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The Birth and Death of John Keats: A Reply to Mr. Pershing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

H. E. Briggs*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota

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Comment and Criticism
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1941

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References

Note 1 in page 592 “John Keats: When Was He Bom and When Did He Die?” PMLA, lv, 3 (September, 1940), 802–814.

Note 2 in page 592 P. 804.

Note 3 in page 592 P. 809, ff.

Note 4 in page 593 Idem, p. 804.

Note 5 in page 593 See Amy Lowell, John Keats (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1925) i, 10 ff. See also C. L. Finney The Evolution of Keats's Poetry (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936) i, 11–13.

Note 6 in page 593 The Poetical Works of John Keats (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939), p. lxxiv.

Note 7 in page 594 Garrod, for instance, ignores the fact that Keats himself believed his birthday to be in October (see his journal letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 1818). But this, of course, tells us only what Keats himself had been told.

Note 8 in page 594 Pershing, op. cit., p. 809.

Note 9 in page 594 P. 811.

Note 10 in page 594 P. 812.

Note 11 in page 594 Idem, p. 809 [See the facsimile in the Bulletin, Rome, i, opposite p. 42.].

Note 12 in page 594 Idem, p. 809.

Note 13 in page 595 Bulletin. Rome, i, n. p. 43 and p. 44.

Note 14 in page 595 William Sharp, Life and Letters of Joseph Severn (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), pp. 93–94.

Note 15 in page 595 Fred Edgcumbe, ed., Letters of Fanny Brawne to Fanny Keats (New York: Oxford University Press, 1937), p. 38.

Note 16 in page 596 Pershing, op. cit., p. 808.

Note 17 in page 596 P. 808.

Note 18 in page 596 Perhaps, in the interests of accuracy, I should correct two typographical errors in Mr. Pershing's article. His note #4, p. 803, dates Brown's Life of Keats 1837 instead of 1937 and fails to mention the editors, Bodurtha and Pope. This matter is worthy of notice because it might easily be supposed by the unwary that Brown's Life really was published so early, before the actually first Life by Milnes, later Lord Houghton, in 1848. Also, Mr. Pershing's note #14, p. 807, refers to “Rieves and Turned,” publishers. These names should be “Reeves” and “Turner.”