B. Forman (ed.), The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats, 4 vols., 1883. Supplemented by Poetry and Prose of John Keats, 1890; rev. edn M. B. Forman, 8 vols., 1938–9 (Hampstead Edition).

E. De Selincourt (ed.), The Poems of John Keats, Methuen, 1905; 5th rev. edn, 1926.

H. W. Garrod (ed.), The Poetical Works of John Keats, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939; rev. edn, 1958. Substantial corrections are made to Garrod’s edition by Jack Stillinger’s important book on the text.

H. W. Garrod (ed.), The Poetical Works of John Keats, Oxford Standard Authors series, 1956. Text differs in minor, but significant, ways from preceding.

Douglas Bush (ed.), Selected Poems and Letters, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1959.

Miriam Allott (ed.), The Poems of John Keats, Longman, 1970 (2nd impression, 1972).

Robert Gittings (ed.), The Odes of Keats and their Earliest Known Manuscripts, Heinemann, 1970. Facsimiles, transcriptions, and useful notes. Excludes Ode on Indolence.

Jack Stillinger (ed.), The Poems of John Keats, Harvard University Press, 1978.

WORKS OF REFERENCE

D. L. Baldwin et al., A Concordance of the Poems of John Keats, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917 (reprinted 1963).

J. R. MacGillivray, Keats: A Bibliography and Reference Guide, University of Toronto Press, 1949.

Keats-Shelley Journal, 1952– . Has an annual bibliography. Those for 1952–62 reprinted as Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt and their Circles: A Bibliography, 1964.

Keats–Shelley Memorial Bulletin.

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM

This is a selective list, mainly of work published in the twentieth century. For Keats’s contemporary and nineteenth-century reputation, G. M. Matthews’s John Keats: The Critical Heritage, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971, should be consulted: Matthews reprints the early reviews, otherwise hard to obtain, substantial extracts from later essays, and has a helpful introduction.

John Barnard, John Keats, Cambridge University Press, 1987.

—, ‘First Fruits or First Blights’: A New Account of the Publishing History of Keats’s Poems (1817), Romanticism, 12 (2006), pp. 71–101.

W.J. Bate, John Keats, Harvard University Press, 1963.

John Bayley, ‘Keats and Reality’, Proceedings of the British Academy, XLVIII (1962), pp. 91–126.

Andrew Bennett, Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company, Gollancz, 1961.

Harold Bloom, ‘Keats and the Embarrassments of Poetic Tradition’ in From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to F. A.