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Acquisitions (63): Penguin English Poets


Bronwyn Lloyd: Penguin English Poets (2022)

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Christopher Ricks


John Keats: The Complete Poems (2006)
[Finally Books: Hospice Bookshop, Birkenhead - 6/1/2022]:


John Keats: The Complete Poems (2006)


John Keats. The Complete Poems. Ed. John Barnard. 1973. Third Edition. Penguin Classics. 1988. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.


John Keats: The Complete Poems (1973)


Penguin English Poets


I did think twice before adding yet another copy of Keats's Complete Poems to my collection. But the contrast between this third, revised edition, and the second edition I also own, and the first edition I used to own (before discarding it as redundant in one of my periodic book purges) intrigued me greatly.


Bronwyn Lloyd: Penguin English Poets (2022)


The first edition appeared early in the history of the Penguin English Poets: an attempt at a uniform series of major English-language poets published under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Ricks in the 1970s and early 1980s.

The third edition of Barnard's Keats appeared in 1988, after the original white-covered series had been entirely subsumed into the Penguin Classics, with their uniform black bindings. In a sense, then, the fortunes of Keats can be seen as paradigmatic of the progress of the enterprise as a whole.




There was another change around the end of the 1970s, when the white-covered poets suddenly grew in size by a centimetre or so. Any books issued after that (such as the two-volume Robert Browning Poems, John Skelton, Jonathan Swift & Tennyson's Idylls of the King) came out in the new, larger format, and so did all reissues of previously published texts. This may sound like a trivial point, but it does detract slightly from the aesthetics of one's set when they're all lined up for display!




In any case, details like these don't seem (so far) to have been covered by sites such as The Penguin Checklist Project, so I thought I might put on record some information from my own collection, as a supplement to my earlier posts on other significant Penguin poetry projects, such as the Penguin Modern Poets (1962-83), Penguin Modern European Poets (1958-84), and Penguin Poets in Translation (1996-2005):


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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1972)

Penguin English Poets
General Editor: Christopher Ricks
[Alphabetical Listings (1971-1983)]:

Books I own are marked in bold:

  1. Blake, William. The Complete Poems. Ed. Alicia Ostriker. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
  2. Browning, Robert. The Poems. Ed. John Pettigrew & Thomas J. Collins. Penguin English Poets. 2 vols. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
  3. Browning, Robert. The Ring and The Book. Ed. Richard D. Altick. 1971. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
  4. Byron, Lord. Don Juan. Ed. T. G. Steffan, E. Steffan, & W. W. Pratt. 1973. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
  5. Donne, John. The Complete English Poems. Ed. A. J. Smith. 1971. Rev. ed. 1973. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
  6. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ed. J. A. Burrow. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
  7. Johnson, Samuel. The Complete English Poems. Ed. J. D. Fleeman. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
  8. Jonson, Ben. The Complete Poems. Ed. George Parfitt. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
  9. Keats, John. The Complete Poems. Ed. John Barnard. Penguin Classics. 1973. Second Edition. 1977. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
  10. Marlowe, Christopher. The Complete Poems and Translations. Ed. Stephen Orgel. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
  11. Marvell, Andrew. The Complete Poems. Ed. Elizabeth Story Donno. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
  12. Skelton, John. The Complete English Poems. Ed. John Scattergood. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
  13. Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Ed. Thomas P. Roche, Jr. & C. Patrick O’Donnell, Jr. Penguin English Poets. 1978. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.
  14. Swift, Jonathan. The Complete Poems. Ed. Pat Rogers. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
  15. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. The Idylls of the King. Ed. J. M. Gray. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
  16. Vaughan, Henry. The Complete Poems. Ed. Alan Rudrum. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
  17. Whitman, Walt. The Complete Poems. Ed. Francis Murphy. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin Education, 1975.
  18. Wordsworth, William. The Poems. Ed. John O. Hayden. Penguin English Poets. 2 vols. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
  19. Wordsworth, William. The Prelude: A Parallel Text. Ed. J. C. Maxwell. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
  20. Wyatt, Sir Thomas. The Complete Poems. Ed. R. A. Rebholz. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.

