The Annotated Edition
Robertson by John Keats
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.
- Poet
- John Keats
- Core theme
- Art
§01Quick summary
What this poem is about
§02Themes
Recurring themes
§03Line by line
Stanza by stanza, with notes
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
§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
§07FAQ
Questions readers ask
Adjacent texts in the archive
Read next
- In the same key
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
Read & analyze - In the same key
To Autumn
John Keats
Read & analyze - In the same key
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Read & analyze - In the same key
Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth
Read & analyze - In the same key
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
Read & analyze - In the same key
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
John Keats
Read & analyze