Keats: A Bibliography and Reference Guide with an Essay on Keats' Reputation

8vo (23.5 cm), LXXXI, 210 pp. Publisher's navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt with decorative red panel (binding slightly rubbed). The standard bibliography of Keats, providing a comprehensive joint catalogue of the poet's published writings in their many editions, together with significant books and articles about him and his work from 1816 to 1946. The volume is prefaced by a substantial introductory essay tracing the development of Keats's reputation from Hunt and Jeffrey through Middleton Murry and Allen Tate, and situating his critical reception within changing literary taste. The bibliography itself is organised in twenty-five sections (A--Y), covering the three original volumes of poetry and their later forms, collected and selected poems, individual poems, collected and selected letters, miscellaneous prose, periodical appearances of Keats's writings from 1816 to 1847, contemporary reviews and criticism, biography and later critical studies, special studies, translations, fictional and dramatic treatments of Keats, materials relating to the Keats Circle, Enfield, Hampstead, and Rome, bibliographies, and other related material. A detailed and systematically arranged reference work essential to Keats scholarship and Romantic bibliographical studies. …