Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends (Classic Reprint)

Keats to his family and friends. He is one of those poets whose genius makes itself felt in prose-writing almost as decisively as in verse, and at their best these letters are among the most beautiful in our language. Portions of them lent an especial charm to a book charming at any rate the biography of the poet first published more than forty years ago by Lord Houghton. But the correspondence as given by Lord Houghton is neither accurate nor complete. He had in few cases the originals before him, but made use of copies, some of them quite fragmentary, especially those supplied him from A merica; and moreover, working while many of the poets friends were still alive, he thought it right to exercise a degree of editorial freedom for which there would now be neither occasion nor excuse. While I was engaged in preparing the life of Keats for Mr. Morley sseries some years since, the following materials for an improved edition of his letters came into my hands :(1) The copies made by Richard Woodhouse, a few years after Keats sdeath, of the poets correspondence with his principal friends, viz. the publishers, Messrs.
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