INDEX.

A. Abbey, Guardian of Keats, 17, 19, 20, 29, 37, 39 “Adonais,” by Shelley, 39, 90, 98, 170 Æschylus, 186 “Agnes, The Eve of St.,” 107, 138; critical estimate of the poem, 182-184; 190, 206 “Alastor,” by Shelley, 82 “Annals of the Fine Arts,” 110 Ariosto, 113 Asclepiad, The, 24 Athenæum, The, 23 “Autumn, Ode to,” by Keats, 109, 192, 194 B. Bailey, Archdeacon Benjamin, 23, 77, 78, 112, 123; his description of Keats, 124; 130, 133, 141, 142, 145, 158, 159 “Belle Dame (La) sans Merci,” by Keats, 112, 182, 185, 190; quoted, 192, &c.; 200 Benjamin, Nathan, 157 Bion, Idyll on “Adonis,” by, 170 Blackwood, William, 91 Blackwood’s Magazine, 90; articles in by Z, on The Cockney School of Poetry, 91; 92, 93, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 103, 104, 153 Boccaccio’s “Decameron,” 107, 180, 181 Boileau, 70 Bojardo’s “Orlando Innamorato,” 114 Brawne, Fanny, engaged to Keats, 30, 32; Keats’s description of her, 33; 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45; Keats’s love-letters to her, 45-46, &c.; 53, 57, 60, 62, 102; her marriage to Mr. Lindon, 121; 130, 141, 143, 146, 147, 158, 160; poems to, 202 Brawne, Mrs., 29, 34, 36, 60, 61, 143 Brown, Charles Armitage, friend of Keats, 25; Keats’s verses on, 26; 27, 28, 29, 33, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 46, 48, 53; letter from Keats to, 55-56, 59, 108, 111, 112, 114, 116, 119; his death, 120; 136, 156, 157, 160, 206 Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy,” 108 Byron, Lord, 32, 102, 103, 105, 125, 128, 185 Byron’s “Don Juan,” 58 C. Caius Cestius, 118 “Calidore,” by Keats, 65, 165 “Cap and Bells, The,” by Keats, 113, 183 “Caviare” (pseudonym of Keats), 112 “Cenci, The,” by Shelley, 123 Champion, The, 115 “Chapman’s Homer,” sonnet by Keats, 66, 69, 165, 166, 203 Chartier, Alain, 112 Chatterton, 67, 68 Chaucer, 112 Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, picture by Haydon, 21, 36, 43, 126, 158 “Christmas Eve,” sonnet by Keats, quoted, 157 Clark, Mrs., 60 Clark, Sir James, 59, 60 Clarke, Charles Cowden, preceptor and friend of Keats, 14, 18, 19, 20, 25, 65, 66; his “Recollections,” 102; 104, 125, 126, 129, 140, 148 Clarke, Epistle to, by Keats, 67, 68 Clarke, Rev. John, Keats’s schoolmaster, 14 Coleridge, 25, 151, 164 Coleridge’s “Christabel,” 185 Colman, 156 Colvin’s, Mr., “Life of Keats,” 9, 35, 42 “Comus,” by Milton, 115 Cox, Miss Jane [“Charmian"], 30, 31, 32, 34, 143, 146 Cripps, 133 D. Dante, 112, 113 Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 23, 27, 29, 34, 39, 51, 53, 58, 103, 115, 120, 131, 133, 142, 150, 156, 160 Dilke, Mrs., 28 “Dream, A,” sonnet by Keats, 112, 204 Dryden, 70, 108, 190 Duncan, Admiral, 16 E. Edinburgh Review, 109, 117 Edouart, 35 “Endymion,” by Keats, 23, 24, 25, 54, 67, 72; details as to the composition of, 76; preface to, 79, 80; criticism upon in The Quarterly Review, 83; Keats’s feeling as to this and other criticisms, 91-106; 107, 108, 109, 122, 130, 137, 139, 141, 149, 152, 166; Shelley’s opinion of, 167; summary of the poem, 168-175; critical estimate of it, 176-180; 182, 186, 188, 189, 190 Examiner, The, 21, 68, 100 Eyre, Sir Vincent, 119 F. “Fancy, The,” by Reynolds, 22 Finch, Colonel, 39, 98 “Florence, The Garden of,” by Reynolds, 22, 107 Forman, Mr. H. Buxton, 18, 25, 33, 34, 35, 52, 123 G. Gentleman’s Magazine, The, 102 George IV., 21, 114 