Front matter (continued 14)
Reading edition
Jennings, Frances (Mrs T. Keats, q.v., later Mrs Rawlings), mother of the Poet, 3
Jennings, John, grandfather of the poet, 3, 5
Will and bequests of, 9, 355 & n.
Jennings, John, of Penryn, 5
Jennings, Mrs John, grandmother of Keats, 9
Character of, 6
Legacy of, to Keats, 354, 355 & n.
Trustees appointed by, for the Keats children, 15-16
Death of, 16 & n. 1.
Jennings, Mrs Midgley John, lawsuit by, as affecting Keats, 354, 365
Johnson, Dr Samuel, 537; Tour of, in the Highlands, 282
on Greek mythology, 220
on Sheridan’s pension, 481
Jones, Mrs, the mysterious, 334
Jonson, Ben, poems of, Influence of on Keats, 206, 225, 396, 479
Life of, Keats on, 356
Metre used by, 389; faults in, 209
Use by, of the Heroic Couplet, 100
Joseph and his Brethren (Wells), enthusiasm for, of Swinburne and Rossetti, 77
‘Judgment of Solomon,’ picture by Haydon, 60
Julian and Maddalo (Shelley), 241
Junius, Taylor an authority on, 133
‘Junkets,’ Keats’s nickname, 83
Kean, Edmund, 245, 263
Departure to America, 370, 372
Dramatic powers of, 442
in Shakespearean parts, Keats’s criticisms on, 242-4
Keast, Thomas, of St Agnes’ parish, Cornwall, 5
Keate, Catherine, 5
Keate, Dr., Headmaster of Eton, 4 n.
Keats, Edward, 3
Keats family of Dorsetshire, 4, 5, 492
Keats family (the poet’s)
Brotherly affection in, 3, 11, 13, 24, 25, 31-2, 133, 135, 145, 262, 271, 323, 324
Keats, Frances Mary (Fanny), sister of the poet (later Llanos, q.v.), 3, 505
Inheritance of, 355 & n., 529
Keats’s affection for, 145
Letters to, from Keats, charm of, 338; on being friends, and on the story of Endymion, 147-9; on dancing, 336-7; on fine weather, 364-5; on going to the Isle of Wight, 357; on going as a Ship’s Doctor, 355; on his health and on Otho the Great, 381; on his idleness, 347; in illness, 456; on keeping well, 487; on the Scotch tour, 290
Marriage of, 535
Verses addressed to, by Keats, 9-10
Visit to, by Keats, 366
Keats, George, brother of the poet, 3, 25, 58, 77, 162; at school, 8
Biographical references to, in order of date
Business life of, 24; Money troubles of, 139-40; and the Publishers of the Poems, 133; at Teignmouth, with Tom, 244; Marriage and Emigration of, 24, 260, 269-72; Business troubles of, 365; Keats’s generosity to, 371; Visit of, to England, and Keats’s further generosity, 382-4; Good news from, 504; Inheritance of, 355 n.; Death of, 531
Brotherly devotion of, to Keats, 11, 24, 25, 82-3, 133; Keats on, 356
Brown’s indignation with, 516, 517, 529; proved unjust, 530
Character of, 11, 382
Letters to, from Keats, and Keats’s Journal letters to him and his wife, 322-3, 327, 337, 339; on becoming a Ship’s surgeon, 355; on being a Poet, and on Endymion as the test of this, 164-5; on his Defenders, 315; on the Hostile Reviews and on his Reading, and Idleness, 340 et sqq.; on his Brotherly love, 322, 323, 324; on Miss Brawne, 336; on Sea passage to London, 295
Value of, 317 et sqq.
Wealth of topics in (1819), 344 et sqq., 37
on his Brother as a boy, 11
on his Grandfather and Mother, 6
on Keats’s temper, 145
Keats, John, the poet
Acquaintance of, with Chaucer, 75 n., and with the Elizabethans (q.v.), 19
Appearance of, at different dates, 6, 12, 24, 25, 35, 79, 80, 143, 287, 296, 328, 346, 347, 459 n., 486
Eyes, 143, 459 n., 466, 511
Height, 31, 79, 80
Portraits of, by
Haydon, 462
Severn, 328, 495, 511, 535
Appreciation by, of Wordsworth’s poems, 125, 145-6
Attitude of, to
Criticism, 311 et sqq., 321
Love, 181, 183, 213, 224, 262, 318-20, 330 et sqq., passim, 393, 549 & n.
Scenery, 153, 274 et sqq.
Scott’s writings, 279
Women, 81, 89-90, 262, 271, 288, 318-20
Biographical projects of friends, 529-31
Biographies, appreciation and Collections of his works, 531 et sqq.
Memoir of, by Monckton Milnes, 520
Biographical references in order of date
1795-1817
Parentage, birth and family, 2, 3 et sqq.; school days, 7 et sqq.; boyish amusements, his lines on, 9, 10; industry, 13, and successes, 14; apprenticeship to Mr Hammond, surgeon, 16 & n. 2 et sqq., silence of, on this period, 17; beginnings of poetry-writing, 17, 18, influences, 14, 18 et sqq., vocation first felt, 12, 21
1815-17
Life as medical student, 17, 26 & n., 27, 28 et sqq.; the doctor’s life abandoned, 28, 83; notebook of, 33 & n. 2; Friendships made and renewed, (see also Friends, infra), with Cowden Clarke, 34; with Leigh Hunt, 35-6 et sqq., et alibi, effect of the friendship with Hunt on his career, 41, 51 et sqq., friendships, formed through Hunt, 59 et sqq.; the laurel crown episode and his verses thereon then, and later, 55, 57-8, 415; verse-writing on a given subject, with Hunt, 55 et sqq.; at Margate, the Epistles written from, 37; first reading of Chapman’s Homer, the great sonnet written on it, 38 et sqq.; walk of, to the Poultry, 40 n.; Haydon’s acquaintance made, 59; other new friendships, 68 et sqq.; social surroundings, 78-9; social surroundings, aet. 21, 78-9; at a Bear fight, 81-2; growing passion for the poetic life, 83
1817
First book, Poems (q.v.), published, 83 et sqq., 130 et sqq.; new publishers found, and new friends gained, 133 et sqq.; stay in the Isle of Wight, Shakespeare studies and work on Endymion, during, 135 et sqq.; visit to Canterbury, effect of, 140; visit to Bailey at Oxford, described by the latter, 143 et sqq.; stay at Burford Bridge, 152, Endymion finished at, 161, 162; end of first phase of mind and art of, 163
Dec. 1817-June 1818
Dramatic criticism undertaken, 242 et sqq., life at Hampstead, 242, meeting with Wordsworth, 246; stay at Teignmouth, 260 et sqq., 429; marriage and emigration of his brother George, 268 et sqq.
June 1818-June 1819
the Scottish tour with Brown, 272 et sqq., and its effect on his health, 293 et sqq., 384, 545; the attacks on him in Blackwood, and the Quarterly Review, 297 et sqq.; the defence by his friends, 238, 311 et sqq., 516 et sqq.; effects of, 311 et sqq., 315, 316, 506, 515, 524, 534; the nursing of Tom Keats till his death, 316-20; the attraction of ‘Charmian,’ 318-19; life with Brown at Wentworth Place, 320 et sqq.; work on Hyperion, 322, 323, 327; harassed by borrowers, 323, 337 et sqq., 354-5; gift to, from an unknown admirer, 325; meeting with Fanny Brawne and his love for her, 329 et sqq., passim, 510, 534, 549; financial position of, 337-8, 354-5, lightened by Brown, 357; fight of, with a butcher-boy, 342-3 & n.; idleness, and work, 342 et sqq., meeting with Coleridge, 346-8, unsettlement in health and plans, 355 et sqq.
June 1819-Feb. 1821
Stay at Shanklin and work on Lamia and King Otho, 358 et sqq.; love letters from, to Fanny Brawne, 360 et sqq.; stay at Winchester, 362, 369; letters from, 370 et sqq.; determination to work for the Press, 373; his financial position, 373; attempted parting from Brown, stay with the Dilkes and return to Brown at Hampstead, 374-6; collaboration with Brown, 375 et sqq., 387; fluctuating spirits of, before his seizure, 375; hard work, 375-6, 379; inward sufferings, 376 et sqq.; laudanum—taking by (1819), 379, 380, 505 et sqq.; financial position, at this time, 379; trouble and health failure, 375 et sqq.; work of this period, 436 et sqq.; the fatal chill, 384, 455; invalid life, 456 et sqq.; letters from his sick bed, 455; slight improvement, 460; relapses, 462; at Kentish Town, 463, 466, 468; Shelley’s invitation to Italy, 467-8; work published while at Kentish Town, 268-9; the Lamia volume issued, 470 et sqq., the Reviews again severe, 473 et sqq.; stay with the Brawnes, 468, 485; wintering in Italy decided on, with Severn as companion, 485-7; the voyage, 486 et sqq.; life in Naples, 496 et sqq., and in Rome, 503; his ‘posthumous existence’ 384, 504, 510; the last days, 505 et sqq.; choice by, of his own epitaph, 510, 523-4; death, 512, and after, 513 et sqq.; burial place and memorial stone, 510, 523-4; the ‘might-have been’ had he lived, 548 et sqq.; posthumous attacks on, in, and by Blackwood, 519-20, De Quincey, 528-9 & n., and Quarterly Review, 527-8; rare allusion by, to the Reviews, 521; Shelley’s lament for, in Adonais, 517-19
Character and characteristics
Admiration of, for Chatterton, 146-7
Artistic tastes of, 66, 92, 255-6, 325
in Boyhood, 9 et sqq.; in Young Manhood, 24, 25
Brotherly affection of, 3, 11, 13, 24, 262, 268, 271, 371, 382-4, see also Keats, Fanny, George, and Tom
Contrasted with Shelley, 72-3
Conversation of, 145-7, 459 n.
Devotion of, to his Mother, 7, 14-15
Duality of, 15, 318
Early tendency to rhyming, 7
Feeling of, for the poetry of the past, 38
Genius of, 128-9, 234, 267-8, 484, 550
His own statements on, 153, 200-1, 223, 269, 368, 497
Indecision, Indefiniteness and Variableness of, 128-9, 142, 173, 223, 269, 270, 314, 315-16, 545
Interest of, in history and politics, 371
Keenness of perception, 52
Late awakening of literary proclivities, 12
Limitations due to social setting, 444
Love of
English spring flowers, 446-7
Liberty, foundations of, 14
the Moon, 22, 123-4, 153, 215-16 et sqq.
