Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and other poems

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Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and other poems

John Keats, 1820

KEATS, John (1795-1821). Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other poems. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820.



The fine Blairhame copy of the first edition of the poet’s third and final book, containing some of his best-known verses. It contains, besides the poems named in the title, works such as his “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and “To Autumn,” that would cement his posthumous reputation as one of the greatest English poets. Published in July 1820, when Keats was seriously ill and soon to depart for Italy, it received warmer reviews than either of his previous publications, including a sympathetic notice from Francis Jeffrey at the Edinburgh Review, who said of his poems: “it is impossible to resist the intoxication of their sweetness, or to shut our hearts to the enchantments they so lavishly present.” Helen Vendler would later write that "The odes of John Keats belong to that group of works in which the English language finds an ultimate embodiment." Grolier English 72, MacGillivray 3, Vendler The Odes of John Keats (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1983).



Twelvemo (173 x 97mm). Half-title, ad leaf, and fly titles preceding each section, but without the publisher’s catalogue present in some copies (repaired tear to first leaf of “Hyperion,” touching two words). 19th-century green straight grain morocco with fillet borders, spine gilt, dentelles, by F. Bedford (upper joint rubbed, two scratches in upper cover). Provenance: Natalie Knowlton Blair, 1887-1951 (morocco Blairhame label; her sale, 3 December 2004, lot 183).

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