Gifford, William, 83, 95, 168 Girometti, 128 Gisborne, Mrs., 44, 98 Grafty, Mrs., 64 “Grasshopper and Cricket, The,” sonnets by Keats and Hunt, 166 “Grecian Urn, Ode on a,” by Keats, 109, 110, 192, 194-198 Guido, 155 H. Hammond, Surgeon, 18, 19 Haslam, William, 54 Haydn, 148 Haydon, Benjamin Robert, the painter, friend of John Keats, 13, 16, 18, 21, 36, 37, 44; his last interview with Keats, 54, 55, 64, 69, 76, 78, 99; his view as to Keats’s feeling regarding critical attacks, 100, &c.; 105, 110, 123, 126, 127, 128, 132, 133; his view of Keats’s character, 134-135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141, 142, 150, 152, 153, 155, 158 Hazlitt, 116, 152 Hilton, 128 Holmes, Edward, 54 Homer, 165 Hood, Mrs. (Miss Reynolds), 23 Hood, Thomas, 23 Hooker, Bishop, 32 Houghton, Lord, 41, 42, 58, 99, 114, 119, 125, 132, 136, 139 Howard, John, 32 Hunt, John, 20 Hunt, Leigh, 20, 21, 25, 44, 59, 66-69, 77, 83, 84, 85, 89-92, 97, 98, 100; his view as to Keats’s sensitiveness to criticism, 102; 110, 112, 114, 121, 122, 123; his description of Keats, 124; 125, 131, 134, 141, 142, 148, 150, 156, 158, 164, 166, 181, 207 Hunt, Leigh, dedicatory sonnet to, by Keats, 66 Hunt, Leigh, leaving prison, sonnet by Keats, 66 Hunt, Mrs., 44 Hunt, Thornton, 44 “Hyperion,” by Keats, 96, 97, 107, 108, 113, 137, 182; critical estimate of the poem, 185-189; recast of, 189; 190, 192, 206 I. “I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,” poem by Keats, 67; extract from, 74; 165 Indicator, The, 112, 114 “Indolence, Ode to,” by Keats, 202 “Isabella, or the Pot of Basil,” by Keats, 95, 107, 138; critical estimate of the poem, 180-182; 206 “Islam, The Revolt of,” by Shelley, 77, 82, 123 J. J. S., 93, 94 Jeffrey, Lord, 109 Jeffrey, Mr., 120 Jennings, grandfather of Keats, 12, 37 Jennings, Captain, 16 Jennings, Mrs., 16 “Joseph and his Brethren,” by Wells, 23 K. Kean as Richard Duke of York, critique by Keats, 93, 115 Kean, Edmund, 112 Keats, Fanny, sister of the poet, 13, 29, 38, 43, 45, 57, 62, 120, 121, 129, 148 Keats, Frances, mother of the poet, 12; her death, 16; 25, 126 Keats, George, brother of the poet, 13, 15, 18, 19, 25, 27, 30, 32, 37, 38, 64, 71, 95, 98; his view as to John Keats’s sensitiveness to criticism, 103; 111, 119, 120, 126, 136, 141, 142, 145, 146, 147, 150, 151, 155, 159, 160 Keats, George, Epistle to, by John Keats, 67, 68 Keats, John, his parentage, 12; his birth in London, October 31, 1795, 13; anecdote of his childhood, 13; goes to the school of Mr. Clarke at Enfield, 14; his studies, pugnacity, &c., 15; death of his parents, 16; apprenticed to a surgeon, Hammond, 18; leaves Hammond, and walks the hospitals, 18, 19; reads Spenser’s “Faery Queen,” and drops surgical study, 20; makes acquaintance with Leigh Hunt, Haydon, and others, 20, 21, 22; his first volume, Poems, 1817, 22; writes “Endymion,” 23; his health suffers in Oxford, 24; anecdotes (Coleridge, &c.), 25; makes a pedestrian tour in Scotland &c. with Charles Armitage Brown, 25-29; takes leave of his brother George and his wife, 27; his brother Tom dies, 29; lodges with Brown at Hampstead, 29; meets Miss Cox (“Charmian”) and Miss Brawne, and falls in love with the latter, 30-35; their engagement, 36; his friendship towards Haydon cools, 36, 37; at Shanklin and Winchester, 37, 38; sees his brother George again, and is left by him in pecuniary straits, 