Author:John Keats

John Keats
(1795–1821)

John Keats

Works

• The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884) (transcription project)
• The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats (1899) (transcription project)
• Keats; poems published in 1820 (1909) (transcription project)

Poems

Early poems (1814 to 1818)

• Imitation of Spenser (1814)
• On Death (1814)
• To Chatterton
• To Byron (1814)
• Woman! When I Behold thee Flippant, Vain
• To Some Ladies (1815)
• On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies (1815)
• Written on the Day that Mr Leigh Hunt left Prison (1815)
• To Hope (1815)
• Ode to Apollo (1815)
• Hymn to Apollo
• To a Young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown
• Sonnet: 'How many bards gild the lapses of time' (1815)

1814

• As from the darkening gloom a silver dove
• Fill for me a brimming bowl
• On Peace
• Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay

1815

• Lines Written on 29 May The Anniversary of the Restoration of Charles the 2nd
• To Emma
• To George Felton Mathew

1816

• Addressed to Haydon (I)
• Addressed to Haydon (II)
• Calidore. A Fragment
• Give Me Women, Wine and Snuff
• To ——, sonnet (Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs)
• Hadst thou liv’d in days of old
• Happy is England! I could be content
• I am as brisk
• I stood tip-toe upon a little hill
• Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there
• O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell
• O! how I love, on a fair summer's eve
• On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
• On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour
• On the Grasshopper and Cricket
• Sleep and Poetry
• Specimen of an Induction to a Poem
• To a Friend who Sent me some Roses
• To Charles Cowden Clarke
• To G(eorgiana) A(ugusta) W(ylie)
• To Kosciusko
• To my Brother George (I)
• To my Brother George (II)
• To my Brothers
• To one who has been long in city pent
• Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition

1818

• Ode to May. Fragment
• Hither, hither, love -
• Hyperion. A Fragment
• Isabella. or, The Pot of Basil
• Meg Merrilies
• When I have fears that I may cease to be (1818)
• You say you love; but with a voice

1819

• Bright star! would I were as steadfast as thou art
• La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
• Lamia
• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Ode on Indolence
• Ode on Melancholy
• Ode to a Nightingale
• Ode to Psyche
• To Autumn
• The Eve of St. Agnes
• The Eve of St. Mark
• The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream

Undated

• Acrostic
• A Dream, after reading Dante's Episode of Paola and Francesca
• After dark vapours have oppressed our plains
• Ah! ken ye what I met the day
• All gentle folks who owe a grudge
• And what is love? It is a doll dressed up
• Apollo to the Graces
• A Song About Myself
• Bards of Passion and of Mirth
• "Blue Eyes" in Littell's Living Age, 130 (1675); or, 'Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven, the domain'
• The Cap and Bells; or, The Jealousies
• Character of Charles Brown
• The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone
• Endymion. A Poetic Romance
• Faery Songs
• Fancy
• For there's Bishop's Teign
• Fragment of "The Castle Builder"
• Extracts from an Opera (1818)
• Gif ye wol stonden hardie wight
• God of the meridian (1818)
• Hence burgundy, claret, and port (1818)
• The House of Mourning written by Mr. Scott
• The Human Seasons
• I cry your mercy, pity, love - ay, love
• If by dull rhymes our English must be chained
• In after-time, a sage of mickle lore
• Stanzas: In drear-nighted December (1817)
• Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (1818)
• Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair (1818)
• Lines Rhymed in a Letter Received (by J.H. Reynolds) From Oxford
• Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns's Country
• Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
• Ode
• O blush not so! O blush not so (1818)
• Of late two dainties were before me placed
• On a Leander Gem which Miss Reynolds, my Kind Friend, Gave Me
• On Fame
• On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt
• On Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair. Ode
• On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (1817)
• On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again (1818)
• On the Sea
• On The Story of Rimini
• On Visiting Staffa
• On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
• O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind
• Over the hill and over the dale
• Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes
• Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud
• Robin Hood. To a Friend
• Song of Four Faeries
• Sonnet to A(ubrey) G(eorge) S(pencer)
• Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine
• Stanzas
• Stanzas on some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness
• Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes
• Think not of it, sweet one, so -
• This living hand, now warm and capable
• This mortal body of a thousand days
• Three Undated Fragments
• Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb (1818)
• 'Tis "the witching time of night"
• To —— (What can I do to drive away)
• To Ailsa Rock
• To B.R. Haydon, with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles
• To Fanny
• To Homer
• To J(ames) R(ice)
• To J.H. Reynolds, Esq.
• To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
• To (Mary Frogley)
• To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat (1818)
• To the Ladies who Saw Me Crowned
• To the Nile
• To Sleep
• Translated from Ronsard
• Two or three posies
• Upon my life, Sir Nevis, I am piqued
• Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow (1818)
• What can I do to drive away
• When they were come unto the Faery's Court
• Where be ye going, you Devon maid?
• Where's the Poet? Show him, show him
• Why did I laugh tonight?
• Written on A Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's Tale of The Floure and the Leafe

