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Notes
Claude Lee Finney, The Evolution of Keats's Poetry, 2 vols. (1936; rpt. 1963), II, 448, 454-469.
Dorothy Hewlett, A Life of John Keats (1950), pp. 273-274; Walter Jackson Bate, John Keats (1966), pp. 562-564, 573-574 and passim; Aileen Ward, John Keats: The Making of a Poet (1963), pp. 433-435 and passim; Douglas Bush, John Keats: His Life and Writings (1966), pp. 163-173 and passim; and Robert Gittings, John Keats (1968), pp. 341-346 and passim.
H. W. Garrod, ed., The Poetical Works of John Keats (1939), lxx-lxxi, describes it, lists the poems transcribed, and records the variants in the volume. An extensive account is provided by Paul Kaufman, "The Reynolds-Hood Commonplace Book: A Fresh Appraisal," Keats-Shelley Journal, 10 (1961), 43-52.
Some are dated in the transcript; Kaufman provides an account, pp. 45-46. Others have been dated to everyone's satisfaction by letters, autographs, or other transcripts.
Lowell, II, 531, dated it 1816. Ward, p. 424, dated it in the summer of 1817. Gittings, p. 215, dated it about 16 May 1817. Stillinger, p. 141, dated it "perhaps 1817 or 1818."
That is, except possibly for Extracts from an Opera, which is given only the general date 1818 in transcripts and in Milnes' first edition of 1848.
Jack Stillinger identifies the hand as Charlotte's in The Texts of Keats's Poems (1974), p. 48. Hereafter cited as Stillinger.
Hyder E. Rollins, ed., The Letters of John Keats, 1814-1821, 2 vols. (1958), I, 407. Hereafter cited parenthetically in the text by volume and page numbers.
"Another Version of Keats' Hyperion," Biographical and Historical Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, vol. III (1856-57).
There remains some question as to what should be regarded as the date of publication. Copies were issued about 27 April, but it was not officially registered for publication until 19 May (I, 41).
Garrod notes "Heading Act II, Scene I om." and records no variants for the numbers of the other acts and scenes.
For the W2 Hyperion and The Fall, I am grateful for the photocopy from Harvard supplied by Miss Rae Ann Nager. For the holograph Hyperion, I have used the photographs in De Selincourt, Hyperion: A Facsimile, cited above.
Gittings, The Odes of Keats, pp. 41-43. I believe that Stillinger, p. 246, is mistaken when he argues that George copied Brown's transcript, his only evidence being that "George left some extra space before 'e'er' in 4 where Brown's transcript, after the erasure of the initial letter in 'ne'er,' also has extra space." If the extra space is meaningful at all, it would derive just as probably from Keats's erasure in the lost holograph.
Garrod records no variant. Because Stillinger reveals so many errors in Garrod, I secured confirmation from the Pierpont Morgan Library, for which I wish to thank Mr. Herbert Cahoon, Curator of Autograph MSS. It is spelled "forlorn".
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