The Cambridge Companion to Keats by Susan J. Wolfson

Author:Susan J. Wolfson
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

NOTES

1 In Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (1828), Leigh Hunt excerpted a letter (10 May 1817; KL 1.136–40); R. M. Milnes published about eighty letters (whole or excerpted) in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848).

2 Lionel Trilling, The Opposing Self, 3–49.

3 See John Barnard, John Keats, 141–44.

4 Timothy Webb, “‘Cutting Figures’: Rhetorical Strategies in Keats’s Letters,” Keats: Bicentenary Readings, ed. Michael O’Neill (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), 144–69; Wolfson, “Keats the Letter-Writer: Epistolary Poetics,” 59; Cedric Watts, A Preface to Keats (London: Longman, 1985), 160–61; Andrew Bennett, Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing.

5 No letters survive from before December? 1814 and very few until the summer of 1816, when (not long before his twenty-first birthday) Keats dedicated himself to poetry.

6 There are also over forty letters from Keats known about, but lost. In 1995, one such, to his brothers, 30 January 1818, was discovered in Altavista, Virginia; see Dearing Lewis, “A John Keats Letter Rediscovered,” KSJ 47 (1998), 14–18.

7 See Keats’s letter to Reynolds 3 February 1818 (KL 1.225), and John Barnard’s essay, “Keats’s ‘Robin Hood,’ John Hamilton Reynolds, and the ‘Old Poets,’” Proceedings of the British Academy 75 (1989), 181–200.

8 For details of the postal service, see Shelley and his Circle vol. 2, ed. Kenneth Neill Cameron (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1961), 914–25, and vol. 4, ed. Donald H. Reiman (1973), xxii–iv. Other information used below about Keats’s letter of 8 July 1820 to Fanny Brawne is from W. H. Reid and J. Wallis, The Panorama (London, [1820]), 54, and Paterson’s Roads (18th edn.; London, 1826), 27.

9 Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, Recollections of Writers (1878), 128–30; “Recollections of John Keats” first appeared in Atlantic Monthly, 1861, then Gentleman’s Magazine, 1874.

10 For Keats’s letter of 20 November, see Andrew Motion’s Keats, 128, and the plate in KL 1, after 114; for the group of letters, see KL 1.117–20. Keats put the sonnet in Poems (1817), the second of two addressed to Haydon.

11 KL 2.238 (British Library Add MS 34019 ff.24v and 27v). James Tassie manufactured immensely popular colored paste reproductions of antique gems, as well as signets to use on sealing wax.

12 For the letters’ texts, see KL 1.327–33 and 333–36. For plates, see Robert Woof and Stephen Hebron, John Keats (Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust, 1995), 111; for the first page of the letter of 10 July, and for a detail of the letter of the 17th, see Carol Kyros Walker, Walking North With Keats, illustration 78.

13 For the letter to Bailey, see Motion’s Keats, 209; for the letter to Taylor, see the plate in KL 2, after 208. Keats’s reference to this practice, in a letter to Reynolds 3 May 1818 (KL 1.280), is quoted below.

14 For a photograph, see Timothy Hilton, Keats and his World (London: Thames and Hudson, 1971), 122. Tootts is probably Fanny’s ten-year-old sister; Sam is her teenage brother; the Brawnes were residing in Dilke’s half of Wentworth Place.

15 Watts, Preface to Keats, 162,

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