109. The Times. May 18, 1914. New Sonnets by Keats. 110. The Times Literary Supplement. May 21, 1914. John Keats. Recent Additions to our Knowledge. A Critical Note. By Ernest de Sélincourt. Both No. 109 and No. 110 show by photographic reproduction how Keats filled a page of the fly-leaf of John Hamilton Reynolds's copy of the Poems (1817, see p. lxv) by writing out the two unpublished sonnets now first included in any edition of Keats's Poetical Works (page 288). The book has lain perdu for years, and was recently found by Dr. E. Horner, who obliged the world of letters by placing his find at the disposal of The Times. I have pleasure in thanking Dr. Horner himself, the Editor of The Times, and the Editor of the Literary Supplement, for the courtesy shown me in regard to the reproduction of the sonnets in this edition. 111. The Isle of Wight County Press, June 13 and 20, 1914. Deals with the recent identification of Keats's lodgings at Carisbrooke. CHRONOLOGY OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS COMPOSITIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS 1795. John Keats's birth in Finsbury, October 31. 1797. Birth of his brother George, Spring. 1798. Birth of his brother Thomas, November 18. 1803. Birth of his sister, June 3. 1804. Death of his father, April 16. 1807. Death of his mother. 1803-9. Is educated at Mr. Clarke's school, Enfield. Begins translating THE ENEID. 1809. Apprenticed to Thomas Hammond, Surgeon. Finishes transiating THE ÆNEID. 1812. Writes IMITATION OF SPENSER. Rupture with Hammond. 1813. Introduced to Severn. 1815. Writes ODE and HYMN TO APOLLO. Writes EPISTLE TO GEORGE FELTON MATHEW, 1816. First published poem appears in The Examiner, May 5. Writes EPISTLE TO GEORGE KEATS, August. Writes EPISTLE TO CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE, Introduced to Haydon, November. Contemplates the subject of ENDYMION and writes "I stood tip-toe upon a little hill.” 1817. First volume of POEMS published, early. ENDYMION begun, Spring. Stays in the Isle of Wight, April, and Margate, May. Draft of ENDYMION finished at Burford Bridge, Sees Kean's return to the public and criticizes it in 1817-18. Winters at Hampstead. 1818. Book I of ENDYMION sent to press, January. 66 Seeing a good deal" of Wordsworth, January. Revision of ENDYMION finished, March. ISABELLA, OR THE POT OF BASIL, finished by April 27. Departure of George Keats and his bride for America, Visits the Lakes with Brown, June. Scotch tour with Brown, July and August. A flying visit to Ireland, July. A violent cold caught in the Isle of Mull, July. 66 'Cockney School” attack in Blackwood's Magazine published, August. Returns to Hampstead, August. Return of sore throat, September. Attack in The Quarterly Review published, September. Thomas Keats dies and John moves to Wentworth 1818-19. HYPERION begun, Winter. 1819. Stays at Chichester and Bedhampton, January. ODE TO PSYCHE written, April. Probably engaged to Fanny Brawne, April. LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI written, April-May. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE composed, May. Throat still sore in June and July. Visits the Isle of Wight with James Rice, July. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE published, July. Writes LAMIA, Part I, and OTHO THE GREAT, Act I, Removes with Brown to Winchester, August. OTHO THE GREAT finished, HYPERION continued, 1819. Flying visit to London and return to Winchester, September. TO AUTUMN Composed, HYPERION abandoned, LAmia finished, THE EVE OF ST. AGNES revised, September. Resolves to work for periodicals, September. Returns to Hampstead to winter, October. Leaves off animal food, October. Throat in a threatening state again, December. 1820. ODE ON A GRECIAN URN published, January. Fatal illness commences, February 3. Keats and Brown finally part at Gravesend, May 7. Fragment of THE CAP AND BELLS written, June (?). Fresh attack of blood-spitting, June 22. Returns to Wentworth Place to be nursed by Mrs. and Sails for Italy with Severn, September. His last Sonnet, written on board ship. Writes his last letter from Rome, November. 1821. His death, February 23, and burial near the tomb of Caius Cestius, February 26. |