Daily Archives: July 20, 2015

REJECTED DEDICATION and PREFACE

John Keats original preface and dedication met with strong objections from J. H. Reynolds, and his publisher, Taylor and Hessey.
The original dedication read: “with every feeling of pride and regret
and with a bowed mind, to the memory of the most English of poets
except Shakespeare, Thomas Chatterton.” 19 of March 1818.