INDEX
Note.—The first lines of all verses quoted in the letters are given here under the first word. An asterisk is prefixed to the names of those to whom letters are written, the letters themselves, as well as the addresses from which Keats wrote, being given under the heading “Letters.”
Abbey, Miss, [122]
Abbey, Mr., [52 and note], [58], [119], [123], [161], [162], [182], [185], [216], [218], [232], [268], [271], [273], [274], [284], [290], [294], [297], [311], [313], [315], [318], [331], [336], [347], [350], [354], [356], [359].
Referred to as “my guardian,” [267]
Abbey, Mrs., [51], [123], [197], [262], [271], [359]
Abbeys, the, [363]
Abbot, [231]
Abelard, Sandt, like a young, [300]
Academy, the Royal, [329]
Achievement, a man of, needs negative capability, [48]
Achilles, [21], [80], [180]
Adam’s dream (Paradise Lost, Bk. viii.), compared to imagination, [41], [42]
Adonais, [xix.]
Adonis, [263]
Adonis, Venus and, quoted, [45]
Agnes, St., Eve of, [217], [221], [280], [288], [333], [362 note];
an alteration in it censured, [360]
Agriculture, influence of, [287 seq.]
“A haunting Music sole perhaps and lone,” etc., [289]
“Ah, ken ye what I met the day,” etc., [127]
Aladdin, [223]
Alcibiades, [95]
Alexander, the emperor, [174]
Alfred (Exeter Paper), the, [171]
Alfred, King, [15], [80]
Alice Fell, [249]
“All gentle folks who owe a grudge,” etc., [137]
All’s Well that ends Well, quoted, [33 and note]
Alston’s “Uriel,” [76]
Altam and his Wife, by Ollier, [197]
Amena (and Wells), [239], [245]
America, George K. goes to, [109]
Americans distrusted, [312]
Anatomy of Melancholy, quoted, [296], [297]
Andrew, Sir [Aguecheek], misquoted, [103 and note]
Andrews, Miss, [341]
Annals of Fine Arts, contributed to, [272, note]
Ann or Anne, the maid, [209], [310]
Anthony, St., [309]
Anthony, Mark, compared to Buonaparte, [17]
Anthony and Cleopatra, [95];
quoted, [16], [17]
Apollo, [74], [82]
Apuleius, the Platonist, [259]
Archer, [190], [208]
Archimage, [249]
Archimago, [18]
Archimedes, [20]
Aretino, [313]
Ariadne, [223]
Ariosto, [95 note], [289], [313], [333]
Art, the excellence of, its intensity, [47]
Arthur’s Seat, [136]
“As Hermes once took to his feathers light,” [246]
Athenæum, Dilke connected with, [xviii.]
A[ubrey], Mrs. M[ary], verses to, by Mrs. Philips, [29]
Audubon, [291], [312], [341]
Audubon, Mrs., [341], [344]
Augustan age, [259]
Aunt, J. K.’s, 274. See [Mrs. Jennings]
Autograph originals of J. K.’s letters, [xii.] [xiii.]
Autumn, Ode to, [320 and note]
Ayr described, [133]
B., Miss. See [Brown, Miss]
Babel, the tower of, [23], [29]
Bacchus, [223]
Bacon, Lord, [174]
Bagpipe, effect of, [138]
*Bailey, Benjamin, [xii.], [26], [32], [44], [52], [53], [84], [97], [102], [109], [132], [135], [146], [164], [190], [355];
his character, [27], [54];
his curacy, [36];
his appreciation of Endymion, [31];
his love affairs, [224 seq.];
K.’s visit to him at Oxford, [19 and note]
Bailey, Mrs., [281]
Barbara Lewthwaite, [249]
“Bards of passion and of mirth,” [206]
Barley, Rigs of, by Burns, [133]
Barnes, [111]
Barnes, Miss, [231]
Bartolozzi, [195], [196]
Basil, Pot of, [113], [166], [171], [221], [280];
few stanzas of, written in folio Shakspeare, [101]
“Bathsheba,” by Wilkie, [76]
Beattie, [201]
Beaumont, Sir George, [329], [330 note]
Beaumont and Fletcher, [228]
Bedhampton, visit to, [216], [219], [221]
Beggar of Cumberland, [31]
Bellaston, Lady, [302]
Benjamin, Mr., [317]
Bensley, [10]
Bentley (J. K.’s landlord), [33 note], [153], [194], [219], [337]
Bentley, Mrs., [33], [153], [194], [219], [239], [337], [365]
Bentley children, the, [33], [103 note], [188]
Bertrand, General, [17 note]
Betty Foy, [249]
Bewick [J.], [56], [58], [96], [240]
Bible, the, [177], [225], [226]
Birkbeck, [175], [188], [194], [217], [226], [238], [257], [268], [342]
Birkbeck, the Misses, [247]
Blackwood, [60], [164], [167], [171], [194], [234], [323]
Boccaccio, [101];
tales from, [280]
Bonchurch described, [276], [279]
“Book, my” (the vol. containing Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, Hyperion, and the Odes), [362], [363], [368], [370]
Boxer (Mrs. Dilke’s dog), [26]
Box Hill ascended, [45]
Boys, the. See [Brown’s brothers]
Bradshaw, Richard, [119]
Braggadochio, [340]
Brawne, Fanny, [191 and note], [218], [244];
described, [196];
K.’s feelings towards, [371], [372], [373], [374];
letters to, [xii. note];
reasons for their being omitted, [xvii.]
*Brawne, Mrs., [191], [202], [219], [224], [239], [244], [349], [365]
[Brawne], Sam, [373]
Briggs, [341]
Brigs of Ayr, [133]
Britain, Little. See [Reynoldses, the]
British Gallery seen, [76]
British Museum, [329]
Brothers. See Keats, [George] and [Tom]
*Brown, Charles Armitage, [xviii.], [26], [33], [35], [48], [56], [58], [76], [82], [98], [119], [123], [128], [133], [136], [138], [139], [141], [145], [148], [165], [177], [191], [194], [195 note], [196], [198], [200], [209], [218], [219], [221], [240], [243], [244], [245], [264], [272], [273], [279], [281], [284], [286], [289], [292], [301], [306], [307], [309], [314], [319], [323], [325], [328], [332], [333 note], [334], [336], [344], [345], [347 and note], [348], [352], [356], [357], [358], [359], [360 note], [363], [369];
anecdote of, [295], [296];
as a draughtsman, [274], [351];
and Jenny Jacobs, [279];
a joke on, [316], [320];
his kindness, [234];
lends K. money, [274], [290];
lives with K., [187 note], [188], [331 note];
his odd dislikes, [324];
a story by, [219], [220], [224];
tour to Scotland with K., [110] [114-161];
writes a tragedy with K. See [Otho the Great]
Brown’s brothers, [239 note], [245]
Brown, John, [245]
Brown, Mrs. Septimus, [218]
B[rown], Miss, [196]
Bucke, Mr. (dramatic author), [241]
Buffon, [233], [346]
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, [21];
his Emblems, [309]
Buonaparte, [20], [173], [219];
compared to Mark Anthony, [17]
Burdett, Sir F., [174]
Burford Bridge visited, [40-45]
Burleigh, Lord, [361]
Burns, [130], [131], [132], [234];
spoilt by the Kirk, [124];
lines after visiting his country, [146];
after visiting his tomb, [117];
his misery, [134];
his native place described, [133]
Burns, Mrs., [118]
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy quoted, [296], [297]
Butler, [76], [102], [202]
Butler, Sarah, [102]
Byron, [33], [106], [163], [173], [198], [221], [226], [231], [240];
his Don Juan, [297];
Fourth canto of Childe Harold expected, [76];
Don Giovanni expected, [218]
Cæsar, Julius, [80]
Caleb Williams, [205]
Caliban, [7 note], [58], [245 note]
Cameron, Mrs., [155 seq.]