Nature, and its expression in his poems, 21, 22, 36, 79-80, 84, 90, 113, 114, 122-3, 128, 144, 149, 152-3, 159 et sqq., 216 et sqq., 226, 232
as Lover, seen in his letters, 360 et sqq.
Loyalty to his given word, 379
Manner, 143
Manners, 31, 32, 81 459 n.
as Mimic, 81-2
Modesty, 269, 313, 314
Morbidity of Temperament, 11, 12, 15, 80, 139, 464-5
Morals, 32
Naturalness and simplicity, 143
Perceptiveness, 441-2
Pride, 15, 31, 313
Pugnacity as schoolboy, 10 et sqq., 17, in later years, 17
Reading, and Reading gifts of, 81, 366
Wide range of, 88
Religious indefiniteness, 51, 71, 509
Reserve and inward bitterness (1820), 382, 383
Sensitiveness as to his origin, 71-2
Skill of, in friendship, 255
Social qualities, powers and taste, 81-2
as Sportsman, 326
Temper of, 145
Tender-heartedness &c., 444
Thirst for knowledge, 260, 265, 269
‘Vein of flint and iron’ in, 15, 315
Voice, 81, 145
Chief agent in revitalization of Greek mythology, 220 et sqq.
Critics and commentators of, 540
as Dramatist, 441 et sqq.
Epitaph of, chosen by himself, 510,
effect of, on public opinion on his Poems, 523-4
Eulogists of, 544-5
Fame of, slow growth and spread of, 520, 526 et sqq.; triumph of, 536, 540; forecasts on its disability, 546-8
Favourite flowers of, 510
Friends and Friendships of, see also Names of Friends
Estrangement from, in illness, 465
Indignation of, at the Reviews, 309 et sqq., 516 et sqq., 522
Love of his friends, 513 et sqq., 521
Loyalty of, long surviving, 527
Heir of the Elizabethans, 171
Italian Studies of, 370, 398
Letters from, and to, see, chiefly, under Names of Correspondents, and Epistles
Bradley’s lectures on, 545
Compared with Shelley’s, 541
Dr. Garnett on, 541
on Endymion, 150, 151, 153, value of, in the study of the poem, 154
Journal-letters from, to George Keats, value of, 317 et sqq.
Riches of, 262 et sqq.
Self-revelation in, 153-4, 371
Library of
Books in, 228 n., 390 n., 379 n. 1, 447 n.
List of, 556 et sqq.
Poems and Verses by, see also, and chiefly, under Names
Achievements, 385 et sqq.
Beauties in, 368
Charm of, 119-20
Cockneyism charged against (see also Cockney School), 109 n.
Collected
Editions of
First English, 520
Forman’s, 544, 549, & see footnotes
Galignani’s, 159 n., 527
Milnes’s, 520, 531 et sqq.
Concordance to, published by Cornell University, 575
Copy of, carried about by Shelley, 521, 522
Couplet as used in, 93 et sqq., 113-14, 207 et sqq., 209 n.
Criticism of, easy, 119-20
Echoes in, of earlier poets, 89, 90 et passim
Early writings, 22-3
Elizabethan influence on, 389, 479
Essential principle of versification, 208
Faults avoided in, 209
Faults existing in, 50, 186, 187, 207 et sqq., 211, 212, 213, 214-15, 221, 307, 368, 459
Felicitous compound epithets in, 412-13
Flippant note in, 404
Fragments and experiments, 385, 417 et sqq.
Insight into Keats’s mind and genius from, 424 et sqq.
Fugitive pieces, 256-7
Genius in, Evocative not Expository, 128-9, 234, 267-8
Gift of, to Browning and the effect, 526
Growing appreciation of, 520, 526 et sqq.
Inspiration of, from
Art, 54, 92, 117, 122, 200, 219, 231 n., 264, 414-16 & n., 417, 446
Nature, 21-2, 122-3
Sources, nature of, 165-6
Last lines written by, 435
Latest Eulogists of, 545
Lectures on, of Mackail, 545
Lyric experiments, 157 et sqq., 386
Mental experiences worked into, 173
Method of composition, 143-4
Metres and Styles used in, 109-10, 210-11, 258, 286 n., 287, 345, 349, 350 & n. 2, 386, 387, 414
Models of, see Echoes, supra, see also Elizabethan, & Hunt
Naturalness of, 395
Nature of, 541
Nature Poems, see Endymion
Odes written in 1819, 352 et sqq.
Opinions on, in the early ‘40’s, 528
Poems, published, 85 et sqq.
Poor sale of, 526, 528
Posthumous, two printed in Milnes’s book, 537
in progress and written in early 1819, 339
Promise in, of Dramatic and Ironic power, 222
Publishing schemes (1819), 366
Referring to his love for Fanny Brawne, 334 et sqq.
Revision of, uncertainty and un-wisdom shewn in, 469
Rimes used by, 119, 210-11, 307
Self-expression in, 222-3, 411
Snatches expressive of Moods, 424-5
Speculative and symbolic meanings underlying, the key to, 153-4
Sterling’s appreciation of, 528
Technique of, see also Metre, Rime, &c., 88
Thackeray’s allusion to, 538
Unquenchable by literary work done on them, 546
Unwritten, his distress over, 534, 548
Value of, to the reader, 546, 548
as Poet, Milnes’s words on, 536
Poetic impulses, causes checking, in 1819, 339, 340, 437
Political interests and views of, 14, 25, 371
Portraits of, by Haydon, 462, Severn, 328, 495, 511, 533
Reflections by, ethical and cosmic, 344-5
Spirit of poetry and pleasantness retained by, to the end, 511
Sayings
on Abandoning Hyperion, and on its Miltonisms, 436; on Beauty and Truth, 418; on Brotherly affection, 271; on Brown’s regular habits, 281; on Bailey’s appetite for books, 133-4; on the Blackwood article on Hunt, 152; on Fanny Brawne’s appearance &c., 329; on Brown’s rummaging out his old sonnets, 352 n.; on Devonshire weather and folk, 260-1, 262; on the Effect of the Reviews on the public, 340-1; on Endymion, his aims in, 165, 237, his dissatisfaction with it, 150, and its defence by his friends, 314-15, on its theme, 148; on Endymion’s confession, 180; on George Keats’s money troubles, 371; on Hazlitt’s Shakespearean Lectures, 68; on his ambitions as Poet, 324; on his feelings on life and literature, 364; on his own attitude to women, 288; on his own capacity for judging paintings, 256; on his own character, 153-4, 200-1, 223, 497, as poet, 269, 314-15; on his own need of Poetry, 136; on his own place in Poetry, 543; on his plans for Hyperion, 426; on his own pride &c., 368; on his poetry, and determination never to write for writing’s sake or for a livelihood, 339-40; on his poetry-writing idleness, (1819), 342, 348, 349, 352, 353; on his ‘posthumous existence,’ 505-6, 510; on his sensations in ordinary society, 326; on his own skill as operator, 29; on his state of mind in 1819, 356, 380, 491-2; on his unwritten poems, 534, 548; on his wishes as to future work (Nov. 1819), 380-1; on his work on the Ode to Psyche, 413-14; on the Ireby dancing-school, 277 & n., 278; on the Lasinio engravings, 325; on a mawkish popularity, 313; on his Nile sonnet and other writings (1818), 256; on the quarrels of his friends, 255; on the Quarterly’s attack and its good results, 326; on his reading, and on his mental state (1819), 341, 342; on the Scotch tour, 289; on Sickness, in the lighter vein, 263; on some friction with Hunt and others, 150-1; on street quarrels, 81; on three witty friends, 383; on Winchester ways, 371; on Wordsworth in 1817, 250, on his dogmatism and Hunt’s, 252-3, on his genius and Milton’s, 266
Keats, Mrs George (née Wylie, q.v., later Mrs. Jeffrey), 323, 365
Keats’s pleasant relations with, 270, 271
Letter to, from Keats, 383
Remarriage of, 531
Keats, Mrs Thomas (née Jennings), mother of the Poet, 3
Appearance and character of, 6-7
Devotion to, of Keats, 7, 14, 15
Second marriage of, 8-9
Death of, 14, 15
Keats, Sir Richard Godwin, of the ‘Superb,’ 4
Keats, Thomas, father of the poet, 2-3, 5
Characteristics of, 6
Death of, 8
Origin of, Señora Llanos on, 3
Keats, Thomas (Tom), brother of the poet, 3, 135, 137, 280, 466, 505
Ill-health of, Keats’s devotion during, 15, 162, 244, 262, 269, 295, 316 et sqq., 333, 426
Letters to, from Keats, on Fingal’s cave, 292, and on his health, 293; on the Lake District, 275-6; on Scottish Society, Economics and Racial character, 281-3
Wells’s hoax of, 77, 346
Death of, 15, 320, 322, 387
Keats, D.J. Llanos y, artist, son of Fanny Keats, 535-6
Keats Crescent, Shanklin, 358 n.
Keats, the name, its variants and locales, 3-5
Keats-Shelley Memorial at Rome, 542; Bulletin of, 16 n., 510 n.
‘Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there,’ sonnet (Keats), 52, included in Poems, 90
Kelmscott Press edition of Keats, and the restoration of the text of La Belle Dame, 470
Kendal, Keats at, 273
Kent, Miss (Mrs Leigh Hunt), 43
Kentish Town, Keats stay in, and health during, 463
Ker, Prof. W.P., suggestion of, on source of Keats’s ‘Magic casements’ lines, 291 & n.
Kerrera, and the Goylen legend, 291
Kete, meaning of, 4
King Lear, words from, used by Keats, 285 & n.
King Stephen, dramatic fragment (Keats), 364, 370, 443
Kingston, ——, and Wordsworth, 246-7, 251
Kirkmen, the, Keats on, 282-3
Kirkup, Seymour, at Florence, 523
Knight’s Tale (Chaucer), metre of, 94
Kubla Khan (Coleridge), 288
Echo of, in Endymion, 230
La Belle Dame sans Merci (Keats), an achievement, 350
Date of, 370, 441
Included in Milnes’s Book, 537
Morris, William, on, 470
Publication of, alterations in, and notices of, 468-70
Rossetti on, 439
Subject, perfection, and metre of, 350 & n.
