Cover of a 1988 edition of Keats’s poetry in Russian.
The UNC John Keats Collection
J. R. MacGillivray’s bibliography, Keats: A Bibliography and Reference Guide with an Essay on Keats’ Reputation. University of Toronto Department of English Studies and Texts, No. 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1949), and variants thereof, produce a core around which the UNC John Keats collection is formed. The collection includes approximately 300 issues of Keats’s poetic works from his 1817 Poems, to the series volumes of the Victorian age, to private press or limited edition volumes, to paperbacks of the twenty-first century. There are eighty-four issues of Keats’s works, letters, and anthologies translated into French, German, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish; forty-eight nineteenth- and twentieth-century anthologies; as well as a number of items less easy to characterize. These volumes allow the scholar to reconstruct how the works of Keats were presented by publishers and received by readers in a particular time and place and to move beyond simply considering Keats as a safely circumscribed Romantic poet, of note today for the accessibility of his work and the manner of his dying.
