THE ODES OF KEATS and their earliest known manuscripts
by GITTINGS, ROBERT
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good copy.
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Lucca, Italy
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1970. This handsome volume presents the 5 great ODES of KEATS which are probabIy his best-known work. The 14 original manuscripts are reproduced in fascimile, so that one can see how KEATS first conceived and then improved these great poems. On facing pages they are set out typographically for ease of reference. Introduced with notes by Robert Gittings. Contents: 1). How the ODES were written: April to September 1819. 2). The texts in the 1820 edition: a). Ode to a Nightingale. b). Ode on a Grecian Urn. c). Ode to Psyche. d). To Autumn. e). Ode on Melancholy. 3). The earliest known manuscripts. 4). Notes on the ODES and their manuscripts. 79 pag.. First Edition. Cloth with fine dustjacket. Good copy.. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- Festina Lente (IT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006691
- Title
- THE ODES OF KEATS and their earliest known manuscripts
- Author
- GITTINGS, ROBERT
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good copy.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 4to
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