Transcript of, by Brown, 469 & n.
True version, given in full, 351-2
Lai d’Aristote, 33
Ladye, The, of Provence (Reynolds), 333
Laidlaw, William, Scott, and Blackwood, 304
Laira Green, Brown’s life at, 530
Lake District, places visited in, by Keats with Brown, 272-3 et sqq.
Lake School Poets, morbidity asscribed to, by Hunt, 121
Lalla Rookh (Moore), price paid for, 82; popularity of, 313
Lamb, Charles, 388
Appearance, conversation and habits of, 69, 246 et sqq., 327
and the Baby, 370-1
Champion of the Poetic Revolution, 119
and the Enfield stiles, 18
Friendship of, with
Haydon, 62
Hunt, 43
Keats, 69
Parties of, given with Mary, 68
Publishers of, 131
Verse-letters to, from Hunt, 51
Works of, two volume ed. of 1818, Fuller’s Holy State quoted in Specimens, 388 & n. on the Digging Scene in Isabella, 395, 471
on Keats’s place in poetry, 484
on the Lamia volume poems, 471; the pick of, 395 n.
on Shelley, 70
Lamb, Dr, 466
Lamb, Mary, 43, 68
Lambeth, Brown’s birthplace, 142
Lamia (Keats), 239, 370, 386, 405, 421
Keats on, after re-reading, 372
Keats’s reading of, 366
Keats’s wish for instant publication of, 366
Place of, in the volume of 1820, 115 n.
Publication of, with other poems, 463
Full title and contents, 470-1
Reception of, and criticisms on, 471 et sqq., 481
Subject, source, metre and form of, 358, 404-10
Hunt on, 404-10
Lamb on, and other critics, 471 et sqq.
Wilson on (1828), 527
Lamia, Isabella, and other Poems, Keats’s immortality secured by, 470
Byron’s fury over, 481
Gift of, by Keats to Shelley, 468
Passage singled out from, by Lamb, 395 n.
Publication of, 463, 470-1
Publishers’ note in, disowned by Keats, 463
Lancaster, Keats at, 271
Land, The, East of the Sun (Morris), 438
Landon, Letitia, verse of, 526
Landor, Walter Savage, 530; admirer of Keats’s poems, 523
on Milnes’s book, 537
Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry, at Haydon’s, 246
Land’s End, Keats’s father said to have come from, 3
Lang, Andrew, on errors in Criticism, 308
on the ‘gallipots’ article, 308, 309-10
Lanteglos, the Keats of, 5
Laon and Cythna (Shelley), 73
Lara (Byron), form used in, 108
Lasinio, engravings by, Keats’s delight in, 325
Laureation or Intercoronation affair, reference to, in the Ode to Indolence (Keats), 415
Sonnets on, by
Hunt, 56
Keats, 57, 91, 307
Amplification of, in Endymion, 57-8, 189
Law Life Insurance Society, Woodhouse’s connection with, 134.
Lawn Bank, Hampstead, 321 n.
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 501.
Lay Sermons (Coleridge), 134
Lay, The, of the Last Minstrel (Scott), 396
Leander, sonnet on (Keats), see On a Picture of Leander
Leander gems of Tassie, 92 & n. 2
Lea Valley, in Keats’s day, 21-2
Leicester, Earl of, Keats’s notion of, writing about, 381
Lelant, the name Jennings at, 5
Le Sage, name ‘Sangrado’ borrowed from, 309 n.
Letter to William Gifford, Esq. (Hazlitt), 341
Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Ingpen, 482 n.
Liberal, The, Brown’s contributions to, 522
‘Libertas,’ Hunt’s sobriquet, 44
L.S.A. degree, obtained by Keats, 27
Life of, Dryden (Scott), 45
Life of Joseph Severn (Sharp), new knowledge of Keats given in, 545
Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited by Richard Monckton Milnes (1848), 520, 531 et sqq.
Life of Scott, by Lockhart, 310
Lindo, —— (later Lindon, ——), husband of Fanny Brawne, 535
Lindon, Mrs, see Brawne, Fanny.
Line endings of couplets
Closed or open, varieties of usage, 94 et sqq.
Double, objections to, and usual employment of, 103; illustrated, 104
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey (Wordsworth), Keats on, 267
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (Keats), 258; date and metre of, 327, 386; hints on immortality in 387; included in the Lamia volume, 470
Lines written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns’s Country (Keats), 285; metre and interest of, 286 & n.
Lisbon, Keats scheme of a visit to, 151, abandoned, 162
List of Books in Keats’s Library, 390 n., 397 n., 556 et sqq.
Literary Criticism, cruelty of, early 19th century, 299 et sqq.
Literary ladies and ‘the Matchless Orinda,’ 150
Literary Pocket Book (Hunt), 324
Little Britain, the Reynolds’s House in, 74, 288
Littlehampton, the Reynolds’ at, 147
Live Pets, Keats on keeping, 10, 338
Llanos, Fanny (née Keats), 535
Civil List pension secured for, by Forman, 536
Death of, in ripe years, 536
on the Cornish origin of her father, 3
Llanos, Valentine, husband of Fanny Keats, 535
Loch Awe, Keats on the first sight of, 289
Loch Fyne, doggerel verses on (Keats), 288
Loch Lomond, Keats on, 287-8
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, on Señora Llanos and her husband, 536
Lockharts, the, Scotch tour of, 290-1
Lockhart, John Gibson, co-editor of Blackwood, partisan excesses of, 298, 525-6, and later regrets, 299, 310
Article attributed to, in error, 528 n. 1
Challenge of, to John Scott, 519
and the Death of Keats, current belief as to, 525-6
Keats’s death-bed saying on, 521
at Weimar, 298, 309
London Magazine, The, and its editor-publisher, 133, 311, 519
Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries, (Hunt, 1828), Keats memories in, 36, 532
Louisville, Kentucky, George Keats’s death at, 531
Love, effect of, on Keats, 332, 334 et sqq. Keats’s conception and treatment of, 181, 183, 213, 221, 393, 549 & n.
Love and Death, Keats’s double goal, 112, 336, 344, 362, 375
Love and Marriage, Keats’s early fears of, and attitude to, 262, 318-20,
justified, 330 et sqq. passim
Love and War, Poetry of, 221
Lover’s complaint, A, sonnet (Keats), when written, 492-4
Lowell, James Russell, 540
Lowther family, and the Election of 1818, 272, 274
Lucas, ——, surgeon, described by South, 29; Keats as dresser to, 27
Lucas, E.V., debt to, as concerning Charles Lamb, 471 n.
Lucy, Wordsworth’s poem on, Keats on, 146
Lulworth Cove, landing at, 492, 494
Lycidas (Milton), 19, 262
Adonais compared with, 517
Echoed by Keats, 111, 431
Lyric effects in, 122
Lyly, John, prose comedy of Endimion, by, 167, allegorical nature of, 168 n.
Lyrical Ballads of Coleridge and Wordsworth, 21, poetical revolution introduced by, 108, 118, 119, 207
Lyrical effect attempted by Keats in I stood tip-toe, and elsewhere, 122
Lyrics, in Endymion, in relation to the Classics and Elizabethan poets, 224 et sqq.
‘Macbeth,’ picture by Haydon, 60
Macfarlane, Charles, on Keats and the scentless roses, 501, and on the macaroni eaters, 502 & n.
Mackail, J.W., Lectures of, on Keats’ poetry, 545; on the Mystic Shell in Endymion & in The Prelude, 196 & n.
Mackereth, George Wilson, fellow-student of Keats, 30, 176
Mackintosh, Sir James, and Endymion, 313
Macpherson, James, and the pseudo-Ossian poems, 107
M‘Cracken, H. Noble, article by, referred to, 398 n.
Macready, William Charles, in Retribution, Keats’s criticism on, 242
Mad Banker of Amsterdam, comic poem (Lockhart), 309
Madeline, in the Eve of St Agnes, 401 et sqq., et alibi
Mad Mother, The (Wordsworth), 121
Madness, from ecstasy, Keats on, 257
Keats’s fear of, lines on, 425
‘Magic casements’ phrase, possible sources of, 264-5, 291
Maginn, William, critical ferocity of, 137; insolent article and parody by, on Adonais, 519-20
Maid’s Tragedy (Beaumont and Fletcher), 341; Endymion references in, 168
Man, relations of to Nature, Wordsworth’s exposition of, 128, 129
Man, The, Born to be King (Morris), 438
Man, The, in the Moone (Drayton), echoes from, in Endymion, 169 et sqq.
Manfred (Byron), 302
Margaret (Wordsworth), 121
Margate, letters from, by Keats, to, various friends, 137 et sqq.
Maria Crowther, ship which took Keats to Italy, 486, 488, fellow-passengers on, 488-9, 490, 495, 496, 498
Marlowe, Christopher, poems by, 169, Endymion lines in, 67; use in, of the Heroic couplet, 96-7
Marvell, Andrew, use by, of the Heroic couplet, 102
Mathew, Ann, and Caroline, 24; Keats’s verses to, 23, 24, 86
Mathew, George Felton, Epistle to, by Keats, 93, 109 & n., 110, 470
on Keats in early manhood, 24-5, and on his appearance, 25
Maurice, Rev. Frederick Denison, editor of The Athenæum, 52
Measure for Measure, words from, used in Endymion, 201
Mediæval Mythology, vitality of, to Keats, 110
Mediævalism of Keats, 439-41
Medwin, T., Letter to, from Fanny Brawne, on Keats and his passions, 330 n., 465 & n.
on Shelley’s views on the poems in the Lamia volume, 482-3
Meg Merrilees, Ballad of (Keats), 279-80, 386
Melody in verse, and the Vowel sounds, Keats’s ideas on, 147, 209, 401-2
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, poems (Wordsworth), 387 & n.
‘Me rather all that bowery loneliness’ alcaics (Tennyson), 38
Mermaid Tavern, verses on, see ‘Lines on the Mermaid Tavern’
Metamorphoses (Ovid), in Sandys’ translation, source of Keats’s mythological knowledge, 171, 174 n., influence of in Endymion, 190, 195, 201, 206
Metre, decay of, 100
Metres employed by Keats, 86; Keats’s revolutionary treatment of, 207 et sqq.
