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Robertson by John Keats

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This text isn't a poem by John Keats; it's a publisher's imprint — the bibliographic details that appear on the title page or colophon of a book published by Oxford University Press at the Clarendon Press in 1909, almost a century after Keats passed away.

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Robertson

John Keats

Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1909

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Sourced from Project Gutenberg

§01Quick summary

What this poem is about

This text isn't a poem by John Keats; it's a publisher's imprint — the bibliographic details that appear on the title page or colophon of a book published by Oxford University Press at the Clarendon Press in 1909, almost a century after Keats passed away. There's no poem to analyze here, just three lines indicating the place of publication, the press, and the year. To conduct a meaningful analysis, we would need the complete text of a poem.

§02Themes

Recurring themes

§03Line by line

Stanza by stanza, with notes

  1. Oxford / At the Clarendon Press / 1909

    Editor's note

    These three lines represent a publisher's imprint rather than verse. They indicate that the book was printed in Oxford by the Clarendon Press, which is the academic printing division of Oxford University Press, in 1909. There's no poetic content, imagery, or argument to analyze in this context.

§04Tone & mood

How this poem feels

No tone can be identified since there’s no poem included. The text provided is a bibliographic imprint.

§05Symbols & metaphors

Symbols & metaphors

Clarendon Press imprint
Signals a scholarly or authoritative publication — but this is a straightforward fact about publishing, not a poetic symbol.
1909
The year the book was published, about 88 years after Keats died in 1821, relates to its editorial history rather than to any specific poem.
Oxford
The city where the work was published. Oxford does show up in Keats's writings (he visited in 1817), but we can't establish that link here without referencing a specific poem.

§06Historical context

Historical context

John Keats (1795–1821) stood out as a key figure in English Romanticism, celebrated for his odes like "Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn." He passed away from tuberculosis at just 25 years old. The Clarendon Press, which was established in Oxford during the 17th century, became a prominent publisher of scholarly editions of English literature. By 1909, it was releasing authoritative collected works of Romantic poets, including Keats. The text provided here seems to be the imprint page from one of these editions—likely E. de Sélincourt's 1905/1909 collection of Keats's poems—rather than a poem itself. Without the actual text of a poem, there's no room for literary analysis.

§07FAQ

Questions readers ask

There isn't a poem titled 'Robertson' in the recognized works of Keats. This name doesn't show up as a title in any significant scholarly edition of his writings. It might relate to someone mentioned in a letter or a lesser-known piece, but the text provided is just a publisher's imprint, not an actual poem.

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