Andrew Marvell: The Complete Poems (1972)



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Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book (1971)

Penguin English Poets
General Editor: Christopher Ricks
[Chronological Listings (1971-1983)]:

  1. 1971 - Robert Browning. The Ring and The Book. Ed. Richard D. Altick. 1971. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
  2. 1971 - John Donne. The Complete English Poems. Ed. A. J. Smith. 1971. Rev. ed. 1973. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
  3. 1971 - Samuel Johnson. The Complete English Poems. Ed. J. D. Fleeman. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
  4. 1971 - Christopher Marlowe. The Complete Poems and Translations. Ed. Stephen Orgel. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
  5. 1971 - William Wordsworth. The Prelude: A Parallel Text. Ed. J. C. Maxwell. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
  6. 1972 - The Gawain Poet. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ed. J. A. Burrow. Penguin English Poets. General Ed. Christopher Ricks. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
  7. 1972 - Andrew Marvell. The Complete Poems. Ed. Elizabeth Story Donno. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
  8. 1973 - Lord Byron. Don Juan. Ed. T. G. Steffan, E. Steffan, & W. W. Pratt. 1973. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
  9. 1973 - John Keats. The Complete Poems. Ed. John Barnard. Penguin Classics. 1973. Second Edition. 1977. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
  10. 1975 - Ben Jonson. The Complete Poems. Ed. George Parfitt. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
  11. 1975 - Walt Whitman. The Complete Poems. Ed. Francis Murphy. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin Education, 1975.
  12. 1976 - Henry Vaughan. The Complete Poems. Ed. Alan Rudrum. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
  13. 1977 - William Blake. The Complete Poems. Ed. Alicia Ostriker. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
  14. 1977 - William Wordsworth. The Poems. Ed. John O. Hayden. Penguin English Poets. 2 vols. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
  15. 1978 - Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queene. Ed. Thomas P. Roche, Jr. & C. Patrick O’Donnell, Jr. Penguin English Poets. 1978. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.
  16. 1978 - Sir Thomas Wyatt. The Complete Poems. Ed. R. A. Rebholz. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
  17. 1981 - Robert Browning. The Poems. Ed. John Pettigrew & Thomas J. Collins. Penguin English Poets. 2 vols. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
  18. 1983 - John Skelton. The Complete English Poems. Ed. John Scattergood. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
  19. 1983 - Jonathan Swift. The Complete Poems. Ed. Pat Rogers. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
  20. 1983 - Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The Idylls of the King. Ed. J. M. Gray. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.

Walt Whitman: The Complete Poems (1986)



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Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems (1978)

Penguin Classics: Penguin English Poets
General Editor: Christopher Ricks
[Alphabetical Listings (1985- )]:

Christopher Ricks appears to have kept up his connection with the series in its new form, overseeing a number of new editions which have appeared under the black-covered Penguin Classics imprint.

At a certain point in the early 2000s, the emphasis appears to have shifted from collected to selected editions. In some cases the same editor was responsible for both a 'complete' and 'selected' volume of the same author's work. In others a completely new edition was commissioned.

I've included below a number of such books which I either own or have been able to find details about online. I'll attempt to add to this over time, since I suspect that there are a great many which I haven't yet come across.

I should also add, parenthetically, that the rather anomalous inclusion of an American, Walt Whitman, among the 'Penguin English Poets' (though I suppose it would be easy enough to justify, given his immense influence on English-language poetry around the world), can be matched among these later books by an edition of the early work of Robert Frost.

    William Barnes: Selected Poems (1994)

  1. William Barnes. Selected Poems. Ed. Andrew Motion (1994)

    2. William Blake: Selected Poems (2006)


  2. William Blake. Selected Poems. Ed. G. E. Bentley (2006)

    3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems (1997)


  3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Complete Poems. Ed. William Keech (1997)

    4. John Clare: Selected Poems (1990)


  4. John Clare. Selected Poems. Ed. Geoffrey Summerfield (1990)

    5. John Donne: Selected Poems (2006)


  5. John Donne. Selected Poems. Ed. Ilona Bell (2006)

    6. John Donne: Collected Poetry (2013)


  6. John Donne. Collected Poetry. Ed. Ilona Bell (2013)

    7. Robert Frost: Early Poems (1998)


  7. Robert Frost. Early Poems. Ed. Robert Faggen (1998)

    8. Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (2011)


  8. Thomas Hardy. Selected Poems. Ed. Robert Mezey (2011)

    9. George Herbert: The Complete English Poems (2004)


  9. George Herbert. The Complete English Poems. Ed. John Tobin (2004)

    10. George Herbert: The Complete Poetry (2015)


  10. George Herbert. The Complete Poetry. Ed. John Drury. Trans. Victoria Moul (2015)

    11. John Keats: Selected Poems (2000)


  11. John Keats. Selected Poems. Ed. John Barnard (2000)

    12. John Milton: Paradise Lost (1989)


  12. John Milton. Paradise Lost. Ed. Christopher Ricks (1989)

    13. John Milton: The Complete Poems (1998)


  13. John Milton. The Complete Poems. Ed. John Leonard (1998)

    14. John Milton: Selected Poems (2008)


  14. John Milton. Selected Poems. Ed. John Leonard (2008)

    15. Rochester: The Complete Works (1994)


  15. Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of. The Complete Works. Ed. Frank H. Ellis (1994)

