John Keats, English Romantic poet. · Holograph poem (fragment), "Isabella, or, The pot of basil" : [ca. Apr 1818] : (S'ANA 0031) : a small clipping from a longer manuscript, with two lines on each side; including parts of stanzas XLIII and XLVI, varying slightly from published version. Published with commentary as SC 518 in Shelley and his Circle, v. VI, p. 798.
Biographical/historical: John Keats, English Romantic poet.
Content: · Holograph poem (fragment), "Isabella, or, The pot of basil" : [ca. Apr 1818] : (S'ANA 0031) : a small clipping from a longer manuscript, with two lines on each side; including parts of stanzas XLIII and XLVI, varying slightly from published version. Published with commentary as SC 518 in Shelley and his Circle, v. VI, p. 798.
· To George and Thomas Keats, his brothers : 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" [5 Jan 1818] : (S'ANA 0032) : from Featherstone Buildings; cross-written; begins, "I ought to have written before, and you should have had a long letter last week, but I undertook the 'Champion' for Reynolds, who is at Exeter." Published with extensive commentary as SC 444 in Shelley and his Circle, v. V., p. 428.
· To Fanny Brawne, his fiancée : 1 autograph letter signed : [?28 Feb 1820] : (S'ANA 0033) : [no place] : begins, "I continue much the same as usual, I think a little better." Tipped in at p. 62 of H. B. Forman's privately printed 1878 Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne. Shelved as *Pforz 558L 14. Published with commentary as SC 699 in Shelley and his Circle, v. VII, p. 847.
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