Keats’s Poetry and Prose
Selected and Edited by Jeffrey N. Cox, professor of English and of comparative literature and humanities, and associate vice chancellor for faculty affairs
W. W. Norton
This Norton Critical Edition seeks to return John Keats — one of the most beloved poets in the English language — to his cultural moment by tracing his emergence as a public poet. For this reason, Keats’s Poetry and Prose presents the poems Keats published in his lifetime as they entered into print. Readers can trace the poems through Keats’s engaging and insightful letters, reviews, and related materials — chronologically interleaved with the texts, with the unpublished poems arranged by date of composition to provide the context for his public work. Jeffrey Cox has edited Keats’s poems from their first print versions (with careful attention to the manuscript tradition behind these printings) so that readers can see how his poetry entered into public life. This Norton Critical Edition offers extensive apparatus to enable readers to fully appreciate Keats’s poetry and legacy, including an introduction, a note on the text, headnotes, explanatory annotations, and contextual documents.
“Criticism” collects 12 major commentaries on Keats and his poetry by Paul de Man, Marjorie Levinson, Grant F. Scott, Margaret Homans, Nicholas Roe, Stuart Sperry, Neil Fraistat, Jack Stillinger, James Chandler, Alan Bewell, Andrew Bennett, and Jeffrey N. Cox.
W. W. Norton
This Norton Critical Edition seeks to return John Keats — one of the most beloved poets in the English language — to his cultural moment by tracing his emergence as a public poet. For this reason, Keats’s Poetry and Prose presents the poems Keats published in his lifetime as they entered into print. Readers can trace the poems through Keats’s engaging and insightful letters, reviews, and related materials — chronologically interleaved with the texts, with the unpublished poems arranged by date of composition to provide the context for his public work. Jeffrey Cox has edited Keats’s poems from their first print versions (with careful attention to the manuscript tradition behind these printings) so that readers can see how his poetry entered into public life. This Norton Critical Edition offers extensive apparatus to enable readers to fully appreciate Keats’s poetry and legacy, including an introduction, a note on the text, headnotes, explanatory annotations, and contextual documents.
“Criticism” collects 12 major commentaries on Keats and his poetry by Paul de Man, Marjorie Levinson, Grant F. Scott, Margaret Homans, Nicholas Roe, Stuart Sperry, Neil Fraistat, Jack Stillinger, James Chandler, Alan Bewell, Andrew Bennett, and Jeffrey N. Cox.