Note 9 — INTRODUCTION.
Reading edition
This little book, now in my collection, is of great interest. It is marked throughout for Miss Brawne’s use,—according to Keats’s fashion of “marking the most beautiful passages” in his books for her. At one end is written the sonnet referred to in the text, apparently composed by Keats with the book before him, as there are two “false starts,” as well as erasures; and at the other end, in the handwriting of Miss Brawne, is copied Keats’s last sonnet,
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art.
The Spenser similarly marked, the subject of Letter XXXIV, is missing.