Midsummer Night’s Dream, 86; source of Oberon &c. in, 87 n.
Milanese pictures, engravings of, 325 & n.
“Milky Way” of poetry, Quarterly’s phrase on Keats’s work, 528
Mill, James, and Hunt, 43
Millais, Sir John Everett, the Italian Primitives and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 325; a Keats worshipper, 538
Milman, H. H., 263
Milnes, Monckton (Lord Houghton, q.v.), Memoir of Keats by, 520, sources, 531 et sqq., merit and timeliness, gaps and errors in, and reception of, 336 et sqq.
Milton, John, and the Faithful Shepherdess, 168
Genius of, relative to that of Wordsworth, Keats on, 266; Keats compared with, by Landor, 537
Hair of, Lines on, by Keats, 257
Poems of, Brown’s travelling book, 272
Influence of, on Keats, and Keats’s study of, 195, 262, 386, 399, 428, 429, 430-6, 545
Model for English epic poetry, 429
Sprightly lines in, 109 n.
Use in, of the
Heroic couplet, 101-2
Sicilian pastoral elegy form, 517
’Minutes are flying,’ see On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt
Minstrel, The (Beattie), 19
Mitford, Mary Russell, friend of Haydon, 62, his letter to her, on Keats’s death, 521
Mnemosyne, in Hyperion, 429, 433 et sqq., passim
Mole river, in Keats’s poem, 159
Moneta, in Hyperion, 447 & n., 450
Montagu, Basil, on Keats’s poems, 41
Monitress, the, in Hyperion, 453-4
Monkhouse, Cosmo, 246
Monthly Chronicle, The, 53
Monthly Review, 354 n.; on the Lamia volume, 474
Moods, Keats on, 265, 269, 270-1, 344, 348; his sufferings from, 359 et sqq., passim
Moon, the, Keats’s attitude to, 123, 166-7, 189 fine lines on, in Endymion, 215-16
Moore, Thomas, 86, 518
Poems of, Hunt’s verdict on, 44
Lines on the Hunts in prison, 43
Popularity of Lalla Rookh, 313
Sums received for, 82
Prose works, see Epicurean, & Tom Cribb’s Memorial
Verse-letter to, from Hunt, 50-1
Morgan MSS., 366 n., 477 n.
Morning Chronicle, attitude of, to Endymion, 311
Morris, Harrison S., on Keats’s choice of epitaph, 510 n.
Morris, William, anticipations of, by Keats, 438-9
True text of La Belle Dame, restored by, 470
Poems of, inspiration and model for, 539
on Keats’s poetry, 470, 539
Moschus, his elegy on the death of Bion, 517, 518
Mother Hubbard’s Tale (Spenser), Heroic couplet used in, 96
Mountain Scenery as Inspiration for a Poet, Keats’s rare phrase on, 284
Mull, Keats’s expedition to, 291, and the first failure of his health, 293
Murray, A. S., on the inspiration of the Ode to a Grecian Urn, 416 n.
Murray, John, and Blackwood, 302; and the Quarterly Review, 27
Muse of his Native Land, address to, in Endymion, 197
Musée Napoleon, The, classic prints in, Keats’s tracing from, 416 & n.
‘My spirit is too weak,’ see On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
Mythology, Greek and Mediæval, vitality of, to Keats, 110
Naiad, The (Reynolds), 74
Napoleon I., 416 & n.; aggressions of, effect on the Lake poets, 45
Art collection of, 416 & n.
Naples, Keats in quarantine at, 496 ill-effects of, 498
Narensky, opera (Brown), 359
Nature, attitude to, of Keats, and its influences as seen in his poems, 21-2, 79-80, 114, 122-3, 189, 215-16 et alibi
‘Nature, red in tooth and claw’ (Tennyson), Keats’s anticipation of, 448-9
Negative capability, Keats on, 253-4
Nelson, Admiral Lord, 4
Newcome, Colonel in The Newcomes, and his son’s views on Keats, 537
Newmarch, ——, and Keats, 32
New Monthly Magazine, Colburn’s, review in, of the Lamia volume, 473-4
Newport, Isle of Wight, Reynolds’s County Court post at, 533
New Times, Lamb’s critique in, of the Lamia volume, 471-2
Newton, Sir Isaac, in Haydon’s picture, 247, 462
New York Herald, 1889, Recollections of Fanny Brawne, by a cousin, published in, 330 n.
New Zealand, Brown’s death in, 531
Nile, the, sonnets on, by Shelley, Keats, and Hunt, 256
Noctes Ambrosianæ (Wilson), on
Keats’s poems (1828), 527 n. 3
Wordsworth, 300
Northampton, Countess of, death of, Scott’s grief at, 525
Northcote, James, on the ass in Haydon’s painting, 461
‘Not Aladdin Magian’ (Keats), referring to Fingal’s Cave, 292-3
Notes on Gilfillan’s Literary Portraits (De Quincey), outburst in, against Keats, 528-9 & n.
Novello, Mary Victoria, see Clarke, Mrs Charles Cowden
Novello, Vincent, musical parties of, Keats at, 327, 328
‘Nymph of the Downward smile,’ sonnet (Keats), addressed to Miss Wylie, and included in Poems, 89, 270
Nymphs, The (Hunt), 138
Oberon (Wieland), Sotheby’s translation of, 86-7 & n., 309
Modified Spenserian stanza in, 445
Oberon and Titania, Keats’s lines on, and possible sources, 86, 87 & n.
Ocean floor theme, in Endymion, in relation to Shakespeare and Shelley, 189, 239
Oceanus (Hyperion), speech of, 433-4
Ode to Apollo (Keats), 23
Ode to Autumn (Keats), 386; date of, 370, 421; form, perfections, and lines from, 421-3
Greek influence seen in, 426
Ode to Fanny (Keats), as a cry of the heart, 334; date of, 334, 339; lines from, quoted, 335-6
Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats), 153, 386, 422, a masterpiece; inspiration, sources, subject, &c., 232, 264, 415, 416 & n., 417-18
Date of, 352, 353
Ode to Hope (Keats), 23
Ode on Intimations of Immortality (Wordsworth), Keats’s comment on, 145-6, 159 n.
Ode on Indolence (Keats), 386; date of, 352, 353
Echo from, 356
Greek influence seen in, 414
Keats’s pleasure in writing, 415
Lines on Visions in, probable source of, 412 n.
Not included in the Lamia volume, 470
Ode to Maia (Keats), unfinished, 265; Greek influence seen in, 426; included in the Lamia volume, 470
Ode on Melancholy (Keats), 386; date of, 352, 354, 419
Embryo ideas of, 259 n.
Subject and splendours of, 419-21
Ode to a Nightingale (Keats), 203, 383, 422
Date of, 352, 353-4, 418
Echoes in, 344, 418
Embryo ideas of, 259 n.
Hippocrene passage in, 542
Keats’s genius at its height in, 419
Inspirations of, 264-5
Line in, anticipated, 344
Publication of, 354
Ode to Psyche (Keats), 386; date, 352, 411, 441
Germ of lines in, 276
Sources, qualities, faults and beauties, 411, 412 & n., 413-14
Odes and Addresses by Eminent Hands (Hood and Reynolds), 533
Odes (Keats), in Lamia volume, 470
Odes, the six (Keats), 308
Dates of, 411 et sqq., 441
Metre and form of, 411-13, 414-15
Odes, The, of Keats (Downer), Urn illustrated in, 416 n.
Odyssey (Chapman’s version), influence seen in Endymion, 206
Use in, of the Heroic couplet, 99
‘O fret not after knowledge—I have none,’ lines by Keats, 260, 424
‘O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute,’ sonnet (Keats), date and subject of, 257
Old Plays (Dodsley), Dilke’s continuation of, 142
Ollier Brothers, publishers for Shelley, Keats and others, 83, 263; and the unsuccess of Poems, 131, 133
Ollier, Charles, sonnet by, on Poems, 131
Ollier, James, on the public attitude to Poems, 133
‘O Melancholy, linger here awhile,’ Invocation in Isabella, beauties of, 392
‘O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies’ (Tennyson), a Keats anticipation of, 237
On first looking into Chapman’s Homer sonnet (Keats), 38, 40 & n., 41, 54
Full text of, 88
Included in Poems, 133
Technical perfection of, 87
On the Grasshopper and Cricket, sonnet (Keats), 55; included in Poems, 91
On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour, sonnet (Keats), 90
On Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini,’ sonnet (Keats), 91
On the Peace of Paris (1814), sonnet (Keats), 23, 44, 91
On [an engraved Gem of] Leander, sonnet (Keats), 92 & nn. 1 & 2
On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt, sonnet (Keats), 57
On Receiving a Curious Shell and a Copy of Verses [from some Ladies], stanza (Keats), metre of, 86
On the Sea, sonnet (Keats), written at Carisbrooke, 135
On seeing the Elgin Marbles, sonnet (Keats), 66
On sitting down to read King Lear once again, sonnet (Keats), 257
Opposites, A Song of (Keats) 263, 389
Optics and the Poet, 400-1
Orcagna, picture by, possibly inspiring Keats, 446
Orlando Innamorato (Boiardo), 552
‘O Solitude! if I with thee must dwell,’ sonnet (Keats), 35 & n.; included in Poems, 90
Othello (Shakespeare), Kean’s voice in, Keats on, 243
Otho the Great, a tragedy by Keats and Brown, 357, 359, 364, 421, an experiment, 386, 441
Admiration for, at Rome, 526
First printed, 537
Plot, construction and poetry of, 442-3
Production of, difficulties on, 370, 372, 381
Ottava rima, used by Byron, 390
Ovid, Arethusa myth as told by, 187
Cosmology of, 174 & n.
Echoes of, in Endymion, 168, 171, 174 & n., 185, 187, 201
Metamorphoses of, in Sandys’ translation, value of, to Keats, 171, 174 n.; influence seen in Endymion, 190, 195, 201, 206
Oxford, Keats’s visit to, 142, 429; his own words on, 143 et sqq.
Endymion partly written at, 143-4, 147
Oxford Herald, Endymion praised in, by Bailey, 270
Oxford University Press, Delegates of, edition issued by, of La Belle Dame, 469 & n.
Owen, Mrs F.M., Study by, on Endymion, 544
Pain, The, of Memory, a variant of In drear-nighted December, third stanza of, 158 n.