    16. Rochester: Selected Works (2004)


  16. Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of. Selected Works. Ed. Frank H. Ellis (2004)

    17. Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems (2001)


  17. Christina Rosetti. The Complete Poems. Ed. Ed. R. W. Crump & Betty S. Flowers (2001)

    18. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose (2016)


  18. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Selected Poems and Prose. Ed. Jack Donovan & Cian Duffy (2016)

    19. Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (1990)


  19. Christopher Smart. Selected Poems. Ed. K. Williamson & M. Walsh (1990)

    20. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems (2008)


  20. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Selected Poems. Ed. Christopher Ricks. 1992. Rev. ed. (2008)

    21. William Wordsworth: The Prelude: The Four Texts (1995)


  21. William Wordsworth. The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850). Ed. Jonathan Wordsworth (1995)

    22. William Wordsworth: Selected Poems (2004)


  22. William Wordsworth. Selected Poems. Ed. Stephen Gill (2004)

    23. Wordsworth & Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads (2006)


  23. William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. Ed. Michael Schmidt (2006)


John Keegan, ed.: The Penguin Book of English Verse (2005)



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Acquisitions (61): John Keats


The Poetical Works of John Keats. With a Memoir by Lord Houghton [Richard Monckton Milnes]. Illustrated by 120 Designs, Original and from the Antique, Drawn on Wood by George Scharf, Jun. 1st ed. 1854. London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1866.


George Scharf: Hyperion (1854)


The Iconography of John Keats


I found something interesting yesterday, in a little second-hand shop in Orewa, just up the coast from us. Bronwyn and I had gone for a drive to celebrate our fourteenth wedding anniversary (traditionally associated with ivory, but now - in our hopefully less ecologically tone-deaf times - gold).

Somehow - as usual - we ended up hunting through vintage shops, and in one of them I discovered an old copy of Keats with beautiful neo-classical designs by a certain George Scharf. I doubt that this is a particularly valuable book (though if one were to chance on the first edition of 1854 that might be a different story), but when I started to research it a bit, it turned out to be quite fascinating.



For a start, it includes a memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes [aka Lord Houghton], editor of the first substantive edition of Keats's collected works, The Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (2 vols, 1848). He benefitted greatly from the collections put together by Charles Armitage Brown, who passed them on to him before emigrating to New Zealand in 1841.

Brown died a year later. His grave can still be seen on Marsland Hill in New Plymouth, inscribed with his principal claim to fame: 'The friend of Keats.'


Jane Campion, dir. & writ.: Bright Star (2009)
[l-to-r: Ben Whishaw as John Keats / Abbie Cornish as Fanny Brawne


Curiously enough, in Jane Campion's film Bright Star, which focuses principally on Keats's relationship with Fanny Brawne:
Brown (played by actor Paul Schneider) is presented as "the closest the movie comes to a villain, a cynical boor who knocks up his housemaid ... and banishes Fanny so the boys can work on their plays and poems."
- Wikipedia: 'Charles Armitage Brown'

Paul Schneider as Charles Armitage Brown
Bright Star (2009)


Film critic Ty Burr, who made this accusation in the first place, does, however, admit that Campion's 'portrayal of Brown's "love for Keats humanizes him... even if he loves the art more at first."'


Walter William Ouless: Sir George Scharf (1809-1885)


The real value in my Orewa purchase, however, lies in the really quite beautiful set of illustrations it contains by the eventual President of the National Portrait Gallery, Sir George Scharf. At the time he'd just returned from two extensive journeys to Italy and Asia Minor, and was much in demand as an illustrator of books to do with classical art and antiquity.

Here's his version of the medieval imagery of Keats's 'Eve of St Agnes':






George Scharf: Illustrations for 'The Eve of St. Agnes'. Engraved by James Cooper (1854)


And here are some examples of the neo-classical style he is more generally associated with:


George Scharf: Illustration for 'Hyperion' (1854)



George Scharf: Illustration for 'Endymion' (1854)



George Scharf: Illustration for 'Lamia' (1854)


All in all, the precise, clean lines of Scharf's engravings make an agreeable contrast to the otherwise almost complete dependence Keats portraiture owes to the numerous paintings and sketches of his friend and travelling companion Joseph Severn.


