818. P. 131. Hyperion: A Vision. The Lamia volume ends with the fragment of Hyperion, and this re-cast of the poem, first published by Lord Houghton in Bibliographical and Historical Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, vol. iii., 1856-7, and afterwards in the second edition of the Life, Letters, &c., should strictly be included among the Posthumous Poems. It was for some time taken, upon Lord Houghton's authority, for an earlier version of Hyperion. P. 151. To Byron. Printed in the Life, Letters, &c., 1848, and dated December 1814. P. 152. To Chatterton. From the same source as the preceding. P. 152. To Spenser. Life, Letters, &c., 1848. P. 153. Ode to Apollo. Life, Letters, &c. Dated February 1815. P. 155. Hymn to Apollo. Life, Letters, &c. P. 157. As from the darkening gloom, &c. Aldine Edition, 1876. Dated 1816. P. 157. Oh how I love, &c. Life, Letters, &c. Dated 1816. P. 158. Fresh morning gusts, &c. Life, Letters, &c. P. 159. The church bells toll'd, &c. Aldine Edition, 1876. Dated in a copy-book belonging to Tom Keats, December 24, 1816. P. 159. After dark vapours, &c. First printed in The Examiner of February 23, 1817; reprinted by Lord Houghton, and dated January 1819. P. 160. This pleasant tale, &c. Written in February 1817, and published in The Examiner, March 16, 1817. P. 161. Two Sonnets. Life, Letters, &c. ; previously printed in The Examiner, March 9, 1817, and in Annals of the Fine Arts. P. 162. On a Picture of Leander. First printed in The Gem in 1829. P. 163. On * * * * * Life, Letters, &c.; dated 1817. Life, Letters, &c. P. 164. Lines. |