ABSTRACT
Richard Woodhouse (1788–1834), a lawyer eight years older than Keats, was the admirer who did more than anyone to collect and preserve Keats's manuscripts. John Taylor (1781–1864), a generous friend, with his partner James Hessey published Keats's second and third volumes. He was very devout: Shelley's friend Hogg dismissed him characteristically as ‘a vile Methodist’.
