Poetry and Prose: A book of fresh verses and new readings--essays and letters lately found--and passages formerly suppressed

By John Keats

Edited by H. Buxton Forman

Contents

New Readings in "Hadst thou liv'd in days of old"

New Readings in the Epistle to George Keats

Cancelled Passages of Lamia

Rejected Stanza and Variations in Isabella

Rejected Stanza and Variations in The Eve of St. Agnes

Variations in the Ode to a Nightingale

Variations in the Ode to Psyche

Variations in Fancy

Variations in Lines on the Mermaid Tavern

Variations in Robin Hood

Cancelled Passages of Hyperion

Women, Wine and Snuff, additional "Nonsense Verses"

New Readings in the Hymn to Apollo

Variation in the Sonnet "After dark vapors"

New Readings in "Unfelt, unheard, unseen"

Variation in the Sonnet on the Sea

Variations in "Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow

Variation in the sonnet "When I have fears"

Variations in the Sonnet to Homer

Sonnet: The Human Seasons, Fresh Version

New Readings in Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair

Variation in the Sonnet on Sitting Down to Read King Lear once again

New Readings in the Sonnet to the Nile

New Readings in the Sonnet "Blue! 'Tis the life of Heaven"

Variations in "I had a dove"

New Readings in Lines Written in the Highlands

Cancelled Passage of Staffa

Variations in the Sonnet "Why did I laugh to-night?"

Variation in the Sonnet on a Dream After Reading Dante's Episode of Paulo and Francesca

Variations in Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown

New Readings in the Song of Four Faeries

An Extempore, Episode for a Comic Poem

New Readings in Sonnets on Fame

Variations in Sonnet to Sleep

New Readings in La Belle Dame sans Merci

Cancelled Passages of King Stephen

Variations in "Nonsense Verses" on Oxford

Variations in Sonnet to Mrs. Reynolds's Cat

Sonnet to Keats on Reading his Sonnet written in Chaucer, by John Hamilton Reynolds

Review of Reynolds's Peter Bell

Notice of Retribution, or the Chieftain's Daughter, a Tragedy

Notice of Don Giovanni, a Pantomime

Fresh Letters and Additional Passages

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