Canning, [345]
Canterbury, a visit to, projected, [18]
Cap and Bells, [331 note], [333 and note], [362 note]
Capital letters, peculiar use of, [xiv.]
Capper, [178], [181], [294]
Carisbrooke visited, [6 seq.]
Carlisle, Deist bookseller, [220], [299]
Carlisle visited, [117]
Cary’s Dante, [113]
“Castle, The Enchanted,” by Claude, [91 and note]
Castlereagh, [90], [345];
An Ode to, [335]
Cave of Despair, Spenser’s, a picture by Severn, [334 and note], [355]
Ceres, [142]
Chambers of Life—the infant or thoughtless Chamber, and the Chamber of Maiden thought, [107], [108];
the third Chamber, [109]
Champion, The, a number written by K., [47], [49], [52];
a sonnet by K. printed in, [8]
Chapman’s Homer, [363 and note]
Charlemagne, [118]
Charles. See [Wylie, Charles]
Charles I., [7]
Charles II., [90]
Charles Stuart, a “Jacobin” song on, [148]
Charlotte, Princess, [192]
“Charmian,” [165 note], [172], [173].
See [Cox, Miss Charlotte]
Chatterton, Endymion, dedicated to, [97];
Hazlitt on, [76];
writes the purest English, [313], [321]
Chaucer, [18], [103], [228], [333];
his Gallicisms, [313], [321]
Chesterfield, Lord, [355]
Chichester visited, [212], [217], [218]
“Chief of Organic Numbers!” etc., [62]
Christ Rejected (Haydon’s picture), [47], [94]
Christianity v. The Examiner, [10];
Shakspeare’s, [11]
Christians, a query concerning, [10]
Christie, [44]
Chronicle, The, [46], [171], [247];
John Scott’s defence of K. in, [167]
Cinderella, [21], [232]
Circe (in Endymion), [99]
Claret, a rhapsody concerning, [222], [223]
Clark, Dr., [370], [376]
*Clarke, C. C., [xvii.], [10], [219];
his influence on K., [xviii.]
Claude’s “Enchanted Castle,” [91 and note]
Cleopatra, [125], [173]
Clinker, Humphrey, [52]
Cobbett, [208], [218], [222], [355]
Cockney school, [39], [60 and note]
Cockney, the young, [xvi.]
Coleridge, [38], [72];
his limitations, [48];
his talk, [244]
Collins, Hazlitt on, [76]
Colnaghi, [300]
Colvin, S., allowed H. Buxton Forman to use autographs in his possession, [xii. note];
his life of K. in Men of Letters, [xi.], [331 note], [347 note]
Commonplace people, Hazlitt on, [37]
Comus, [89], [108]
Constable, the bookseller, [60]
Continent, K.’s thoughts of visiting the, [18]
Cook, Captain, [346]
Cordelia,
[80]
Coriolanus, Hazlitt on, [229]
Corneille, [95 and note]
C[ornwall] B[arry], Mr., [353], [354]
Country, the, K.’s opinion of, [209];
K. thinks of settling in, [4]
Covent Garden Tragedy [Retribution, or the Chieftain’s Daughter], an article on, [49 and note]
Cowes visited, [7]
Cowper, [72];
as a letter-writer, [xiv.]
Cox, Miss Charlotte, [165 and note], [172 and note], [173].
See [“Charmian”]
Crabbe, [72], [232]
Cripps, [32], [37], [40], [41], [44], [52], [56], [62], [71];
introductions to Haydon, [32], [53]
Criticism, K.’s independence of, [167]
Croft, Dr., [72]
Cromwell, [174]
Crusoe, Robinson, [26], [338]
“Crystalline Brother of the belt of Heaven,” etc., [46]
Cumberland Beggar, the, [31]
Dance, a Highland, described, [116]
Dante, [95 note], [113], [145], [214], [246], [313]
Davenports, the, [220], [231], [239], [348]
David, [25], [325]
“Dear Reynolds! as last night I lay in bed,” etc., [91]
Death, K.’s thoughts of, when alone, [112]
Deist, The, [299]
Dennet, Miss, a Columbine, [51]
“Dentatus,” Haydon’s picture, [87]
Devereux, [362]
Devon, Duke of, [72]
Devonshire described, [75], [79], [80], [83], [85], [91], [95], [97], [98], [101];
like Lydia Languish, [83]
Dewint, [114]
Dewint, Mrs., [114]
*Dilke, Charles Wentworth, [xii. note], [9], [26], [31], [47], [48], [56], [59], [76], [81], [128], [146], [158], [195 note], [200], [202], [203], [208], [239], [245], [266], [269], [292], [296], [327], [340], [343], [372], [374];
a capital friend, [51];
takes the Champion, [51], [58];
his character, [314];
his devotion to his son, [222], [240], [241], [295];
editor follows his dates, [xiii.];
a “Godwin Methodist,” [314];
a “Godwin perfectibility Man,” [175];
ill, [170], [348];
neighbour to K., [187 note]
Dilke, Charley, [222], [224], [240], [241], [264], [279], [292], [295], [314], [360]
Dilke, Mrs., [4], [8], [9], [26], [31], [51], [164], [170], [183], [189], [198], [202], [209], [210], [213], [217], [223], [224], [240], [262], [264], [269], [274], [292], [325], [328], [332], [336], [340], [349], [354], [357], [359], [360], [365], [374];
her brother, [359]
Dilke, William, [26 and note]
Dinah, Aunt, [6]
Diocletian, [174]
Diomed, [80]
Dolabella (in Anthony and Cleopatra), [16]
Don Juan, [297]
Drawing of K., a, [2 and note]
Drewe family, the, [197]
Drewe, George, [198]
Drury Lane Pantomime [Don Giovanni], [49 and note], [55]
Dryope (in Endymion), [78]
Du Bois, [47], [198]
Dunghill, Duchess of, [126]
Duns, besieged by, [19], [28]
Dürer, Albert, [330]
Edinburgh Review, the, [37], [39], [40], [113], [190], [301], [302], [326]
Edmund Ironside, [80]
Elements, the, regarded as comforters, [25]
Elizabeth, Queen, Holinshed’s, [333];
her Latin exercises, [355]
Elizabethans, compared with moderns, [68]
Ellenborough, Lord, [47]
Ellipsis, recommended by Haydon, [2]
Elliston, [335], [336]
Elmes, James, [272 note], [274]
Emblems, the, of Bunyan, [309]
Endymion [“I stood tiptoe upon a little hill”], [3 note]
Endymion, [27], [34], [35], [161], [302], [366].
First book begun, [17];
prospects of, [57];
in the press, [63];
readings in, [64]:
second book copied, [71];
proofs of, [72]:
third book, progressing, [31];
finished, [33]:
third and fourth books, copied, [78]:
fourth book, quoted, [84];
finished, [88].
Alterations suggested by Taylor, [77];
anxiety to get it printed, [78];
appreciated by Bailey, [31];
dedicated to Chatterton, [97];
described, [168];
cheque sent to author of it, [192], [199];
engravings by Haydon for it, [57];
referred to by K. as a pioneer, [77];
admired by the Miss Porters, [192], [193];
the preface to it, [88], [96], [97], [98];
readings in, [99];
called slipshod, [167 and note];
the story of it told to Fanny K., [22]
Enfield, school at, [xviii.]
