Keats—Poetry and Prose. With Essays by Leigh Hunt and Others.
(Clarendon Press. 3s. 6d. net.)—For school purposes nothing could be better than the Clarendon Series of English Literature, but the edition is also worthy the attention of the ordinary reader. The present volume contains practically all of Keats' best verse and a number of his letters, besides extracts from the reviews by Lamb and Jeffrey, and criticisms by Leigh Hunt, Landor, Shelley, Masson, Swinburne and Mr. Robert Bridges. The plan is excellent. Each of the essays explains and corrects the others, and at the same time throws considerable light on the poems themselves. For instance, Swinburne's rapturous eulogy is tempered by the proximity of the Edinburgh review, and the reader, however little of a Keatsian he is, naturally turns to the poems in question and settles the matter for himself. Mr. Henry Ellerahaw has written a temperate introduction, and supplies a number of concise Motes on the contents of the book.
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