Songs

• Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush my dear!
• I had a dove and the sweet dove died
• Spirit here that reignest
• Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay (1814)

Plays

• King Stephen. A Fragment of a Tragedy
• Otho the Great. A Tragedy in Five Acts

Letters

• Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne &c. (1878) (external scan)

1817

• To John Hamilton Reynolds (March 17th, 1817)
• To John Hamilton Reynolds (April 18th, 1817)
• To Benjamin Robert Haydon (May 10th, 1817)
• To Leigh Hunt (May 10th, 1817)
• To Fanny Keats (September 10th, 1817)
• To Jane Reynolds (September 14th, 1817)
• To Jane Reynolds (September 1817)
• To Benjamin Bailey (October 10th, 1817)
• To Benjamin Bailey (November 22nd, 1817)
• To George and Thomas Keats (December 28th, 1817)

1818

• To Benjamin Bailey (January 23rd, 1818)
• To George and Thomas Keats (February 14th, 1818)
• To John Hamilton Reynolds (February 19th, 1818)
• To John Taylor (February 27th, 1818)
• To John Hamilton Reynolds (March 13th, 1818)
• To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3rd, 1818)
• To John Taylor (July 3rd, 1818)
• To George and Georgiana Keats (October 25th, 1818)
• To Richard Woodhouse (October 27th, 1818)
• To John Hamilton Reynolds (September 22nd, 1818)

1819

• To George and Georgiana Keats (February 14th, 1819)
• To Fanny Brawne (July 3rd, 1819)
• To Fanny Brawne (July 8th, 1819) (external scan)
• To Fanny Brawne (July 25th, 1819)
• To Fanny Keats (December 20th, 1819)

1820

• To Fanny Brawne (February 1820)
• To Fanny Brawne (March 1820)
• To Percy B. Shelley (August 16th, 1820)

Other

• Keats's Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost
• Keats on Kean's Shakespearean Acting (1817)

Works about Keats

Encyclopaedia articles

• "Keats, John," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Keats, John," by Algernon Charles Swinburne in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 14) (1882)
• "Keats, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Keats, John," by Cross, Wilbur Lucius in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Keats, John," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Keats, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Keats, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Keats, John," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Keats, John," by William P. Trent in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Keats, John," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Other articles

• "The Poet Keats" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (5); author not attributed
• "Keats", in Miscellanies (1886), by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "On the Promise of Keats", by George Edward Woodberry from Studies in letters and life (1890)

Poems

• "John Keats", a poem by George Gordon Byron
• "Keats", a poem by Florence Earle Coates
• "Adonaïs" (1821), by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• "Keats", by Edmund Clarence Stedman from Genius, and other essays (1911)
• "For the Anniversary of John Keats' Death", by Sara Teasdale (23 February 1821)