English, Chatterton’s is the purest, [313]
Enobarb (in Anthony and Cleopatra), [16]
Erasmus, [10], [17]
Esau, [68]
Euclid, [29], [177]
Eustace, [163]
Evadné, by Sheil, [231], [232]
Evans, Sir Hugh (in Merry Wives), [104 and note]
Eve, [103], [255]
“Ever let the Fancy roam,” etc., [203]
Examiner, The, [17], [40], [44], [47], [51], [194], [208], [219], [234], [328];
its defence of K., [171];
K.’s notice of Reynolds’ Peter Bell in it, [248], [249];
v. Christianity, [10]
Excursion, Wordsworth’s, one of the three good things of the age, [53], [54]
Fagging at schools, [178]
Fairies, Chorus of, [251]
Falstaff, [77], [351]
Fame, sonnets on, [258]
“Fame like a wayward girl will still be coy,” etc., [258]
Family letters, [xi.]
Fanny. See [Keats, Fanny]
“Far, far around shall those dark-crested trees,” etc., [115]
Fazio, [72]
Fenbank, Mr. P., [199]
Fielding, [52], [200]
Fingal’s Cave described, [150]
Fitzgerald, Miss, [193]
Fladgate, Frank, [133]
Flageolet, not admired, [161], [162]
Fleet Street household (i.e. Taylor’s. See p. [286]), [54]
Fletcher, Mrs. Philips, compared to, [31]
Fletcher and Beaumont, [228]
Flirting, [173]
Florence, A Garden of, by Reynolds, [67 and note]
Florimel, [248], [249]
Foliage, by Leigh Hunt, [11 note];
reviewed in the Quarterly, [113]
Forman, H. Buxton, his edition, [xii.];
letters to Fanny K. printed in this volume by his permission, [xii. note]
Fortunatus’s purse, [32]
“Four Seasons fill the measure of the year,” etc., [81]
Framptons, the, [238]
Francesca, [58], [246]
Franklin, Benjamin, [175]
French dramatists, [95 and note]
French language inferior to English, [23]
Frogley, Miss, [192]
Fry, [290]
Fuseli, [306], [330]
G. minor (see [Wylie, Georgiana]), [192]
Gaelic talked, [140]
Gattie, [197]
Gay, [106]
Genesis, [26]
Genius, of K. in prose writing, [xi.];
men of, have not individuality, [41]
George. See [Keats, George]
George, little (see [Wylie, Georgiana]), [200], [201]
George II., [362]
Gertrude of Wyoming, [342]
Ghosts, [44]
Gibbon, [76]
Gifford, [220], [226 seq.], [229];
his attack on K., [192]
Giovanni, Don, by Byron, expected, [218]
Gipsies, [37]
Gipsy, The, of Wordsworth, [37]
Glasgow visited, [131], [132]
Glaucus (in Endymion), [99]
Gleig, [xix.], [35], [36], [44], [63], [82], [113];
described, [35 note]
Gleig, Miss, [225]
Gliddon, [290]
Godwin, [175], [205], [206], [314];
his Mandeville, [51], [286];
his Caleb Williams and St. Leon, [205]
Gray, [106];
as a letter writer, [xiv.];
Hazlitt on, [76]
“Great spirits now on earth are sojourning,” etc., [2]
Greek, K. determines to learn, [101]
Green, Mr., [244]
Griselda, [245]
Grover, Miss, [339]
Guido, [201]
Gyges’s ring, [32]
H., Miss, [231], [232]
Hamlet, [80], [106]
Hammond, [309]
Handwriting of K., [xiv.]
Happiness not expected, [38]
“Happy happy glowing fire,” etc., [251]
Harold, Childe, [68]
Harris, Bob, [51], [58]
Hart, [340]
Haslam, [51], [56], [159], [178], [181], [187], [188], [189], [195], [197], [200], [202], [209], [210], [219], [224], [228], [235], [264], [270], [284], [307], [342], [344], [369], [373], [375];
his father’s death, [238], [266];
a kind friend, [269], [339];
his “lady and family,” [340];
in love, [293];
“is very Beadle to an amorous sigh,” [333];
a message to, [377]
Hastings, Lady, met at, [179], [223]
*Haydon, [xii. note], [2 and note], [5], [8], [9], [39], [41], [47], [54], [58], [195], [197], [198], [201], [240], [272], [340], [343], [355], [356], [361];
his autobiography, [50 and note];
his “Christ” contained a portrait of K., [16];
and is “tinted into immortality,” [94];
his “Dentatus,” [87];
on Elgin marbles, [75];
his eyes weak, [219];
on French dramatists, etc., [95 and note];
his “Life and Love,” [330 and note];
loved as a brother, [15];
his pictures one of the three glories of the age, [53], [54];
his portrait, [6];
quarrels with Hunt, [33], [34], [35], [56], [61];
and with Reynolds, [55], [56];
discovers a seal of Shakspeare, [85];
“this glorious Haydon and all his creation,” [1];
his “Solomon,” [214]
Hazlewood, [178], [181], [294]
Hazlitt, [3], [96], [101], [106], [107], [109], [111], [179], [191], [197], [205], [218], [326];
his prosecution of Blackwood, [164];
his essay on commonplace people, [37];
the only good damner, [87];
his lectures, [64], [72], [76], [332];
his letter to Gifford quoted, [226 seq.], [229];
on Shakspeare, [16], [56], [58];
his review of Southey, [10 and note], [16];
his depth of taste, [53], [54];
his Round Table, [31 and note]
Hazlitt, Mrs., [218]
Heart of Midlothian (an opera), [249]
Heart’s affections and beauty of Imagination the only certain things, [41]
Hebrew, the study of, advised, [24]
“He is to weet a melancholy Carle,” etc., [244]
Helen, [125]
“Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port,” etc., [65]
Hengist, [90]
Henrietta Street. See
[Wylies, the]
Henry. See [Wylie, Henry]
Herculaneum, a piece of, [83]
“Here all the summer could I stay,” etc., [85]
Hermes, [223]
“Hermia and Helena,” by Severn, [265]
Hesketh, Lady, [xv.]
*Hessey, [xi.], [53], [100], [114], [164], [177], [184 note], [199], [282], [286]
Hessey, Mrs., [88]
Hesseys, the. See [Percy Street]
Hill, [47]
Hilton, [114], [240]
Hindoos, [257]
Hobhouse, [208]
Hodgkinson, [271], [284], [297], [363]
Hogarth, [107], [200], [351]
Hogg, [234]
Holbein, [361]
Holinshed’s Queen Elizabeth, [333]
Holts, one of the, [218]
Homer, [80], [95 note], [101], [134], [144];
Pope’s, [13], [14];
Chapman’s, [363 and note]
Hone, [47], [51], [220]
Honeycomb, Mr., [28]
Hook, [309]
Hooker, Bishop, [173]
Hopkinses, the, [38]
Hoppner, [189], [190]
Horace, [353]
Houghton, Lord, [xix.], [289 note], [347 note];
his Life of K., [xii.]