Palgrave, F.T., admiration of, for the sonnet Woman, when I behold thee flippant, vain, 89; place given by, to Lamia, 406
on Keats’s Poems (Golden Treasury Series), 544
Pan, see Hymn to
Pan’s Anniversary (Jonson), 225, lines from, 226
Paradise Lost (Milton), compared with Hyperion, 333
Echoes of, in Keats’s poems, 90, 154, 155, 401, and in Shelley’s, 430
Feast of Fruits in, 401
Keats’s notes to, 152
Keats’s study of, and criticisms on, 262, 369
Titans in, 428
Parisina (Byron), 302
Park, Mungo, 246
Park, Thomas, editor of Heliconia, 157 n.
Parnaso Italiano, Hunt’s reading of, 44
Parsons, Keats on, 335
Parthenon Marbles, see Elgin Marbles
Pastoral spirit of the Elizabethans blent with love of Country Pleasures, and Renaissance delight in Classic Poetry, re-emergence in Keats’s poetry, 226
Patmore, Coventry, 300; and Milnes’s Life of Keats, 531, 540, 542
Pause, the, in metre, 94-5
Peacock, Thomas Love, Keats on, 263
Letter to, from Shelley, on Hyperion, 482
Poem by, metre of, and similarity of subject to Lamia, 405
Penseroso, Il (Milton), metre of, 386
Peona, in Endymion, 177, 202, 203, 204; the confession to, 178, her expostulation, 179, and his defence, 180 et sqq.
Percy’s Reliques, 107
‘Peter Corcoran,’ in Reynolds’s The Fancy, 475 & n.
Peter Bell (Wordsworth), skit on, by Reynolds: notice of the latter by Keats, 348
Petersburg, Brown’s connection with, 142
‘Pet lamb’ phrase, in the Ode to Indolence, 415
Pharonnida, (Chamberlayne), character of the verse of in, 100-1
Philaster (Beaumont and Fletcher), phrase from, adapted by Keats in his epitaph, 510
Philips, Katherine (Orinda), poems of, Keats on, 150; use by, of the Heroic couplet, 103
Philological Journal of Chicago University, article in, on Keats, 398 n.
Philosophy, Keats’s use of the word, 266
Pidgeon, Miss, Keats’s fellow-passenger, 488, 489, 499
Piron, allusions to, by Lockhart, 309
Pisa, 517, 522 Adonais printed at, 519
Plato, and the myths of the Aphrodites, Pandêmos and Urania, 549 n. 1
Shelley’s enthusiasm for; Keats’s indirect knowledge of, 237
Plays, Keats’s ambition to write, 381
Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal, Brown’s touring diary published in, 273 n.
Poems, Keats’s first book, its spirit and contents, 85 et sqq.; publication of, 164; public reception of, and Reviews on, 130-3, 311
Sonnet dedicating it to Hunt, 83, 90, and the reply, 130-1
Poems, long, Hunt’s adverse view on; contraverted by Keats, 165
Poet, the, Death-bed feelings of, Keats on, in the Epistle to George Keats, 112
Prime endowments of, Keats on, 165
Wordsworth’s doctrine on, 233-4, endorsed by Keats and by Shelley, 234 et sqq.
Poet, The, a fragment (Keats), 425
Poetic license revived by Keats, 207
Revolution, the captains of, 108, 118, 119, 207
Style, Hunt’s views on, 47, 49
Poetical Sketches (Blake), on the older style of verse, 107
Poetry, Keats on
Axioms, 254
Conception of, 252-3
His own need of, 136
Polar Star of, 165
New, arising from the world war, 547-8
Renaissance of, in England, 1, 21, 82
Romantic, 19th century, Morris’s perhaps the last of, 539
Weirdness and terror in the early period, 396
Technique of, Keats’s insight into, 38
Polymetis (Spence), picture in, 200, possibly inspiring Keats, 200, 231
Polyphemus and Galatea story; Ovid’s version, and Keats’s, 201, 204
Pope, Alexander, 428
Poems of (and of his school), Byron’s championship of, 480
Early Victorian depreciation of, 537
Keats’s dislike of, 18, 31, 139, 393
Use by, of the heroic couplet, long ascendancy of his method, 104, 106-7; illustration and contrast with Shakespeare, 105-6
on ‘our rustic vein’ in poetry, 207
Pope-Boileau passage in Sleep and Poetry, Blackwood on, 307; Byron’s rage at, 480-1
Popular Antiquities (Brand), on the legend of St Agnes’ Eve 397
Popular Tales of the West Highlands (Campbell), on the Goylen story, 291 n.
Porphyro, in Eve of St Agnes, 401 et sqq.
Porter, Jane, and Anna Maria, works of, and encouragement by, of Keats, 325
Pen portraits by the former, 326
Portsmouth, Keats’s landing at, 491
Poultry, The, home at, of the Keats brothers, 28, 38, 40 n., 135
Poussin, Nicholas, picture by, inspiration of, to Keats, 198, 219, 416
Prayer, Haydon’s letter on, to Keats, 62, 138-9
Pre-Raphaelitism, evoking cause, 325
Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Morris), 538 n.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, enthusiasm of, for Keats, as shown by its paintings, 538
and The Eve of St Mark, 439
Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 128; the last published passages in, 250-1; the Mystic Shell in, Mackail on, 196 n.
Prince Regent, the, and The Examiner, 42; Moore’s skits on, 43
Pride in his work, Keats on, 364 & see n. 1
Prior, Matthew, metre of his day, 86
Procter, Bryan Walter (Barry Cornwall), 21 n.; kindness of, to Keats, 459
Poem by, on the same subject as Isabella, 459
Style of, Shelley’s disgust at, 482
on Keats’s manner, conversation and appearance, 459 n.
on the Lambs’ evening parties, 68
on Leigh Hunt, 47 n.
Procter, Mrs, 321 n.; on Keats’s eyes, 466
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley), 89; Keats echoes in, 239; lines cited, 240
Keats on, in advance, 467
Review of, in Blackwood, 477-8
Proper Wooing Song, A, echo of, by Keats, 157-8
Prothero, George, 528 n. 1
Prowse, Mrs, and Keats, 262
Psyche (Tighe), 19, 412
Punning, 327
Purgatory, (Dante), the Eagle in, 186
Pymmes Brook, the, Keats’s allusions to, 10
Quarterly Review, The, 77
Harsh criticisms in, 299
on Endymion, 137, 310-11, 476, 527-8
Influence of, 316, Keats on, 341
Keats’s illness ascribed to, by his friends, 516 et sqq.
Politics, publisher and rivals of, 297
Review in, of Tennyson’s poems, 527-8
Queen Lab, oriental counterpart of Circe, 195
Raccolta of Prints by Zanconi, 325 n.
Raeburn, Sir Henry, portrait by, of the Countess of Northampton singing, 525
Rainbow, The (Campbell), echoed by Keats, 408-9
Rawlings, Mrs, see Keats, Mrs Thomas
Rawlings, William, stepfather of Keats, 8-9
Rawlings v. Jennings, 15 n.
‘Read Me a Lesson, Muse,’ see Ben Nevis, sonnet
Recollections of Writers (Cowden Clarke), 13 n.
Redding, Cyrus, 473, and Galignani’s edition of Keats’s and other poems, 527 n. 2
Redgauntlet (Scott), the dancing dame in, 277 n.
Reflector, edited by Hunt, 46
Lamb’s Specimens printed in, 388 n.
Regalities, Keats on, in Endymion, 189
Rejected Addresses, 533
Reminiscences of a Literary Life (Macfarlane), 502 n.
Restoration Poets, compared with Georgian, 207
Retribution, or The Chieftain’s Daughter (Dillon), Macready in, Keats’s criticism on, 242
Reviews, effect of, on the public, Keats on, 340-1
Hostile to Keats, and their effect, see Coleridge, Severn and others on, see also Blackwood’s, ‘Cockney School,’ Quarterly Review, Severn, Shelley, Taylor, ‘Z’ articles
Revolt of Islam (Shelley), first title for, 73
Reynolds, Charlotte, 55, 76
Reynolds family, 74; Keats’s estrangement from, 465
Reynolds, Jane (later Mrs Thomas Hood), 55
Keats’s verses in her album, 76
Letter to, from Keats, on gay and grave, 149
on the date of ‘In a drear-nighted December,’ 158
Reynolds, John Hamilton, friendship of, with Keats, 65, 73-6, 141, 151, 242, 504, 529
Bailey’s friendship with, and with his family, 134, 341
Epistle to, from Keats, 389
Latter days of, 533
as Lawyer, 75, 76, 533
Letters to, from Keats, on Autumn weather, 421-2; on being Haunted by a Woman’s shape and voice, 316-17; on Confused and Clear Mental Images, 263-5; on Endymion, and on Shakespeare’s sonnets, 153, on the intended preface to Endymion, 269; on his feelings on Life and Literature (1819), 364; on the genius of Wordsworth and Milton, 266; on Human life, 267; on Isabella, or, The Pot of Basil, 312-13; on leaving town, 135, and one from Carisbrooke, 135-6; at Oxford, 149; on Social doings, 245; on his Thirst for Knowledge, 265-6; on Thrush music, 260, 424; on the two Chambers of Thought, 267, 448; on the Visit to Burns’s cottage, 284, 285; with lines to Apollo, 257; from Winchester, 371 et sqq.; on Wordsworth’s dogmatism and on Hunt’s, 252-3
Literary work of, 65, 74, 75, 348, 475 n., 521, 533
and Milnes’s Biography, 533-4
Medley by (The Fancy), 475 n.