Joseph Severn: John Keats (1819)


Well-meant though these undoubtedly were, the cumulative effect of these images has been to portray the down-to-earth young surgeon John Keats as a more ineffectual, ethereal being than he apparently was in reality.


Joseph Severn: John Keats (1821-23)


Scharf's illustrations provide a useful corrective to all that. In fact, until the appearance of Jane Campion's wonderful (and deeply influential) film in 2009, it's probably no exaggeration to describe him as one of the principal influences on Keatsian iconography.


Joseph Severn: Sketch of Keats (28 January 1821)



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William Hilton: John Keats (1822)

John Keats
(1795-1821)

Books I own are marked in bold:

    Poetry:

    John Keats: Poems (1817)


  1. Keats, John. Poems. London: C. & J. Ollier, 1817.

    2. John Keats: Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818)


  2. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818.
    • Endymion: A Poetic Romance. Type-facsimile of the First Edition with Introduction and Notes. 1818. Ed. H. Clement Notcutt. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927.


  3. Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820.
    • Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems. Note on the Text by Michael Schmidt. Poetry First Editions. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.

    4. Lord Houghton, ed.: The Poetical Works of John Keats (1854)


  4. The Poetical Works of John Keats. With a Memoir by Lord Houghton. Illustrated by 120 Designs, Original and from the Antique, Drawn on Wood by George Scharf, Jun. 1854. London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1866.

    5. John Keats: The Poetical Works. Ed. H. Buxton Forman (1908)


  5. The Poetical Works. Ed. H. Buxton Forman. 1908. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1953.

    6. John Keats: The Poems. Ed. Miriam Allott (1970)


  6. The Poems. Ed. Miriam Allott. Longman Annotated English Poets. London: Longman, 1970.

    7. John Keats: The Complete Poems. Ed. John Barnard (1973)


  7. The Complete Poems. Ed. John Barnard. Penguin English Poets. 1973. Second Edition. 1977. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.

    8. Jack Stillinger, ed.: The Poems of John Keats (1978)


  8. Stillinger, Jack, ed. The Poems of John Keats. The Definitive Edition. London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1978.

    9. Letters:

    Richard Monckton Milnes, ed.: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848)


  9. Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats. 2 vols. Ed. Richard Monckton Milnes. 1848. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

    10. Maurice Buxton Forman, ed.: The Letters of John Keats (1935)


  10. The Letters. Ed. Maurice Buxton Forman. 1931. Fourth Edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1952.

    11. Fred Edgcumbe, ed.: Letters of Fanny Brawne to Fanny Keats (1937)


  11. Letters of Fanny Brawne to Fanny Keats [1820-1824]. Ed. Fred Edgcumbe. Foreword by Maurice Buxton Forman. 1937. London: Oxford University Press, 1939.

    12. Hyder Edward Rollins, ed.: The Keats Circle (1948)


  12. The Keats Circle: Letters and Papers, 1816-1878 & More Letters and Poems of the Keats Circle, 1814-1879. 2 vols. Ed. Hyder Edward Rollins. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948.
    • Rollins, Hyder Edward, ed. The Keats Circle: Letters and Papers and More Letters and Poems of the Keats Circle: 1814-1879. 2 vols. 1948. 2nd ed. Preface by W. J. Bate. 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.
      • Vol. 1: 1816-1830
      • Vol. 2: 1832-1878

    13. Hyder Edward Rollins, ed.: The Letters of John Keats (1958)


  13. The Letters of John Keats, 1814–1821. Ed. Hyder Edward Rollins. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.

    14. John Keats: Selected Letters (1974)


  14. Selected Letters. Ed. Robert Pack. A Signet Classic. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: New American Library, 1974.

    15. Secondary:

    Robert Gittings: John Keats: The Living Year (1954)


  15. Gittings, Robert. John Keats: The Living Year, 21 September 1818 to 21 September 1819. 1954. London: Mercury Books, 1962.

    16. Robert Gittings: John Keats (1968)


  16. Gittings, Robert. John Keats. 1968. Pelican Biographies. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.

    17. Andrew Motion: Keats (1997)


  17. Motion, Andrew. Keats. 1997. London: Faber, 1998.

    18. Jane Campion, dir.: Bright Star (2009)


  18. Bright Star, writ. & dir. Jane Campion (based on Andrew Motion’s biography) – with Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish – (UK/Australia/France, 2009).


Benjamin Haydon: Lifemask of Keats (1816)



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