“How fever’d is that Man who cannot look,” etc., [258]
Howard, John, [173]
Hubbard, Mother, [177]
Hugh, Parson, [104 and note]
Humour superior to wit, [47]
Hunger and sleepiness, [122]
Hunt, Henry, his triumphal entry into London, [299], [329]
Hunt, John, [17], [28], [58], [67 note], [72], [191]
*Hunt, Leigh, [xviii.], [2 note], [3], [9], [49], [51], [63], [68], [72], [76], [96], [174], [177], [179], [191], [232], [239], [240], [248], [249], [307], [343], [353], [354], [365], [366], [374];
attacked, [39], [113];
“Cockney school articles” thought to be by Scott, [60 and note];
criticises Endymion, [57], [58];
his Foliage, [11 note];
damned Hampstead, [87];
his influence on K., [xviii.];
K. his élève, [35];
K. moves near to him, [360 note];
K. stays in his house, [363 note], [364];
his kindness, [368];
his lock of Milton’s hair, [62];
his money difficulties, [218];
his Nymphs, [11];
his sonnet on the Nile, [72];
his paper on Preternatural History, [234];
his Literary Pocket-book, [190], [197];
his quarrel with Haydon, [33], [34], [35], [56], [61];
his self-delusions, [15]
Hunt, Mrs., [13], [51], [55]
Hyperion, [331 note], [362 note];
begun, [194], [195];
not continued, [221];
continued, [280];
given up because of its Miltonic inversions, [321]
Iago, [184]
Idleness, [278]
“If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,” etc., [261]
“I had a dove and the sweet dove died,” [207]
“I have examin’d and do find,” etc., by Mrs. Philips, [29]
Imagination, [41], [42], [43], [108];
the rudder of Poetry, [34];
its beauty and the heart’s affections alone certain, [41];
compared to Adam’s dream (Paradise Lost, Book viii.), [41], [42]
Imogen, [24], [184]
Indolence, Ode on, [235 and note];
The Castle of, by Thomson, [234]
Invention, the Polar Star of Poetry, [34]
Iona [Iconkill] visited, [148], [149]
Ireby, [117];
country dancing school at, [116]
Ireland visited, [124]
Irish and Scotch compared, [126], [129]
Isabella, or The Pot of Basil, [109], [113], [362 note]
Isis, K.’s boating on the, [28]
Italian, studied, [101], [289];
the language full of poetry, [23]
Italy, [xix.]
“It keeps eternal whisperings around,” etc., [8]
Jacobs, Jenny, and Brown, [279]
Jacques, [68]
James I., [361]
Jane, St. See [Reynolds, Jane]
Jean, Burns’, [134]
Jeffrey, [xii.], [xix.]
Jemmy, Master. See [Rice, James]
Jennings, Mrs., [290], [318];
referred to as “my aunt,” [274]
Jessy of Dumblane, [160]
Jesus and Socrates, [236]
Joanna, To, by Wordsworth, [116 note]
John (see [Reynolds]), [27], [33], [162]
John, St., [325]
Jonson, Ben, [247 note]
Journal-letters, [xii.]
Jove better than Mercury, [75], [97]
Judea, [11]
Juliet, [24], [135]
Junkets, i.e. John Keats, [13]
Kean, [46], [48], [84], [131], [191], [226], [241], [280], [284], [285], [286], [291], [319], [336], [340]
Keasle, [189]
Keasle, Miss, [170], [189], [308]
Keasle, Mrs., [189]
Keats, Emily (daughter of George K.), [294], [319], [339], [344], [347];
her birth announced, [273]
Keats family, letters to, [xi.]
*Keats, Fanny, [xii. note], [6], [51], [58], [153], [158], [169], [177], [197], [223], [228], [292], [371], [375], [377];
she is kept from K. by the Abbeys, [145], [218];
the story of Endymion is related to her, [22]
Keats, Frances. See [Keats, Fanny]
*Keats, George, [6], [8], [9], [10], [13], [14], [17], [22], [23], [34], [38], [49], [52], [84], [101], [109], [112], [114], [119], [132], [142], [152], [153], [161], [166], [187], [213], [217], [263], [265], [268], [270], [273], [275], [277], [284], [285], [320], [337], [340], [341], [343], [344], [345], [346], [347], [349], [358], [359], [361], [362], [369], [375], [376], [377];
his affairs troublesome, [324], [331], [336];
he goes to America, [109], [182];
he visits England, [328 and note];
he returns to America, [358];
he is more than a brother to John K., [158];
he copies John K.’s verses, [342];
he is devoted to his little girl, [339];
bad news from him, [321], [322], [332];
J. K.’s sonnet to him, [72]
Keats, Georgiana. See [Wylie, Georgiana]
Keats, John, his genius in prose-writing, [xi.];
his Life by Colvin, [xi.], [331 note];
and by Lord Houghton, [xi.];
the characteristics of his letters, [xiv. xv.];
his character, “the young Cockney,” Shakspeare in his blood, [xvi.], [14];
his reticence about Fanny Brawne, [xvi.];
the influence of Haydon, Leigh Hunt, and Charles Cowden Clarke over him, [xviii.];
his school at Enfield, [xviii.];
his portrait, [2];
his thoughts of settling in the country, [4];
he writes in the Champion, [8], [47], [49];
he cannot exist without poetry, [9], [165];
“why I should be a poet,” [12];
his money troubles, [14], [19], [28];
he reads and writes eight hours a day, but cannot compose when “fevered in a contrary direction,” [14];
his morbidity, [15], [38], [110], [111];
his excitement during composition, [18];
his thoughts of visiting the country, [18];
he writes with energy, [23];
he regards the elements as comforters, [25];
he projects a romance, [32];
he expects to be called Hunt’s élève, [35];
he does not expect happiness, [38];
his article on “Covent Garden,” [49 and note];
his views of religion, [81], [256];
his plan of life, [94];
he regards the public as an enemy but does not write under its shadow, [96];
he studies Italian, [101], [289];
he determines to learn Greek, [101];
his thoughts of death when alone, [112];
is noticed in the Edinburgh and Quarterly, [113];
his ill-health, [122], [347-377];
his independence of criticism, [167];
he expects to be among the English poet after his death, [171];
his defence by Reynolds, [171];
his declamations against matrimony, [180];
his pleasure in solitude, [181];
he talks of giving up writing, [184];
a sonnet and cheque to him, [192], [199];
his notion of a rondeau, [207];
his thoughts of the country, [209];
his notice of Reynolds’ Peter Bell, [248], [249];
he feels himself the protector of Fanny K., [216];
“he is quite the little poet,” [219];
his rhapsody about claret, [222], [223];
his scorn of parsons, [221 seq.], [233], [268];
he talks of turning physician, [233];
his portrait by Severn, [274];
his change of character, [309];
his distrust of Americans, [312];
his feelings towards Fanny Brawne during his last illness, [371], [372]
*Keats, Tom, [8], [9], [11], [44], [47 note], [79], [82], [84], [85], [87], [94], [100], [112], [135], [158], [159], [165], [169], [175], [177], [179], [180], [181], [182], [183], [185], [215], [301 note], [349];
his death, [187 and note];
his illness, [43], [49], [63], [103], [161], [162], [164], [168], [186], [187];
his belief in immortality, [188];
his likeness to Fanny K., [397];
his low spirits, [98];
Wells’ treatment of him, [239], [245]
Kelly, Mr., [124]
Kemble, [198]
Kent, Miss, [13], [51]
Keswick visited, [114], [115]
Kingston, [47], [50 and note], [53], [95], [196];
his criticisms, [98]
Kirkman, [190], [208], [209];
his uncle William, [208]
Kneller, Sir G., [361]
Knox, John, [220]
Kotzebue, [241], [300]
La Belle Dame sans Merci, [250]
Lacon, Fool, [339]
Lady of the Lake, [136]
Lakes, the, described, [114], [115]
Lamb, Charles, [39], [191], [316], [361];
his practical jokes, [50]
Lamia, [277], [280], [294], [362 note];
finished, [288];
quoted, [289 and note]
Landseer, [50], [58]
Laon and Cythna, by Shelley, [48 and note]
Launce (in Two Gentlemen of Verona), [4]
Lear, King, [47], [58], [63], [80];
a sonnet on, [59]
Leech-gatherer, the, [31]
Leicester, Sir John, [240]
Lely, Sir Peter, [361]
Leon, St., by Godwin, [205]
Letters, those to Fanny Brawne omitted, [xvii.];
frivolous classification of, [106], [163];
characteristics of K.’s, [xv.];
Dated from, Burford Bridge, [40-44];
Carisbrooke, [6];
Carlisle, [116];
Donaghadee, [124];
Featherstone Buildings, [48];
Fleet Street (Wells’), [71];
Hampstead (Well Walk), [33-40], [46], [53-67], [71-78], [109-114], [161-187];
Hampstead (Wentworth Place), [187-273], [331-359];
Keswick, [114];
London, [1-4], [19], [39];
Margate, [10-17];
the Maria Crowther, [370];
Mortimer Terrace (Leigh Hunt’s), [363];
Naples, [372-374];
Oxford, [19-32];
Rome, [376];
Scotland, [118-123], [125-158]
Auchen-cairn, [119], [123];
Ballantrae, [127];
Cairndow, [136];
Dumfries, [118];
Girvan, [129];
Glasgow, [131];
Inverness, [158];
Inverary, [138], [142];
Island of Mull, [144-147];
Kilmelfort, [139];
Kingswells, [130], [133];
Kirkcudbright, [120];
Kirkoswald, [129];
Letter Findlay, [153];
Maybole, [130];
Newton-Stewart, [122], [123];
Oban, [141], [148];
Stranraer, [125];
Shanklin, [275-277];
Southampton, [4];
Teignmouth, [78-103];
Wentworth Place (Mrs. Brawne’s), [364-370];
Wesleyan Place, Kentish Town, [360-362];
Winchester, [280-328].
