The Poetical Works And Other Writings Of John Keats Vol 4 Of 4

Author : Harry Buxton Forman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331347774
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works, Vol. 2 of 4 written by Harry Buxton Forman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetical Works, Vol. 2 of 4: And Other Writings of John Keats, Now First Brought Together, Including Poems and Numerous Letters Not Before Published; Edited With Notes and Appendices On the 12th of July 1819 Keats wrote to Reynolds that he had "proceeded pretty well with 'Lamia', finishing the first part, which consists of about four hundred lines." He adds, "I have great hopes of success, because I make use of my judgment more deliberately than 1 yet have done; but in case of failure with the world, I shall find my content." Lord Houghton records, on the authority of Charles Armitage Brown, that Lamia "had been in hand some time," and that Keats wrote it "with great care, after much study of Dryden's versification." In August Keats wrote to Baily from Winchester mentioning the "half-finished" Lamia among recent work. On the 5th of September 1819 he wrote to Taylor that he had finished Lamia since finishing "the tragedy" (Otho the Great). The manuscript of Lamia consists of twenty-six leaves, foolscap folio, generally written upon one side only. It is a carefully written manuscript, finally revised for the press, and shows unmistakeable evidence of having been used for printer's copy. The extract from Burton does not figure in it; but there is the following foot-note on page i: - "The ground work of this story will be found in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy' Part 3. Sect.3. Memb. 1st. Subs, 1st." H.B.F.] 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.