A POETIC ROMANCE By JOHN KEATS Type-facsimile of the First Edition and Notes BY H. CLEMENT NOTCUTT Professor of English in the University of Stellenbosch OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1927 NOTE [HE text of Endymion contained in this volume is a type-facsimile of the first edition, issued in 1818. The paper, the type, and the covers are a close reproduction of the original, which is now very scarce. It will be noticed that the numbering of the lines differs slightly from that of most modern editions. This is due to the fact that where a verse paragraph ends in a broken line (as at 1. 710 of Book I) the part of the line that ends the paragraph, and the other part that begins the following paragraph have been counted as two lines; whereas the usual practice now is to count them as one. The difference amounts to one line in the first book, three in the second, eleven in the third, and nine in the fourth. In some copies of the original edition only one erratum is recorded-his for her in III. 71-but before the volume was issued further errors were noticed, so that in other copies five are mentioned. The present reprint follows the text of the first edition without alteration. Keats wrote the first book of the poem on sheets of quarto foolscap paper, and afterwards revised it thoroughly before sending it to the printer. He |