THE POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN KEATS.

With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc.

WITH PORTRAIT AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

AVA 1667

LONDON:

FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.

AND NEW YORK.

PREFACE.

EVERY year, since the death of Keats, has added to the number of those who appreciate and love his poems, and every new Edition of them has been welcomed by the Public.

The present one contains all the Poems published during the young poet's life: those in the "Literary Remains," gathered together after his death by his sympathetic editor, Lord Houghton; and several taken from papers and magazines to which Keats contributed.

The collection may therefore be considered complete, as only two or three short minor poems from his letters are not included; and two short poems, thought by Lord Houghton to be of very doubtful authenticity. Mr. Forman rejects these latter entirely, and the Editor cannot believe that they were written by Keats, the rich fruit of whose genius is contained in the present volume.