Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: promise from Severn and I must put you in mind that on last All hallowmas' day you gave me your word that you would spend this Evening with me?so no putting off. I have done little to Endymion latelyl?I hope to finish it in one more attack. I believe you I went to Richards's?it was so whoreson a Night that I stopped there all the next day. His Eemembrances to you.' (Ext. from the common place Book of my Mind? Mem.?Wednesday?Hampstead?call in Warner Street ?a sketch of Mr. Hunt.)?I will ever consider you my sincere and affectionate friend?you will not doubt that I am yours. God bless you? John Keats. V.?TO JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS. [London,] Sunday Evening [March 2, 1817 T].1 My dear Eeynolds?Your kindness affects me so sensibly that I can merely put down a few mono-sentences. Your Criticism only makes me extremely anxious that I should not deceive you. It's the finest thing by God as Hazlitt would say. However I hope I may not deceive you. There are some acquaintances of mine who will scratch their Beards and although I have, I hope, some Charity, I wish their Nails may be long. I will be ready at the time you mention in all Happiness. There is a report that a young Lady of 16 has written the new Tragedy, God bless her?I will know her by Hook or by Crook in less than a week. My Brothers' and my Remembrances to your kind Sisters. Yours most sincerely John Keats. 1 Not the long poem published under that title in 1818, but the earlier attempt beginning, " I stood tiptoe upon a little hill," which was printed as a fragment in the Poems of 1817. 2 This letter, which ia marked by Woodhouse in his copy "no date, sent by hand," I take to be an answer to the commendatory sonnet addressed by Eeynolds to Keats on February 27, 1817: see Keats (Men of Letters Series), ...