38, 39; the painful circumstances of his closing months, owing to illness, his love affair, and the depreciation of his poems, 40, 41; beginning of his consumptive illness, 41, 42; removes to Kentish Town, 43, 44; returns to Mrs. Brawne’s house at Hampstead, 45; his love-letters, 45-54; travels to Italy with Joseph Severn, 54-59; Severn’s account of his last days in Rome, 60, 61; his death there, February 23, 1821, 62, 63; his early turn for mere rhyming, 64; his early writings, and first volume, 65, 69; diatribe against Boileau, and poets of that school, 70; the publishers relinquish sale of the volume, 72; “Endymion,” and passage from an early poem forecasting this attempt, 73-76; details as to composition of “Endymion,” 76-79; prefaces to the poem, 79-83; adverse critique in The Quarterly Review, 83-91; question debated whether this and other attacks affected Keats deeply, 91-97; statements by Shelley, 97; and by Haydon, 99; other evidence, 102; conclusion as to this point, 105; Keats writes “Isabella,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,” and “Hyperion,” 107; “Lamia,” 108; and publishes the volume containing these poems, 1820, 108; other poems in the volume, 109; posthumous poems of Keats, “The Eve of St. Mark,” “Otho the Great,” “The Cap and Bells,” &c., 110-115; his letters and other prose writings, 115-117; Keats’s burial-place, 118-119; projects for writing his life, accomplished finally by Lord Houghton, 119; his relations with Hunt, Shelley, and others, 121-123; Keats’s small stature and personal appearance, 124-126; the portraits of him, 126-129; difficulty of clearly estimating his character, 129; his poetic ambition and intensity of thought, 130, 131; his moral tone, 132; his character (“no decision” &c.,) estimated by Haydon, 133-139; Lord Houghton’s account of his manner in society, 139; his suspiciousness, 141; and dislike of mankind, 142; his feeling towards women, 143-146; and towards Miss Brawne, 147, 148; his habits, opinions, likings, &c., 148-155; humour and jocularity, 155-157; negative turn in religious matters, 157-160; wine and diet, 160, 161; conclusion as to his character, 161, 162; his early tone in poetry, 164; critical estimate of his first volume, Poems, 1817, 165-166; of “Endymion,” 167, 168; narrative of this poem, 168-175; defects and beauties of “Endymion,” 176-180; critical estimate of “Isabella,” 180; “Eve of St. Agnes,” 182; “Eve of St. Mark,” 184; “Hyperion,” 185; “Otho the Great,” 189; “Lamia,” 190; “Belle Dame sans Merci” (quoted), 192; the five chief Odes, 194; analysis of the “Ode to a Nightingale,” 200; various posthumous lyrics, sonnets, &c., 202; Keats’s feeling towards women, as developed in his poems, 205; “swooning,” 206; sensuousness and sentiment, 207; comparison between Keats and Shelley, and final remarks, 208 Keats, Mrs. George, 27, 32, 95, 120 Keats, Thomas, father of the poet, 12; his death, 16; 126 Keats, Thomas, brother of the poet, 13, 15, 19, 23, 24, 25, 28; his death, 29; 37, 38, 39, 121, 135, 159, 160 “King Stephen,” by Keats, 73, 112, 190 Kotzebue, 150 L. Lamb, Charles, 78, 150 Lamb, Dr., 44 “Lamia,” by Keats, 108, 138, 151, 160; critical estimate of the poem, 190, &c.; 206 “Lamia, and other Poems,” by Keats (1820), 44, 97, 103, 108, 109, 110, 206 Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 61 Lemprière’s “Classical Dictionary,” 