To Bailey, Benjamin, [33], [36], [39], [40], [61], [78], [109], [111], [142], [280];
Brawne, Mrs., [372];
Brown, Charles, [325], [327], [360], [368], [370], [374], [376];
Clarke, Charles Cowden, [1], [2];
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, [40], [163], [277], [322], [328], [354], [359];
Elmes, James, [272];
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, [1], [2], [13], [32], [53], [85], [94], [211], [213], [214], [215], [267], [274], [328], [363], [367];
Hessey, James Augustus, [167];
Hunt, Leigh, [10];
Keats, Fanny, [21], [118], [161], [162], [166], [182], [183], [185], [187], [213], [215], [216], [262], [263], [264], [265], [268], [270], [271], [272], [273], [275], [283], [331], [334], [335], [337], [347], [348], [350], [352], [353], [355], [356], [357], [358], [362], [363], [364], [368];
Keats, George and Georgiana, [168], [187], [217], [290];
Keats, George and Thomas, [4], [46], [48], [54], [57], [71], [75];
Keats, Georgiana, [338];
Keats, Thomas, [114], [123], [127], [136], [147], [153];
Reynolds, Jane, [24], [162];
Reynolds, John Hamilton, [3], [4], [6], [28], [44], [65], [67], [73], [82], [90], [96], [98], [100], [103], [132], [165], [276], [282], [319], [352];
Reynolds, Mariane and Jane, [19];
Reynolds, Mrs., [211];
Rice, James, [88], [186], [335], [350];
Severn, Joseph, [265], [332], [334];
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [365];
Taylor, John, [53], [58], [64], [71], [77], [99], [114], [212], [281], [286], [333], [360], [367];
Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, [17], [19], [78], [88];
Woodhouse, Richard, [210];
Wylie, Mrs., [158]
Lewis, [177], [189], [197], [219], [222]
Lewis, David, [349]
Life, a palace with chambers, [107], [109];
a pleasant life, [73];
that projected by J. K., [94];
of a man worth anything is an allegory, [226]
Lisle, [286]
Listen, [198]
Little, [106]
Little Britain. See [Reynoldses, the]
Llanos, Señor, [xix.]
“Lloyd, Lacy Vaughan,” i.e. J. K., [362 and note]
Lord of the Isles, [136]
Lover, the, a ridiculous person, [293]
Lucifer, [25]
Lucius, Sir, [210]
Ludolph (in Otho the Great), [319], [335]
Lyceum, [295]
Lycidas, [89]
Lydia Languish, [83]
Macbeth, [288]
Machiavelli, [313]
Mackenzie, [201]
Macmillan’s Magazine, [xii. note]
Macready, [335]
Magdalen Hall visited, [19 note], [22];
a beautiful name, [84]
Mahomet, [159]
Maiden-Thought, the second chamber of life, [107]
Maid’s Tragedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher, [228]
Man is like a hawk, [236];
is a poor forked creature, [254-257]
Mancur or Manker, [208], [245]
Mandeville, by Godwin, [51], [286]
Margate visited, [10-17]
Maria Crowther (the ship in which K. went to Naples), [370], [371 note]
Mariane. See [Reynolds, Mariane]
Mark, St., Eve of, [221];
quoted, [302], [303]
Marlowe, [247 note]
Martin, [31], [44], [53], [194], [245], [249], [292], [293], [354]
Martin, Miss, [225], [293]
Mary Queen of Scots, [6], [32]
Massinger, [324]
Mathew, Caroline, [208]
Mathew, Mrs., [208]
Matthew (Wordsworth’s), [68]
Matthews, the comedian, [297]
Matrimony, K. declaims against, [180]
Maw the apostate, [219]
Measure for Measure quoted, [11]
Medicine, the study of, [104]
Meg Merrilies’s country, [119], [123]
Mercury, [75], [344]
Mermaid lines, [70], [71 and note]
Merry Wives of Windsor quoted, [104 and note]
Methodists exposed by Horace Smith, [72]
Millar, [339]
Millar, Mary, [191], [218], [219], [248], [308], [339];
her suitors, [189], [210]
Millar, Mrs., [170], [176], [178], [248]
Milman, [87]
Milton, [101], [106], [142], [174], [175], [263], [355];
anecdote of, [88], [89], [90];
his Hierarchies, [283];
his influence shown in Hyperion, [321];
his Latinised language, [313], [314];
a picture of him, [6];
his philosophy, [108];
quoted, [42], [237];
K.’s verses on his hair, [62];
compared to Wordsworth, [105]
Minerva, [344];
her Ægis, [2]
Monkhouse, [50], [229], [274]
Montague, Lady M. W., [29]
Moore, Thomas, [109], [193], [202], [232];
his Tom Cribb’s Memorial to Congress, [228]
Moore’s Almanack, [21], [80], [346]
Morbidity of temperament, [15]
Morley, John, [xi.]
“Mother, your” (in K.’s American letters). See [Wylie, Mrs.]
“Mother of Hermes! and still youthful Maia!” etc., [105]
Mountains, effect of, [144]
Mozart, [193], [194]
Muggs, Nehemiah, by Horace Smith, [72]
Mulgrave, Lord, [330 and note]
Murray, [312]
Naples Harbour, [372 seq.]
Napoleon, [174]
“Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies,” etc., [166]
Negative capability needed by men of achievement, [48]
Nelson, [98]
Neville, Henry, [192], [193]
Nevis, Ben, described, [153]
Newport visited, [7], [8]
Newton, Rev. John, [xv.]
Nicolini, the singer, [20]
Niece. See [Keats, Emily]
Nightingale, Ode to, [91 note], [272 note], [342]
Nile, sonnets on, [72]
Nimrod, [26]
Niobe, [38]
Northcote, [240]
Norval, [337]
“No! those days are gone away,” etc., [69]
“Not Aladdin magian,” [150]
“Not as a swordsman would I pardon crave,” etc., [319]
Novello, [191], [193], [195]
Novello, Mrs., [197]
Nymphs, The, by Leigh Hunt, [11]
Odes, the, [362 note]
“Of late two dainties were before me placed,” etc., [139]
“O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung,” etc., [259]
“O golden-tongued Romance with serene Lute!” etc., [59]
“Old Meg she was a gipsy,” etc., [120]
Ollier, [1], [87], [179], [197], [219];
published K.’s Poems, [72];
his Altam and his Wife, [197]
One, Two, Three, Four, by Reynolds, [295]
“Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,” etc., [25]
Ophelia, [80]
Opie, Mrs., [72]
Ops, [184]
Original Poems, by Miss Taylor, [23]
Orinda, the matchless. See [Philips, Mrs.]
