Famous Letters of Joh Keats





Adam's dream (Rollins 1: 185, to Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817)
The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream
Intensity (Rollins 1: 192, To George and Tom Keats, 21 Dec. 1817)
the excellence of every Art is its intensity

Negative Capability (Rollins 1: 193, to George and Tom Keats, 21, 27(?) Dec. 1817)

tapestry empyrean (Rollins 1: 231-32, To Reynolds, 19 Feb 1818)
almost any Man may like the Spider spin from his own inwards his own airy Citadel

Poetry--- Jack o lanthern-- (Rollins 1: 242, to Bailey, 13 March 1818)
Poetry itself a mere Jack a lanthern

real and semi-real (Rollins 1: 242-43, to Bailey, 13 March 1818)

Snail-horn perception of Beauty (Rollins 1: 264-65, To Haydon, 8 April, 1818)
The innumerable compositions and decompositions which take place between the intellect and its thousand materials before it

Mawkish Popularity (Rollins 1: 266-67, to Reynolds, 9 April 1818)
I hate a Mawkish Popularity

a large Mansion of Many Apartments (Rollins 1: 280-81, To Reynolds, 3 May 1818)
I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments

the Poetical Character (Rollins 1: 386-87, To Woodhouse, 27 Oct. 1818)
the poetical Character itself, it is not itself--- it has no self

Poetry in a quarrel (Rollins 2: 80-81, to The George Keatses , 19 March 1819)

conversation with Coleridge (Rollins 2: 88, to the George Keatses, 15 April 1819)
I walked with him a[t] his alderman-after dinner pace for near two miles

Vale of Soul-making (Rollins 2: 101-02, to The George Keatses, 21 April 1819)
Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school am Intelligence and make it a soul?

Ode to Psyche (Rollins 2: 105-06, to The George Keatses, 30 April 1819)
the last I have written is the first and the only one with which I have taken even moderate pains

Two little loopholes (Rollins 2: 128, to Reynolds, 11 July 1819)
having two little loopholes, whence I may look out into the stage of the world

that sort of fire (about "Lamia") (Rollins 2: 189, to George Keats, 18 Sep. 1819)

Autumn described (Rollins 2: 167, to Reynolds, 21 Sep. 1819)
How beautiful the season is now

My book is coming out with very low hopes (Rollins 2: 298, to Brown, 21 June 1820)