15 Lindon, Mrs. (see Brawne, Fanny) Llanos, 121 Lockhart, 91 Lucas, 19 Lucy Vaughan Lloyd (pseudonym of Keats), 114 Lyrics (various) by Keats, 204 M. Mackereth, George Wilson, 19 “Maia, Ode to,” by Keats, 202 “Mark, Eve of St.,” by Keats, 52, 110, 182; critical estimate of the poem, 184-185; 190 Marmontel’s “Incas of Peru,” 15 Mathew, George Felton, Epistle to, by Keats, 67; 157 Medwin’s “Life of Shelley,” 34 “Melancholy, Ode on,” by Keats, 109, 192, 194-199 Milton, 107, 135, 147, 159, 165, 186, 188 “Miserrimus,” by Reynolds, 23 Mitford, Miss, 101, 135 Moore, Thomas, 165 Morning Chronicle, The, 93 Murray, John, 102 N. Napoleon I., 32 “Narensky,” opera by C. A. Brown, 27 Newton, Sir Isaac, 151 “Nightingale, Ode to a,” by Keats, 103, 109, 160, 192, 194-202; analysed, 200-202; 204 “Nile,” Sonnets on the, by Keats, &c.; 110 O. Ollier, Charles, 21, 71 “Otho the Great,” by Keats, 38, 111, 112; critical estimate of, 189 P. “Paradise Lost,” 108, 175, 187 “Paradise Lost,” Notes on, by Keats, 115 Philostratus’s “Life of Apollonius,” 108 “Poems” (1817), by Keats, 23, 66; letter regarding this volume, by the publishers, 72; 122, 164-167 Pope, 70 Procter, Mrs., 125, 126 Purcell, 148 “Psyche, Ode to,” by Keats, 109, 192, 194-199 Q. Quarterly Review, The, 83; its critique of “Endymion” extracted, 83-91; 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 104, 153, 179 “Quixote, Don,” 120 R. R. B., 93 Raphael, 155 Rawlings, William, 16 Reynolds, John Hamilton, 22, 79, 95, 107, 115, 128, 156 Reynolds, Misses, 30, 31, 142, 145, 148 Reynolds, Mrs., 31 Rice, James, 38, 41, 147 Richardson, Dr., 25 Ritchie, 78 Robinson Crusoe, 15 Robinson, H. Crabb, 104 Rossetti, Dante G., 52, 184, 185, 190 S. Sandt, 150 Scott, Sir Walter, 91, 100 Severn, Joseph, 39; leaves England with Keats for Italy, 54; 59; his narrative of Keats’s last days, 60, &c.; 104, 118, 119, 125; his portraits of Keats, 127-129; 139, 143, 147, 148 Shakespeare (Macbeth), 15; (Hamlet), 52; 93, 114, 135, 147; (King Lear), 151; 155, 165 Shakespeare, Notes on, by Keats, 115 Shakespeare’s sonnets, Book on, by C. A. Brown, 27 Sharpey, Dr., 30 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 39, 58, 59, 71, 77, 82, 91, 96; his references to “Endymion,” and The Quarterly Review, 97-99; 102, 110, 119, 123, 125, 141, 147, 167, 179, 180, 185; comparison between Shelley and Keats, 208 “Sleep and Poetry,” by Keats, 67, 69; extract from, 70; 165 Smith, Horace, 68 Snook, 56 Sonnet by Keats (“Bright Star,” &c.), 114 Sonnets (various) by Keats, 164, 167, 203, &c. Spence’s “Polymetis,” 15 Spenser, Edmund, 66, 164, 165 Spenser’s Cave of Despair, picture by Severn, 55 Spenser’s “Faery Queen,” 20, 149 “Spenser, Imitation of,” by Keats, 64 Stephens, Henry, 19, 78, 132, 147 “Stories after Nature,” by Wells, 23 Swinburne, Mr. (on “Hyperion”), 186; 189, 199 T. Tasso, 165 Taylor and Hessey, 23, 72, 76, 78, 83, 93, 96, 109, 120, 128, 140, 146, 149, 152 Terry, 100 Thomson, James, 70 Titian’s “Bacchus and Ariadne,” 179 Tooke’s “Pantheon,” 15 Torlonia, 61 V. Virgil, 165 Virgil’s Æneid, 15, 20 Voltaire, 158 W. Webb, Cornelius, 92 Webster, 189 Wells, Charles, 23 Wilson, John, 91 “Woman, when I behold thee” &c., poem by Keats, quoted, 143 Wood, Warrington, 119 Woodhouse, Richard, 94, 149, 153, 188 Wordsworth, 21, 78; (“The Excursion,”) 152; 153, 156, 164, 179 Z. Z (probably Lockhart), 91, 92, 100.