Orpheus, [214]
“O soft embalmer of the still midnight,” etc., [259]
Othello, [329]
Otho the Great, [277], [279], [280], [281], [284], [285], [323], [325], [335], [336], [340] (sometimes referred to as the, or our, tragedy)
“O those whose face hath felt the winter’s wind,” etc., [74]
“Over the hill and over the dale,” etc., [90]
“O what can ail thee knight-at-arms,” etc., [250]
Oxford described, [20], [22];
visited, [19-32]
Oxford Herald, The, [112 and note]
Paine, Tom, [299]
Paolo, [246]
Paradise Lost, [42], [89], [108], [281], [282], [313]
Park, Mungo, [50]
Parsons, [221 seq.], [233], [268]
Patmore, [106]
Payne, Howard, [191]
Peachey, [192], [217], [226]
Peachey family, [49]
Peacock, [87]
“Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes,” etc., [293]
Peona, [38]
Pepin, King, the History of, [21]
Percy Street (i.e. the Hesseys), [54], [78], [88], [100], [114], [282]
Peter Bell, by Wordsworth, and the parody by Reynolds, [240], [248], [249]
Petzelians, [10]
Phaethon, [12]
Philips, Mrs., her verses to Mrs. M[ary] A[ubrey], [29]
Phillips, old, [26]
Philosopher’s stone, [32]
Philosopher’s back-garden, [89]
Physician, K.’s thoughts of becoming a, [233]
Pilgrim’s Progress, [21]
Pindar, Peter, [49], [72], [348]
Pistol (in Henry IV.), [84 and note]
Pizarro, [254]
Pliny, [233]
Plutarch’s Lives, [14]
Pocket-book, The Literary, by Leigh Hunt, [190], [197]
Poems of 1817, [2 note]
Poems, original, by Miss Taylor, [23]
“Poet, he is quite the little,” said of K., [219]
Poet, the Northern, i.e. Wordsworth, [28]
“Poet, why I should be a,” [12]
Poets, advertisement to, in the Chronicle, [46]
Poets, the English, K. expects to be among, after death, [171]
Poets, the vices of, [211], [212]
Poetry, axioms of, [77];
genius of, [167], [168];
effect of writing on K., [18];
K. cannot exist without, [9], [165];
K. cannot write when “fevered in a contrary direction,” [14];
invention the Polar Star of, [34];
a Jack o’Lantern, [81];
other things necessary, [101];
not written under the shadow of public thought, [96];
should be retiring, unobtrusive, [68]
Politics, [298]
Pope’s Homer, [13], [14]
Popularity, [281]
Porter, Jane, [219]
Porter, the Misses, [192], [193]
Pot of Basil, [101], [113]
Present, an anonymous, [192], [199]
Primrose Island, the Isle of Wight, [7]
Proserpine, [142]
Prose writing, genius of K. in, [xi.]
Protector of Fanny K., [216]
Protestantism discussed, [108]
Psyche, Ode to, [115 note], [259]
Public, the, an enemy to K., [96]
Punctuation peculiar, preserved, [xiv.]
Pythagoras, [89]
Quarterly Review, the, [37], [113], [167], [171], [224], [302]
Queen Mab, [48]
R.’s, the Miss. See [Reynolds, Misses]
Rabelais, [76]
Radcliffe, Mrs., [83], [221]
Rakehell, [44]
Raleigh, Sir W., [20]
Raphael, [17], [201]
“Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud,” etc., [158]
Red Riding Hood, [177]
Redhall, [52], [195], [202]
Reformation, effects of, [108]
Religion, K. on, [81], [256]
Revolt of Islam, [48 note]
*Reynolds, Jane, [xii.], [8], [27], [33], [43];
as St. Jane, [39];
a translator, [24]
*Reynolds, John Hamilton, [xi.], [2], [5], [6], [17], [18], [27], [33], [34], [35], [36], [46], [48], [54], [57], [62], [71], [130], [142], [162], [164], [179], [198], [218], [223], [245], [311], [324], [335], [352], [354], [376] (sometimes as John);
anecdote of, [308];
two articles by, [72];
his character, [344];
defends K., [171];
writes for the Edinburgh Review, [60], [190], [198];
poetical epistle by K. to, [91];
his farce, [295];
his Garden of Florence, [67 and note];
his illness, [76], [90], [97], [100], [111], [113];
he takes up law, [323], [325];
his quarrel with Haydon, [55], [61];
his Peter Bell, [240], [248], [249];
his sonnets, [3 note], [67 and note], [69];
his Spenserian, [103], [104]
*Reynolds, Mariane, [xii.], [26], [27], [33], [43];
her attitude towards Bailey, [225]
Reynolds, the Misses, [6], [9], [44], [102], [135], [172], [173], [190], [218], [225] (sometimes as sisters of J. H. R.)
*Reynolds, Mrs., [36], [44], [102], [114], [135], [172], [225], [264], [348] (mother of J. H. R.)
Reynoldses, the, [19], [44], [49], [97], [111], [142], [164], [165 note], [198], [225], [322] (sometimes as Little Britain)
“Reynolds’s Cove,” a spot so called by K., [28], [31]
Rhyme, Essays in, by Miss Taylor, [23]
*Rice, James, [xii.], [9], [31], [36], [50], [52], [64], [84], [102], [104], [111], [135], [164], [166], [177], [198], [219], [223], [225], [249], [282], [292], [345], [354], [373];
(once as Master Jemmy) and the barmaids, [90];
his character, [344];
his ill health, [33], [44], [58], [273], [276], [277]
Richards, [3], [72], [219], [241], [344]
Richardson, [301], [330]
Rimini, The Story of, by Hunt, [10], [58]
Ritchie, [50], [198]
Robertson’s America, [254]
Robin Hood, [125];
sonnets to, by Reynolds, [67 note];
J. K. answers above, [68], [69 and note]
Robinson, Crabb, [72 and note]
Robinson, Miss, [196]
Rodwell, [53]
Rogers, [218], [232]
Romance, a fine thing, [88];
projected by K., [32]
Rome visited, [376], [377]
Romeo, [25]
Rondeau, K.’s notion of, [207]
Ronsard translated by K., [165], [166]
Ross, Captain, [189]
Round Table, by Hazlitt, [31 and note]
Ruth, [125]
Salmasius, [88], [89]
Salmon, Mr., [212]
Sam [Brawne], [373]
Sancho, [67]
Sandt, [300]
Sannazaro, [313]
Sappho, [29]
Saturn, [184]
Saunders, [293]
Sawrey, Dr., [49], [166]
Sawrey, Mrs., [238], [239]
Scenery, [80]
Schoolmaster of K., [xviii.]
