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JOHN KEATS (1795 - 1821)

"Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?" (Keats, )

ASSOCIATIONS

• Keats-Shelley Association of America
• Keats-Shelley Memorial Association

JOURNALS

• Keats-Shelley Journal

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Selected Letters of Keats.  Ed. Grant F. Scott.  2002.

  • The Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats.  Ed. Edward Hirsch.  2001.

  • The Complete Poems of John Keats.  1994.

  • Selected Poems.  1993.

  • Complete Poems,  Ed. Jack Stillinger.  1982.

  • Letters of John Keats: A New Selection.  Ed. Robert Gittings.  1970. 

  • The Letters of John Keats.  2 Vols.  Ed. Hyder Edward Rollins.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1958. 

  • Letters.  Ed. H. B. Forman.  Rev. Ed. 1952.

  • Complete Works.  5 Vols.  Ed. H. B. Forman.   1900-1901.

  • Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems.  1820.

  • Poems.  1817.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Hyperion.  1819.

  • Endymion: a Poetic Romance.  1818.

  • Letters.  1817-1818.

    • "Four Letters."  Criticism: the Major Statements.  New York: St. Martin's, 1980.

     3rd Ed. edited by Charles Kaplan and William Anderson, 1991.  300-308.

    • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  493-494.

On-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Poetical Works. 1884. (Bartleby.Com)

  • Selected Letters, 1816-1821 (EnglishHistory.Net)

  • Selected Poetry (EnglishHistory.Net)

• Selected Individual Works:

  • "To Autumn" (1819):

    • English History Version

    • Representative Version Online Version

  • "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819):

    • English History Version

    • Representative Poetry Online Version

  • "Ode on Melancholy" (1819):

    • English History Version

    • Representative Poetry Online Version

  • "Ode to a Nightingale" (1819):

    • English History Version

    • Representative Poetry Online Version

  • "Ode to Psyche" (1819):

    • English History Version

    • Representative Poetry Online Version

  • Letters (1816-1821):

    • English History Version

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Abrams, M. H.  "Varieties of Romantic Theory: Shelley, Hazlitt, Keble, and Others."  The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition.  Oxford: OUP, 1957.  125-155.

    • "Longinus, Hazlitt, Keats and the Criterion of Intensity."  132-138.

  • Allott, Kenneth.  "The ‘Ode to Psyche.'"  Keats: Odes.  Ed. G. S. Fraser. 

  • Bate, Walter Jackson.  John Keats.  1963.

  • Bate, Walter Jackson.  Negative Capability.  1939.

  • Brooks, Cleanth.  "Keats’s Sylvan Historian."  The Well-Wrought Urn.  Rpt. in Keats: Odes.  Ed. G. S. Fraser.

  • Bush, Douglas.  John Keats.  1966.

  • Caldwell, J. R.  John Keats' Fancy.  1945.

  • Davenport, Arnold.  "A Note on Autumn."  English Romantic Poets.  Ed. M. H. Abrams. 

  • Empson, William.  "The Ambiguity of ‘Melancholy.'"  Keats: Odes.  Ed. G. S. Fraser. 

  • Ende, Stuart.  Keats and the Sublime.  1976.

  • Evert, Walter.  Aesthetics and Myth in the Poetry of Keats.  1965.

  • Finney, C. L.  The Evolution of Keats' Poetry.  1936.

  • Fogle, Richard.  "A Note on Ode to a Nightingale."  English Romantic Poets.  Ed. M. H. Abrams. 

  • Fraser, G. S.  Keats's Odes. 

  • Garrod, H. W.  "The Close Connection of Thought in the Spring Odes."  Keats: Odes.  Ed. G. S. Fraser. 

  • Harland, Richard.  "Some British Themes (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley)."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  74-77.

  • Hill, J. S., ed.  Keats: Narrative Poems. 

  • Holloway, John.  "The Odes of Keats."  Keats: Odes.  Ed. G. S. Fraser. 

  • Lee, Debbie.  "African Embraces: Voodoo and Possession in Keats' Lamia."  Slavery and the Romantic Imagination.  Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2002.  123-141.

  • Levinson, Marjorie.  Keats' Life of Allegory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.

  • Mellor, Anne K.  "Keats and the Vale of Soul-Making."  English Romantic Irony
  .  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1980.  77-108.

  • Muir, Kenneth.  "The Meaning of the Odes."  Keats: Odes.  Ed. G. S. Fraser. 

  • Pyle, Forest.  "Keats: the Materialism of Poetic Resistance."  The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995.  129-146.

  • Ridley, M. R.  "The Odes and the Sonnet Form."  Keats: Odes.  Ed. G. S. Fraser. 

  • Sharp, Ronald.  Keats, Skepticism and the Religion of Beauty.  1979.

  • Sperry, Stuart M.  Keats the Poet.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1973.  [see especially “Romantic Irony: the Great Odes of Spring”]

  • Thorpe, C. D.  The Mind of John Keats.  New York: , 1926.

  • Tate, Allen.  "A Reading of Keats."  Keats: Odes.  Ed. G. S. Fraser. 

  • Unger, Leonard.  "Keats and the Music of Autumn."  Keats: Odes.  Ed. G. S. Fraser. 

  • Vendler, Helen.  The Odes of John Keats.  1983.

  • Waldoff, Leon.  "Imagination and Growth in the Great Odes."  Romanticism: a Critical Reader.  Ed. Duncan Wu. 

  • Wasserman, Earl.  The Finer Tone: Keats' Major Poems.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1953.

On-Line:

• Books and Writers: John Keats

• Incompetech.Com: John Keats

• Kirsch, Adam: Cloudy Trophies New Yorker July 7, 2008

• Literary Encyclopedia: Keats, John

• Melani, Lilia: Introduction to Keats

• Turley, Richard Maggraf: Second Only to Byron Times Literary Supplement September 3, 2008

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: John Keats

WWW GATEWAYS

• British Library: Keats Exhibition

• John-Keats.com

• Life and Work of John Keats

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