Welcome to the "Curating Keats" Omeka page, where you will find myriad editions of Keats's famous poem, "La Belle Dame sans Merci." The collection functions as a curated digital archive that enables students and scholars alike to access, compare, and analyze manuscript versions of the poem and the editorial choices made by historical and contemporary editors of Keats's popular work. It also provides the original 1819 version of the poem that Keats wrote in a letter to George and Georgiana Keats. The collection's compiler was particularly interested in the proliferation of quotation marks in manuscript and edited versions of a poem that, in "draft" form, was free of such typographical machinery. Quotation marks fundamentally alter the poem's meaning, and the decisions that editors make as to what requires--and what does not require--quotation marks deeply influence how readers approach Keats's poem.
For an explanation of this site's value as a pedagogical tool, please visit: http://www.nassrgrads.com/in-language-strange-using-omeka-to-bring-digital-archives-to-the-classroom/
For the site's co-authored article on Romantic quotation in Keats's poetry, please visit: goo.gl/7QsH8P