Scotch, the, [118], [124], [126]
Scotland visited, [110], [118-158]
Scott, John (editor of the Champion), [8 note], [50], [167 note]
Scott, Mrs., [72]
Scott, Sir W., [76], [198];
author of “Cockney” articles, [60]
and note; compared to Smollett, [51], [52]
Sea, a sonnet on the, [8]
Serjeant, the, of Fielding or Smollett, [52]
*Severn, Joseph, [xix.], [3], [49], [186], [231], [293], [306];
orders for drawing from Emperor of Russia, [52];
his illness, [171];
his “Hermia and Helena,” [265];
draws a head of K., [274];
his “Cave of Despair,” [334 and note], [335];
is with K. during his last illness and death, [373], [375], [377 note]
Shakspeare, [xvi.], [xviii.], [1 note], [5 note], [7 note], [8], [9], [16], [17], [25], [47], [48], [72], [77], [80], [81], [84], [95 note], [101], [106], [107], [131], [177], [189], [201], [221], [226], [228], [229], [263], [281], [337], [343], [355];
his Christianity, [11];
a presiding genius to K., [14];
his seal, [85];
his sonnets, [45]
Shandy, Tristram, [344]
Shanklin described, [6 seq.];
visited, [275-280]
Sheil’s play, [231], [232]
*Shelley, [12 and note], [33], [35], [76], [365];
captious about Endymion, [58];
his Laon and Cythna and Queen Mab objected to, [48];
as a letter-writer, [xv.];
his sonnet on the Nile, [72]
Shelley, Mrs., [12], [366]
Shipton, Mother, [232]
Sibylline Leaves, [18], [40]
Sidney, Algernon, [174], [175]
Sidney, Sir Philip, [10]
Silenus, [223]
Simon Pure, [248], [249]
Simple (in Merry Wives), [95 note]
Sister or sister-in-law (in K.’s American letters). See [Wylie, Georgiana]
Skinner, [245]
Slang of the Rice set, [50]
Sleep, sonnet on, [259]
Slips of the pen, not preserved in this edition, [xiv.]
Smith, Horace, [33], [47], [72], [75]
Smith, Sidney, [309]
Smith, William, Southey’s letter to, [10 note]
Smithfield, the burnings at, [108]
Smollett compared to Scott, [51], [52]
Snook, [26], [195 and note], [219], [317], [371 note];
visited by K., [217]
Socrates, [255];
and Jesus, [236]
Solitude, K.’s pleasure in, [181]
Solomon, [100]
“Solomon,” by Haydon, [214]
Songs, many written by K., [72]
Sonnet to Keats, a, [199]
Sonnets by K., [2], [8], [59], [66], [81], [117], [139], [158], [238], [246], [258], [259];
a new form, [261];
many written, [72];
one on the Nile, [72 and note]
Sophocles, [142]
“Souls of Poets dead and gone,” etc., [70]
Southampton, road to, described, [4 seq.]
Southcote, Joanna, [220]
Southey, [232], [244], [361];
Hazlitt on, [10 and note], [16]
Spectator, The, [293]
Speed’s edition of K., [xiii. and note]
Spelling tricks, K.’s, not followed in this edition, [xiv.]
Spenser, 9;
his Cave of Despair subject of a picture by Severn, [334 note], [335]
Staffa described, [150]
Stark (the artist), [76]
“Star of high promise!—not to this dark age,” etc. (sonnet to K.), [199]
Stephens, [49]
Stevenson (Rice’s nickname for Thornton), [345]
Susan Gale, [249]
Swift, [76], [344]
T., Mr., 18. See [Taylor]
Tam o’ Shanter, [130], [133]
Tarpeian Rock, [38]
Tasso, [95 note]
Taste, Hazlitt’s depth of, [53], [54]
*Taylor, [xi.], [18], [44], [53], [56], [76], [97], [111], [135], [168], [177], [199], [221], [236], [238], [248], [250], [292], [324], [340];
he helps K., [290];
he is pleased with Endymion, [57];
and suggests changes, [77]
Taylor, Jeremy, [225]
Taylor, Miss (author of Essays in Rhyme and Original Poems), [23]
Taylors, the (as Fleet Street), [54]
Teignmouth visited, [78-109]
Tempest quoted, [5 note], [7 note], [9], [245]
Tertullian, [10]
Text of this edition, [xiv.]
Theatricals, private, described, [59]
Theocritus, [180]
“There is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain,” etc., [146]
“There was a naughty Boy,” etc., [121]
“The sun from meridian height,” etc., [25]
“The Town, the churchyard, and the setting sun,” etc., [117]
Thomson, [72], [234]
Thornton, [163], [345]
Thought, the centre of the intellectual world, [82]
Tighe, Mrs., [201]
Timotheus, [25]
Tintern Abbey, by Wordsworth, [108]
“’Tis the witching time of night,” etc., [175]
Tom. See [Keats, Tom]
Tom Cribb’s Memorial to Congress, by Moore, [228], [344]
Tootts, [373]
Tournament, suggested by mountains, [116]
Towers, Mr., [218]
Tragedy. See [Otho the Great]
Trimmer, Mr., [192]
Troilus, [180]
Trojan horse, [96]
Turton, Dr., [101]
Twelfth Night, quoted [11]
Twisse, Horace, [198]
“Two or three Posies,” etc., [269]
Unreserve of K.’s letters, [xiv.]
“Upon a Sabbath-day it fell,” etc., [303]
“Upon my Life Sir Nevis I am pique’d,” [156]
Urganda, [18]
“Uriel,” by Alston, [76]
Vandyck, [361]
Vathek, Caliph, [134]
Velocipede, [233]
Venery, the philosophy of, [106]
Venus and Adonis, quoted, [45]
Verse and other quotations in letters given in full in this edition, [xiii.]
Virgil, [18]
Voltaire, [76], [231], [254], [362]
Waldegrave, Miss, [170], [191], [219], [248], [292], [315]
Wallace, [329]
Walpole’s Letters, [208]
Walton, [290]
Warder, [181]
Warner Street, [3]
Washington, [175]
Way, [221]
Webb, Cornelius, [39]
Webb, Mrs., [218]
Wellington, Duke of, [17], [345]
Well Walk (where the brothers K. lodged), [152], [183]
Wells, Charles, [47 and note], [48 note], [49], [50], [52], [55], [58], [59];
his treatment of George K., [239], [245]
Wells, Mrs., [52]
Wentworth Place (occupied by Dilke and Brown), [142], [163], (K. moves to), [187]
Wentworthians, the, [223]
“Were they unhappy then?—It cannot be,” etc., [102]
West, [87];
his “Death on the Pale Horse,” [47]
“When I have fears that I may cease to be,” etc., [66]
“When they were come into the Faery’s Court,” etc., [241]
“Where be ye going, you Devon Maid?” etc., [66]
“Wherein lies Happiness! In that which becks,” etc., [64]
Whitehead, [63], [82]
“Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell,” etc., [238]
Wight, Isle of, “the Primrose Island,” [7];
visited, [6-9], [275-279], [370]
Wilkie, [76], [111]
Wilkinson, [6]
William of Wickham, [284]
Williams, Dominie, [218]
Williams, Mrs., [34]
Winchester described, [283 seq.], [302], [320];
visited, [280-328]
Winkine (author of treatise on garden-rollers), [20]
Winter, Miss, [231]
Women, the influence of, [143];
classed with “roses and sweetmeats,” [370];
why should they suffer? [61]
Wood, [10]
*Woodhouse, Richard, [100], [114], [168], [218], [248], [250], [282], [287 note], [289 note], [320 note], [322], [324];
copied letters, [xi.];
a letter from him introducing Miss Porter, [192], [193]
Wooler, [47]
Wordsworth, [2 and note], [17], [28], [33], [39], [50], [54], [55], [58], [79], [81], [95], [114], [232], [236], [249], [361] (as the Northern Poet, [28]);
his character, [76];
his genius, [105-108];
his Gipsy, [37];
his house, [116];
damned the Lakes, [87];
his Peter Bell, [240];
his philosophy illustrated by his Matthew, [67], [68];
his portrait in Haydon’s “Christ,” [16 and note];
he is read by K., [28];
his Tintern Abbey, [108];
the “Wordsworthian or egotistical Sublime style of poetry,” [184]
Wordsworth, Mrs. and Miss (as W. W.’s wife and sister), [87]
Wylie, Charles, [165], [170], [178], [189], [292], [307], [339], [341], [342], [344] (sometimes as Charles)
*Wylie, Georgiana, [75 and note], [117], [119], [192], [200], [201], [305], [306], [372] (sometimes as sister, sister-in-law, G. minor, or little George);
an acrostic on her name, [300];
admired by K., [113], [169], [173];
married to George K., [xix.]
