Wesleyan Place, Kentish Town

June 11 1820.

My dear Taylor--In reading over the proof of St. Agnes's Eve since I left Fleet Street, I was struck with what appears to me an alteration in the seventh stanza very much for the worse. The passage I mean stands thus--

her maiden eyes incline Still on the floor, while many a sweeping train Pass by.

'Twas originally written--

her maiden eyes divine Fix'd on the floor, saw many a sweeping train Pass by.

My meaning is quite destroyed in the alteration. I do not use train for concourse of passers by, but for skirts sweeping along the floor.

In the first stanza my copy reads, second line--

bitter chill it was,

to avoid the echo cold in the second line.

Ever yours sincerely

JOHN KEATS.