Download or read book The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats, Vol. 1 of 4 written by John Keats and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats, Vol. 1 of 4: Now First Brought Together Including Poems and Numerous Letters Not Before Published In the present edition of Keats's whole writings, the main features of my Library edition are reproduced. The voluminous illustrative appendices are not given; but so much of their substance as is necessary for general use is extracted and distributed under other heads; and in all essential matters this edition is the Library edition brought up to date. The principles of editorship are thus the same as in my large edition of Shelley in eight volumes. The plan has been to gather together everything which could be found from the hand of the poet, to establish the text as nearly as possible in accordance with what he wrote or meant to write, to make no changes without record, to set out fully in foot-notes all authoritative variations of text, rejected passages, &c., and to elucidate and illustrate from such printed and manuscript sources as were open to me. The three volumes of poetry published during Keats's life have been reproduced upon this plan; and their contents have been collated with all available manu scripts and printed issues of authority, the variations being given in foot-notes. The posthumous and fugitive poems in order of date (as exactly as that order can be ascertained) follow the contents of the three printed volumes. The literary fragments and notes in prose naturally follow the posthumous poetry; and the letters come last, also in order of date as exactly as that order can be ascertained, - for they are by no means invariably dated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.