Poems, 521, 533
Letters on, from Byron and from Wordsworth, 74
Models of, 74
Inspired by Boccaccio, 259-60, 333, 389
Parodies, 74
Skit by, on Peter Bell (Wordsworth), 348
Sonnet to Keats (Thy thoughts, dear Keats), 75
Sonnet to Haydon, 65
Quarrels of, 254-5
Wit of, Keats on, 383
on Endymion, 312-13, and on the preface thereto, 269
on Fanny Brawne, 331; on hopes for Keats’s recovery, 513; on Isabella, 312-13; on Keats, as killed by the Reviews, 521
Reynolds, Mariane, 55, 76
Bailey’s attachment to, 134, end of, 341
Reynolds, Misses
Keats’s letter to, from Oxford, 147
Keats’s changed feelings for, 337
Reynolds, Mr and Mrs, friends and home of, 74
Rhododaphne, poem (Peacock), resemblance of, to Lamia, 406, 408
Rice, James, friend of Reynolds and of Keats, 76, 135, 141, 263, 366, 533
Help from, to Keats, 486
Keats’s stay with, at Shanklin, 357-9
Letter to, from Keats, during his illness, 458
Wit of, Keats on, 383
Richard, Duke of York, and Kean’s acting in, Keats’s criticism on, 242-3
Richard III. (Shakespeare), Keats’s criticism of, and of Kean’s acting in, 242-4
Undersea lines in, Keats’s challenging passage in Endymion, 239, Jeffrey’s praise of, and Shelley’s assimilation of, 239-40
Richards, ——. wit of, Keats on, 383
Richardson, Sir B.W., on the composition of the line ‘A Thing of Beauty,’ 176 n.
Rime, Keats’s faults in use of, 211-12
Rimed couplet, Shelley’s use of, 241
Ritchie, Joseph, the explorer, 246 et sqq., 324
Robin Hood, poem (Keats), 258; date of, 386; included in the Lamia volume, 470
Robinson, Clement, echo of, in Keats, 158 & n.
Robinson, Henry Crabb, 244-5; friendly to Keats, 251
on poems in the Lamia volume, 483
on Wordsworth at the time of Keats’s meeting with him, 245 et sqq.
Rob Roy (Scott), Wordsworth’s advance criticism on, 246
Rob Roy (Wordsworth’s ballad), the writer’s estimate of, 246
Rogers, Samuel, poems of, Jeffrey on, 528
Use by, of the Heroic couplet, 108
Roman laws on Infectious Disease, 508
Romantic poetry of the 19th century, Morris’s perhaps the last of, 539
Weirdness and Terror of, in early period, 390
Romaunt of the Rose (Chaucer), 437
Rome, Keats’s journey to, and death in, 498, 501, 502 et sqq., 512 et sqq.
Keats-Shelley Memorial at, 542
Severn at, after Keats’s death, 522, 530
Shelley’s burial place at, 521
Rondeau, the, Keats’s view on, 388
Ronsard, Pierre, Ode of, to Michel de l’Hôpital, on the Titans, 428-9
Ross, Sir John, and the search for the North-West passage, 324
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, enthusiasms of, and high tribute to Keats, 538, 539
Evocation in, of Pre-Raphaelitism, 325
on The Eve of St Mark, 437, 439-40
Rossetti, William, on the poetry of Shelley and of Keats, 541
‘Rowleyism’ of The Eve of St Mark, 438
Rune-inscribed Shell, in Endymion, 196 & n.
Ruskin, John, and others, praises by, of the Ode to Psyche, 413
Ruth (Wordsworth), 121
Rydal, Keats’s visit to, in Wordsworth’s absence, 274
Sabrina, Keats’s poem planned on, 495, 504
‘Sacrifice to Apollo,’ picture by Claude, as inspiration to Keats, 264
Sad Shepherd, The (Fletcher), 206
‘Sad stories of the deaths of Kings,’ Shelley’s outburst with, 138 & n.
Safie (Reynolds), 74
St Columb Major, the Keats of, 5
St Paul’s School, Reynolds at, 74
Saintsbury, Professor, and the debt of Endymion to the Pharonnida of Chamberlayne, 209 n.
St. Stephen’s, Colman Street burial-place of Keats’s grandmother, 16 n. 1
St Thomas’s Street, Keats’s “chummery” at, 28, 30
Samson Agonistes (Milton), 272
St. Teath, the Keats’ of, 4 n., 5
Sanctuary, the, in Hyperion, 451-2
Sandell, Rowland, 16
Sandoval (Llanos), 536
Sandys, George, translation by, of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Keats’ use of, 171
Echoes of, in Keats’s poems, 206, 224, 428
Use in, of the heroic couplet, 99-100
San Giuliano, Adonais composed at, 517
Sangrado, Dr., origin of the name, 309 & n.
Sappho, lines from, on Love, the limb-loosener, 332 & n.
Poem of, on the Endymion legend, 166 n.
Sarcophagus reliefs, as inspiration of Keats’s Bacchic lines, 231, & n., 232
Satyr, The, masque (Jonson), and the legend of St. Agnes’ Eve, 396
Metre of, 386
Scenery, Keats’s attitude to, 153, 174 et sqq.
Science and Poetry, views on, of Hunt, Keats and Wordsworth, 408-11
Scotland, Keats’s comments on, 278, 282 et sqq.
Scott, Anne, 525
Scott, John, the ‘Z’ papers denounced by, 311; duel over, resulting in death of, 519, 526
Scott, Sir Walter, friend of Haydon, 62
Letter from, to Lockhart, on his method of criticism, 305-6
Poems of, 21, 49, 108, 537
Attitude to, of Hunt, 21, 45, 303
Environment as affecting, 1
Commercial success of, 82
Position of, as poet, 526
and his Publishers, 303
Relations of, with the Blackwood group and Lockhart, 303-6
in Rome, 525
Smile of, Haydon on, 525 n.
Wordsworth’s sonnet to, 525 n.
on the Chaldee Manuscript, 304
on Criticism, 305-6
on Keats, 525
Scott, William Bell, on The Eve of St Mark, 440-1
Scottish Chiefs, The (Porter), 325
Scottish Lowlands, Keats’s tour in, 278
Scots and Edinburgh Magazine, Review in of ‘Poems,’ 132, 311 & n.
Scylla, in Endymion, 190 et sqq.
Sea, the, Keats on, 149
Sonnet on (Keats), 135
Selections from the English Poets (Ward), Arnold’s essay on Keats in, 543 n.
Selene, Artemis, Diana, and the Endymion myth, 116 n.
Sensations, Keats’s use of the term, 155-6, 266
Sentence-structure, Keats’s aptitude for, 209
That of Endymion and of Pharonnida compared, 209 n.
Session of the Poets (Suckling),
Sethos, old French romance, imitations of, 186 n.
Severn, James, father of Joseph, 78; wrath at Severn’s going to Italy with Keats, 488
Severn, Arthur, and the lost drawing of Keats, 495
Severn, Joseph, artistic gifts of, 78
Account by, of the voyage with Keats to Italy, 489 et sqq.
and A Lover’s Complaint, 492-4
Attitude of, to Fanny Brawne, 33 & n., 331
Drawings by, of Keats in his Berth at sea, 495 (lost); in his Bed in Rome, 511; at Novello’s (lost), 328; a miniature once owned by Fanny Brawne, 533
Friendship of, with Keats, 77-8, 141, 262
Keats’s companion in Italy, 487 et sqq.; devotion shown by to the end, 504 et sqq.; and the effect of the Reviews on Keats, 516, 522; loyalty to Keats, 324; a touching incident recorded by, 524-5
Letters from, to various friends on the journey to Italy and Keats’s last days there, 489 et sqq., passim
Letters to, from Keats’s friends, while in Rome, 513 et sqq.
Life of, in Rome, 530, 536
Parents of, 78
Pictures by, 380, 487
Religious views of, 71
Sharp’s Life of, new knowledge of Keats derived from, 545
on Fanny Brawne, 330; on Keats’s artistic instincts, 255-6; on Keats’s eyes, 79; on Keats’ elation over a meeting with Wordsworth, 250; on Keats as invalid, 456; on Keats’s Museum reveries, 416; on the True cause of Keats’s distress in his illness, 534
Shakespeare, William, birth-place of, Keats’s visit to, 144
Coleridge’s Lectures on, 244
Influence seen in Endymion, 185, 189, 206, 217, 239
Keats compared with, 537, 543
Keats’s study of, 135-6, 430
Keats on his understanding of, 254
Line by, criticised by Wordsworth, 402
Lines of, on Endymion, 167
Middle age of, Keats on, 356
Negative capability of, 253
Plays of, see under Names
Sonnets of, Brown’s book on, 530-1; Keats’ appreciation of, 153
Use by, of the couplet compared with Pope’s, 105
Shakespearean quality of certain lines in Endymion, 217, 239
Shanklin, Keats’s stay at, and writings while there, 357 et sqq., 405
Sharp, William, new knowledge of Keats furnished by his Life of Severn, 545
on Keats at 21, 79
Shelley, Harriet, death of, 70
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 245
Anatomical studies of, 29
Appearance, voice and manner of, 70, 71
Challenge to, in Endymion, 189, 239
Characteristics, contrasted with those of Keats, 72-3
Debt of, to Endymion, 238, 239-40
Derivation and nature of the beliefs sung by, 220, 540-1
Devotion to, apparently incompatible with full justice to Keats, 540-1
Domestic difficulties of, and generosity during that time to Hunt, 69-70
Eccentricities of, 138 & n.
Exasperation of, with certain verse, 459
Friendship of, with Hunt, 69 et sqq., 515
Impression made on, by
the Alps, 237
Wordsworth’s Excursion, 233-4
Influence of, seen in Endymion, 235 et sqq.
and Keats, relations between, 69, 70, 71-3, 256, 481, 483
Keats’s fear of being influenced by, 236
Letter drafted by, to the Quarterly Review after the attack on Keats, 238
Letters from, to Keats, inviting him to Italy, 467, 501
from Switzerland, &c., compared with those of Keats, from the Lakes, &c., 275
to Mrs Leigh Hunt on his desire to take care of Keats in Italy, 483
Letters to, from Keats, on the invitation to Italy, 405; on his own unripe mentality, 411
Poems of, see under Names
Allegoric theme of Alastor, 171-2
Beauty of rhythm used by, 241
Cambridge enthusiasm for, 520, 527, 530
Echoes in, of Milton, 430
Freedom of, from faults, 50
Galignani’s edition of, 159 n. 2, 527 & n. 2
Gift of, to
Browning, effect of, 526
Keats, the reception of, 467
Influences moulding, 241
Lyrics in, 241
Posthumous, Hazlitt’s criticism of, 521-2
Rossetti’s enthusiasm for, 536
Referred to by Hunt in Young Poets, 54, 69
Use by, of rimed couplet, 241
Publishers of, 83, 131
Views of, on the Blackwood and Quarterly Reviews on Keats’s poems, 238, 315, 516
Death of (1822), 521, 522
on Endymion, 238, 467, 481; on Keats’s place among the Poets, 545; on the Lamia volume, 481-3; on study of the great Poets, 89
Shenstone, W., poems of, 19
Use by, of Spenserian stanza, 445
Shepheard’s Calendar, The, 19
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, pension of, 481
Sicilian Story, The (Procter), identical in subject with Isabella, 459
Sickness, Keats on, 263
Siddons, Mrs. on the Head of Christ in Haydon’s painting, 461
Sidmouth, Reynolds’s love of, 74
Siege of Corinth (Byron), tag from, used by Keats, 243
Skiddaw, Keats’s climb on, 274, 275-6
Sleep, invocations to, in Keats’s poems, 177
Sleep and Poetry (Keats), 53, 58, 75 n., 122
Adverse criticism on, 132
Affinities with lines in Endymion, 176 n., 198-9
Analysis of, with quotations, 115 et sqq.
