John Keats Manuscripts and Letters from the Romantic Period

A collection of manuscripts and letters by the English Romantic poet John Keats, curated by Jullianne Ballou and last updated in March 2024. The collection includes fragments of the poems 'Isabella' and 'Lamia,' a manuscript of the verse tragedy 'Otho the Great,' and two letters written to his sister-in-law and to John Hamilton Reynolds.

Use Cases

• Conduct textual analysis of poetic drafts based on the manuscript fragments of 'Isabella' and 'Lamia.'
• Study authorial revisions and creative process based on the manuscript of the verse tragedy 'Otho the Great.'
• Analyze personal correspondence and social networks based on the two included letters.
• Train named entity recognition models on historical literary documents based on the named recipients in the letters.

Strengths

• Includes specific, named literary works: fragments of 'Isabella' and 'Lamia' and the manuscript for 'Otho the Great.'
• Contains primary source materials: two personal letters written by John Keats.
• Metadata indicates a recent update on 2024-03 18.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative tasks.
• The collection's completeness relative to Keats's total oeuvre is not described.

Provenance

Source

Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Curated collection of manuscripts and letters.

Time Range

Early 19th century (Romantic period).

Freshness

Last updated 2024-03-18 06:05:01; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England