Date discussed, 115
Echoes in, of the ‘Great Spirits’ sonnet, 121
Haydon on, 130
Ideas in, 448
Invocation in, to Sleep, 177
Metre, diction and subject of, 114-15, 124, 125
Pope-Boileau passage in, derided by Blackwood, 307; wrath of Byron on, 480-1
Published in Poems, 114, place of in the volume, 115
References in, to the intimacy with Hunt, 53-4
Relation of, to contemporaries, 125, and to the Elizabethans, 124-5
Use in, of the couplet, 124-5
‘Small, busy flames play through the fresh-laid coals’ (To My Brothers) sonnet (Keats), 53
Included in Poems, 90
Smith, Horace, friend of Haydon, 62
Keats’s acquaintance with, 245
Smith’s Standard Library, first separate collected edition of Keats’s poems issued in, 528 n. 2
Snook, John and Mrs, Keats’s visits to, 333, 491
Soames, William, 82
Solitude wrong for the Poet, Wordsworth’s doctrine on, endorsed by Keats and Shelley, 234 et sqq.
‘Some Titian colours touched into real life’ (Keats), from Epistle to Reynolds, 264
Somerset, the Keates of, 4 n.
Song of the Four Fairies (Keats), 350, 441
Song of the Indian Maiden in Endymion, fine quality of, 225; in style an Ode, 411
Song, A, about Myself (Keats), (‘There was a naughty boy’), 9-10
Song, A, of Opposites (Keats), 263, 389
Sonnet-beginnings of Dante, and of Keats, 92 & n. 1
Sonnet-forms employed by Keats, 86, 257
Sonnet on Poems (Hunt), 130-1
Sonnets by Keats, see under First Lines, and Titles
in Poems
Character of, 87
Classes or Groups
Autumn group, 90-1
Exceptions
Chapman sonnet, 87-8
Kosciusko sonnet, 91
Margate sonnet, 91
Leigh Hunt group, 90
Occasional, 87; the great exception, 87-8
Sex-chivalry group, 89
Forms employed, 86
Haydon pair, the, 91
Problems of selection, 91-2
Sonnet, written at the end of The Floure and the Lefe (Keats), 75
Sonnets on the Nile by Hunt, Keats, and Shelley, 256
Sonnets showing strain of Keats’s love affair, 343-4
So reaching back to boyhood: make me ships, lines in Endymion, 10
Sosibios, Vase of, Keats’s tracing of, 416 & n.
Sotheby, W., translator of Wieland’s Oberon, 86-7 & n., 309
Stanza invented by, 445
South, John Flint, on Lucas, 29
Southey, Robert, as Critic, 299
Poems by, 121
Political change of view of, 45
Hazlitt’s fierce criticism on, 137
Spaniards Inn, Nightingales near, as inspiration to Keats, 353
Spanish Fryar (Dryden), as model for In a drear-nighted December, 160
Specimens of Early English Metrical Romance (Ellis), the St Agnes Eve legend in, 398 n.
Spence’s Polymetis, picture in, as inspiration to Keats, 200, 231
Spenser, Edmund, Compound epithets of, equalled by Keats, 413
Keats’s delight in, 19-21, and influence of, seen in the poems, 20-1, 22, 23, 31, 85, 86, 132, 136, 171, 177, 185, 206, 209, 399
Lines of, on the Endymion story, 167
Platonism in the Hymns of, 237
Sonnet on, or in imitation of, by Keats, postponed, 259
Use by of the heroic couplet, 96
Spenserian Stanza unfit for satire, 445 Used by Chatterton, 369
Spirit, The, of the Age (Hazlitt), 251 n.
Spirit, The, of Man (ed. Bridges), Keats’s Meg Merrilees ballad included in, 280 n.
Staffa (Keats), on Fingal’s Cave, 292-3
Staffa, visited by Keats, 291-2
Stair Hole, 494
Stephens, Henry, fellow-student of Keats, 28
on the composition of ‘A thing of Beauty,’ 176 & n.
on the date at which Keats entered Guy’s, 26 n.
on Keats as Medical Student, 30-2
on Mrs George Keats, 271
Sterling, John, on Keats and his poems (1828), 526-7
on the poems of Tennyson and of Keats, 528
Story, The, of Rimini, poem (Hunt), 34, 44
Aims of, 47-9, 108-9
Criticism of, in Blackwood, 301-3
Haydon on, 64
Keats’s allusion to, 113
Lines quoted illustrative of the style, 48
Stranger, The, performed to bagpipes, Keats on, 288
Stratford-on-Avon, Keats’s visit to, 144
Styx, the, 429 n.
Subaltern, The (Gleig), 341
Suddard, Mary, critic, on Keats’s Unfelt, Unheard, Unseen, 157 & n.
Suovetaurilia Urn, at Holland House, as possible inspiration to Keats, 416 n.
Superb, H.M.S., and its Keats captain, 4
Surrey Institution, Hazlitt’s lectures at, 244, 300
Swan and Hoop Stables, birth-place of Keats, 3
‘Sweet Philomela,’ lines by Browne, echoed by Keats, 418 n.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, metrical magic of, and use by, of the Heroic measure, 161
on Keats’s poetry, 540, 541
Symbolism in Keats’s poems, 153-4; Wordsworth’s influence shown in, 233
Table Talk (Coleridge), on the meeting with Keats in 1819, 346-7
Tales, his own, and Brown’s, sent by Keats to his brother, 345
Tales of my Landlord (Scott), 303
Talfourd, Sergeant, 68
Talk, A, with Coleridge, in Cornhill for April, 1917, ed. Miss E. M. Green, cited, 347-8 & n.
Tassie, James, paste reproductions by, of antique gems, 92, 338
Taylor, John, Keats’s publisher, 7 n., 335 n., 513
Copyright of Endymion bought by, 486; further financial help from, 509
Letters to, from
Keats, on Cap and Bells, 380, 38, 445 & n.; corrections to Endymion, 260; Endymion’s confession, 180; on the journey to Italy, 485-6; on his thirst for knowledge, 265; on plans for work, 380-1, 445 n.
Woodhouse, on Keats’s pride, &c., 368
Severn (unfinished), on Keats’s condition in Rome, 506-8
Literary standing of, 133
Memorial volume on Keats projected, with Woodhouse, 529; the Woodhouse transcripts lent by, to Milnes, 533
on Endymion, 313
Taylor and Hessey, Messrs, Keats’s second publishers, 133, 348, 519
Keats’s applications to, for advances on Endymion, 140, 141
Notice appended by, to Hyperion, 427
Steadfast loyalty of, 313
Teignmouth, George and Tom Keats at, 244, Keats’s letters to, 245 et sqq.; Keats’s stay at, 266 et sqq., 429
Teniers, Wordsworth’s pun on, 250
Tennyson, Alfred, fame of, 537, 538, slow growth of, 526
Poems by
Alcaics, 38, 257
Influence on, of Keats, 527
Quarterly’s criticism on (1832), 527-8
Reminiscence of Keats, in Enid, 123
Thackeray’s allusion to, 537-8
Sterling’s appreciation of, 528
on the poetry of Keats, 550, and of Shelley, 541
Terror, the, effect of, on the Lake Poets, 45
Textual criticism, perversion in, 469
Thaddeus of Warsaw (Porter), 325
Theocritus, Echoes of, in Endymion, 201, and in the sonnet on Fame, 349-50 & n. 1
Endymion passage from, paraphrased by Fletcher, 168
Theogony of Hesiod, Cooke’s translation of, 428
‘There is a charm in footing slow,’ see Lines written in the Highlands
‘There was a naughty boy,’ see Song about Myself
‘Think not of it, sweet one, so,’ love-lyric (Keats), 157
‘This pleasant tale is like a little copse,’ sonnet on Floure and Lefe (Keats), 75
Thomson, James, poems of, 19
Influence of, on Keats, 23
Verse forms used in, 108, 445
‘Thought appalling,’ in one version of In drear-nighted December, possible source of, 160
Thoughts suggested on the banks of Nith ... (Wordsworth), 387 & n.
Thrush, song of, Keats’s pleasure in, 321, 459, and lines on, 260
‘Thus have I thought: and days on days have flown,’ Epistle to Cowden Clarke (Keats), 37
‘Thy thoughts, dear Keats, are like fresh-gathered leaves,’ sonnet by Reynolds, on Keats’s sonnet on The Floure and the Lefe, 75
Tighe, Mrs, poem of, on Cupid and Psyche, 19, 412
Times, The, 39
‘Time’s sea,’ sonnet, see To a Lady seen for a few moments at Vauxhall
Tintern Abbey (Wordsworth), ideas in paralleled in Sleep and Poetry, Bridges on, 126 et sqq.
Passage in, discussed by Keats, 146
‘Tion,’ or ‘shion’ termination, as used by Keats, 208
Titans, the, in Hyperion, sources of, 428 et sqq.
Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne picture, as inspiration for Keats, 231
Tiverton, the name Keat at, 4 & n., 5
To Ailsa Rock, sonnet (Keats), 284
To Byron, sonnet (Keats), 23, 91
To a Cat, sonnet (Keats), 256
To Celia (Jonson), metre of, 386
To Chatterton, sonnet (Keats), 23, 91
To G. A. W., sonnet (Keats), 89, 270
To Haydon, sonnet (Keats), (‘Great Spirits’), 65; echoes of, in Sleep and Poetry, 120; included in Poems, 91
To Haydon (sonnet), With a sonnet written on seeing the Elgin Marbles (Keats), 66-7
To Kosciusko, sonnet (Keats), 91
To a Lady seen for a few moments at Vauxhall, sonnet (Keats), 23, and the allied sonnet, 258-9
To the Ladies who saw me crowned, sonnet (Keats), 57
To Leigh Hunt, Esq., Dedication of Poems, sonnet (Keats), 83-90, 130-1
To M. A, at Parting, verses (Katherine Philips), Keats’s pleasure in, 150
Tom Cribb’s Memorial to Congress (Moore), 341
To my Brothers, sonnet (Keats), see Keen fitful gusts; Small, busy flames; To one who has been long in city pent
To the Nile, sonnet (Keats), 256
To one who has been long in city pent, sonnet (Keats), in Poems, 90
Tory critics, ferocity of, matched by Hazlitt and others, 137
To some Ladies, verses (Keats), metre of, 86
Townley (Bacchic) Vase, 416
Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript, satire, in Blackwood, 301, 302, 303, Scott on, 304
Trelawny, Edward John, 142; relations of, with Brown, 522, 523, and with Shelley, 521
‘Triumph of Death,’ picture by Orcagna, 446
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer), 391
Two Chambers of Thought, Keats on, 267, 448
Twopenny Post Bag, The (Moore), and the Prince-Regent, 43
‘Ugly Clubs,’ in Sleep and Poetry, 120-1 & n.
Underground journey theme in Endymion, 186 & n.
Undying Art, the great poets on, 417
‘Unfelt, unheard, unseen,’ stanzas (Keats), 157 & n.
Unknown beloved, the, in Endymion, 186, 187
‘Unseam,’ used by Keats and by Shakespeare, 218 & n.
Unwritten poems, Keats’ distress over, 534, 548
Vacation Exercise (Milton), echoed by Keats, 431; Keats’s knowledge of, 262; sprightly lines from, 109 n.; versification of, 101-2
Valentine, by Keats, for Miss Wylie, see ‘Hadst thou lived in days of old’
Valleys, Keats’s love of, and notes on, 152
Van Staveren’s edition of Auctores Mythographi Latini, Keats’s copy of, 447 & n.
Vathek (Beckford), echoes of, in Endymion, 184
Vegetable Diet, in Hunt’s circle, Wordsworth on, 250
Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare), beauties of, Keats on, 153
Verses written during Medical lecture (Keats), 33
‘Versifying Pet-Lamb,’ phrase of Keats, 356
Victorian poets, The Newcomes cited on, 537-8
Victory, parentage of, 429 n.
Villa Aldobrandini, sarcophagus from, 231 n.
Villa Gherardesca, Landor’s Florentine home, 530
Visconti, ——, and the Elgin Marbles, 59
Vita Nuova (Dante), sonnet-beginnings in, 92 & n. 1
Vivarès, ——, engraver of the “Enchanted Castle,”, 265 n.
Voltaire, called dull, by Wordsworth, 247
Head of, in Haydon’s picture, 462
Vowel sounds, Keats’s use of, 147, 209, 401-2
Voyage d’Anténor, parallel in, to passage in Endymion, 186 n.
Wade, Keats’s school-fellow, pranks of, 12
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Millais’ “Isabella” picture in, 538
Waller, Edmund, mythological poetry of, Jonson on, 220
Use by, of the heroic couplet, 102
Walsh, Captain Thomas, of the ‘Maria Crowther,’ kindness of, to Keats, 488-9, 499
Walthamstow, Fanny Keats at school at, 147, 337, 462
War, the world’s, as stimulus to Poetry, 547-8
Ward, T. H., Book by, containing Arnold’s measured judgment on Keats, 543 n.
Warton, Joseph, protest of, against moral essays in verse, 106, echoed by Keats, 165
Use by, of the Heroic couplet, 107
Warton, Thomas, Poet Laureate, pioneer of change in spirit of poetry, 106, 107
Warwickshire, the Keytes of, 4
Waverley novels, authorship unknown (1818), 279
Way, Mr, a great Jew-converter, 333
Way, G.L., translation by, of Le Grand’s Fabliaux, 33 & n. 1, 552
Webb, Cornelius, verses by, gibes at, in Blackwood, 76, 152, 301, 307
Weirdness and Terror, in Romantic poetry, early 19th century, 396
‘Welcome Joy, and Welcome Sorrow,’ see Song of Opposites
Well Walk, Hampstead, home in, of the Keats brothers, 141, friends frequenting and frequented, 141, 167
Keats’s life at (1817-18), 244; described by himself, 245 et sqq.
Wells, ——, of Redleaf, owner of Claude’s ‘Enchanted Castle,’ 265 n.
Wells, Charles, author of Joseph and his Brethren, association of, with Keats, 77
Hoax by, on Tom Keats, 77, 346
Wentworth Place, Hampstead, Keats’s life at, with Brown, 320 et sqq.
Wesleyan Place, No. 2, Kentish Town, Keats at, 463
West, ——, 263
‘What is there in the universal earth’ (Intercoronation sonnet by Keats), 57
What the Thrush said (Keats), 260, 424
‘When I have fears that I may cease to be,’ sonnet (Keats), date, subject and pendant of, 258-9
‘Where’s the Poet,’ fragment (Keats), 425
Whistlecraft, Orlando (J. H. Frere), 309
White Hart Hotel, Bath, 134
‘Who loves to peer,’ sonnet (Keats), see On Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini’
‘Why did I laugh to-night,’ sonnet (Keats), 343, text of, 344
Wieland, Endymion by, 309
Oberon by, translation of, by Sotheby, 86-7 & n., 309
Stanza used in, 445
Wilkie, Sir David, and Hunt, 43
Letter to, from Haydon, on Hunt and his Story of Rimini, 63-4
Wilson, Dr. John (‘Christopher North’) ferocious criticism by, 137, 298-9, 300, 301; on Lamia and Isabella, &c., 477-8, 527; on Shelley’s Prometheus, 477-8
Winchester, Keats and Brown at (1819), 360, 405; last good days spent there, 363-4, work done during the stay, 364
‘Wind, across the barley,’ Keats’s delight in, 80
Windermere, Keats’s first sight of, 273
Woburn, carven sarcophaguses at, 231 n.
Wolters, Paul, on Keats’s inspirations from the antique, 416 n.
‘Woman, when I behold thee flippant, vain,’ sonnet (Keats), 34; published in Poems, 89
Women, Keats’s attitude to, and idealisation of, 81, 89-90, 262, 271, 288, 318-20, 549; see also Brawne, Fanny
Woodhouse, Richard, friend of Taylor and of Keats, 134, 159, 160, 257 n., 340; loyalty of, 313
Letters of, to Taylor and another, on Keats, 368
List of Books in Keats’s Library, compiled by, 556-8
Memorial volume on Keats, planned by, with Taylor, 529, see Woodhouse Transcripts
Sonnet by, on ‘Poems,’ 131
on the Date of In a drear-nighted December, 158
on the Inspiration of the two sonnets When I have Fears, and Time’s Sea, and the lines From my despairing heart, 259 & n.
on Hyperion, 426-7; on Isabella, on Keats’s reading aloud and on the changes in Eve of St Agnes, 366-7; on Keats’s character and poetry, 368; on a Long talk with Keats (1819), 366 et sqq.
Woodhouse Transcripts in Crewe MSS., 259 n.
Lent by Taylor to Milnes, 533
Woollett, W., engraver of ‘The Enchanted Castle,’ 265 n.
‘Word-of-all-work, Love,’ phrase of George Eliot, 549 n.
Words, lax use of, and free modification of, in Endymion, 212-13
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 250, 290
Wordsworth, Mrs, 250
Wordsworth, Rev. Christopher, 245
Wordsworth, William, 244; absent on Keats’s visit to Rydal, 274
Appearance, voice, manner and mannerisms of, 79, 249
Bailey’s acquaintance with, 133
Characteristics of, 246, 249, 315
Conversation of, Hazlitt on, 251
Fame of, steady growth of, 526
Friendship of, with Haydon, 62, 462 & n.
Genius of, compared with that of Keats, 234, 267-8, 484; Bridges and the author on, 128-9
in relation to that of Milton, Keats on, 266
and Greek mythology, 125-6, 220
Head of, in Haydon’s picture, 462 & n.
Hunt’s verdict on, 44
Keats’s meeting with and relations with, 245 et sqq.
and Kingston, 246 et sqq., 251
Letter from, to Reynolds on his poem The Naiad, 64
Poetry of, 21, 196 n.
Disuse in, of the older verseforms, 108, 119
Influence of, on Keats, seen in
Endymion, 125, 126, 233-4
La Belle Dame, 350
Keats’s appreciation of, 145-6, and critical judgments on, 251-2, 263, 267
Local influences on, 2
Poems of humble life, attitude to, of the Hunt circle, 121, 348
Poems of tragic life, 121
Stanzas on Burns, countered by Keats in ‘Bards of Passion,’ 387
Political change of view of, 45
Reminiscence of, in the Solitude sonnet by Keats, 90
Sonnets
of God-speed to Scott, 525 n.
to Haydon, three, 65
Scotch tour of, with his sister, 290
Wilson’s attitude to, in Noctes Ambrosianæ, 300
on Keats’s Hymn to Pan, 227, 249; on the Poetic Revolution, 119; on the Sources of poetic Inspiration, 89; on Vowel-variation, 401-2
World-sadness, Keats on, and on the duty of relieving it, 448-9 et sqq.
Written on the day that Mr Leigh Hunt left Prison, sonnet (Keats), 23
Written in disgust of Vulgar Superstition, sonnet (Keats), 91
Wylie, Georgiana Augusta (afterwards Mrs George Keats, and later Mrs Jeffrey), 141; engagement of, to George Keats, 24, 34
Keats’s poems written for, 34, 86, 89, 269, 270
Marriage of, 268, 269, 271; second marriage, 331; hereafter see Jeffrey, Mrs, and Keats, George and his wife
Wylie family, 366
Young Poets, essay (Hunt)
Beginners of promise referred to, 54, 69
Keats’s Chapman Sonnet printed in, 54
‘You say you love, but with a voice,’ love-plaint by Keats, Elizabethan echo in, 157-8
‘Z’ Papers in Blackwood, gibes of at Hunt and Keats, 301-3, 307-8, 474; fatal duel fought over, 519
‘Zack,’ 4
Zanconi, Milanese prints by, 325 n.
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