Wylie, Henry, [170], [176], [178], [197], [219], [231], [257], [292], [341], [346], [358] (sometimes as Henry);
“a greater blade than ever,” [307];
his bride cake, [339]
*Wylie, Mrs., [117], [158], [168], [169], [178], [189], [191], [197], [217], [222], [223], [231], [239], [248], [257], [263], [270], [284], [292], [307], [314], [337], [338], [341], [349] (sometimes as mother)
Wylie, Mrs. Henry, [339], [346]
Wylies, the two, i.e. Charles and Henry, [239], [248], [266], [348], [364] (sometimes as brothers)
Wylies, the (as Henrietta Street), [189]
Wyoming, Gertrude of, [342]
Yellow Dwarf, the, [67 note], [72]
Young (the actor), [285]
Zoroastrians, [257]
THE END
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Footnotes:
[A] A complete friend. This line sounded very oddly to me at first.
[B] Especially as I have a black eye.
[1] Macmillan’s Magazine, August 1888.
[2] For the letters already printed by Lord Houghton, Mr. Forman as a rule simply copied the text of that editor. The letters to Fanny Brawne and Fanny Keats, on the other hand, he printed with great accuracy from the autographs, and had autographs also before him in revising those to Dilke, Haydon, and several besides. The correspondence with Fanny Keats he kindly gave me leave to use for the present volume, receiving from me in return the right to use my MS. materials for a revised issue of his own work. In that issue, which appeared at the end of 1889, the new matter is, however, printed separately, in the form of scraps and addenda detached from their context; and the present edition (the appearance of which has been delayed for two years by accidental circumstances) is the only one in which the true text of the American and miscellaneous letters is given consecutively and in proper order.
[3] The letters in which I have relied wholly or in part on Mr. Speed’s text are Nos. xxv. lxxx. (only for a few passages missing in the autograph) cxvi. and cxxxi.
[4] Where the dates in my text are printed without brackets, they are those given by Keats himself; the dates within brackets have been supplied either from the postmarks (as was done by Woodhouse in all his transcripts) or by inference from the text.
[5] The autographs of these letters, all except three, are now in the British Museum.
[6] The early letters of Keats are full of these Shakspearean tags and allusions: some of the less familiar I have thought it worth while to mark in the footnotes.
[7] The references are of course to Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, and Haydon. In the sonnet as printed in the Poems of 1817, and all later editions, the last line but one breaks off at “workings,” the words “in the human mart” having been omitted by Haydon’s advice.
[8] Presumably as shown in some drawing or miniature.
[9] Not the long poem published under that title in 1818, but the earlier attempt beginning, “I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,” which was printed as a fragment in the Poems of 1817.
[10] This letter, which is marked by Woodhouse in his copy “no date, sent by hand,” I take to be an answer to the commendatory sonnet addressed by Reynolds to Keats on February 27, 1817: see Keats (Men of Letters Series), Appendix, p. 223.
[11] For Stephano’s “Here’s my comfort,” twice in Tempest, II. ii.
“I’ll not show him
Where the quick freshes are.”
Caliban in Tempest, III. ii.
[13] This sonnet was first published in the Champion (edited by John Scott) for August 17, 1817.
[14] Charles Cowden Clarke.
[15] For Sunday, May 4, 1817.
[16] The first part, published in the same number of the Examiner, of a ferocious review by Hazlitt of Southey’s Letter to William Smith, Esq., M.P.
[17] The poem so entitled on which Hunt was now at work, and which was published in the volume called Foliage (1818).
[18] Alluding to the well-known story of Shelley dismaying an old lady in a stage-coach by suddenly, à propos of nothing, crying out to Leigh Hunt in the words of Richard II., “For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground,” etc.
[19] Opening speech of the King in Love’s Labour’s Lost.
[20] I.e., their likenesses, as introduced by Haydon into his picture of Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem.
[21] General Bertrand, who followed Napoleon to St. Helena.
[22] On a visit to Benjamin Bailey at Magdalen Hall.
[23] Littlehampton.
[24] Reynolds’s family lived in Little Britain.
[25] William Dilke, a younger brother of Charles Dilke, who had served in the Commissariat department in the Peninsula, America, and Paris. He died in 1885 at the age of 90.
[26] The Round Table: republished from the Examiner of the two preceding years.
[27] First Lord in All’s Well that Ends Well, IV. iii.
[28] Bentley, the Hampstead postman, was Keats’s landlord at the house in Well Walk where he and his brothers had taken up their quarters the previous June.
[29] G. R. Gleig, son of the Bishop of Stirling: born 1796, died 1888: served in the Peninsula War and afterwards took orders: Chaplain-General to the Forces from 1846 to 1875: author of the Subaltern and many military tales and histories.
[30] Reynolds and Rice.
[31] Sic: for “unpaid”?
“She disappear’d, and left me dark: I waked
To find her, or for ever to deplore
Her loss, and other pleasures all abjure:
When, out of hope, behold her not far off,
Such as I saw her in my dream, adorn’d
With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow
To make her amiable.”
Paradise Lost, Book VIII.
[33] Charles Wells, a schoolmate of Tom Keats; afterwards author of Stories after Nature and Joseph and his Brethren. For Keats’s subsequent cause of quarrel with him see below, Letter XCII.
[34] An admirable phrase!—if only penetralium were Latin.
[35] Laon and Cythna, presently changed to The Revolt of Islam.
[36] The family of Charles Wells lived at this address.
[37] Both in fact appeared in the number for Sunday, January 4: see postscript below.
[38] The Hampstead doctor who attended the Keats brothers.
[39] The text of this letter is described by its American editor (who seems to have mistaken the order of one or two passages) as written in an evident hurry and almost illegible.
[40] Mr. Kingston was a Commissioner of Stamps, an acquaintance and tiresome hanger-on of Wordsworth.
[41] For a more glowing account of this supper party of December 28, 1817, compare Haydon, Autobiography, i. p. 384. The Mr. Ritchie referred to started on a Government mission to Fezzan in September 1818, and died at Morzouk the following November. An account of the expedition was published by his travelling companion, Captain G. F. Lyon, R.N.
[42] The manager: of whom Macready in his Reminiscences has so much that is pleasant to say.
[43] Tea-merchant, of Pancras Lane and Walthamstow: guardian to the Keats brothers and their sister.
[44] Of course a mere delusion; but Hunt and those of his circle retained for years afterwards an impression that Scott had in some way inspired or encouraged the Cockney School articles.
[45] Alluding to two sonnets of Reynolds On Robin Hood, copies of which Keats had just received from him by post. They were printed in the Yellow Dwarf (edited by John Hunt) for February 21, 1818, and again in the collection of poems published by Reynolds in 1821 under the title A Garden of Florence.
[46] Both the Robin Hood and the Mermaid lines as afterwards printed vary in several places from these first drafts.
[47] Henry Crabb Robinson, author of the Diaries.
[48] The Olliers (Shelley’s publishers) had brought out Keats’s Poems the previous spring, and the ill success of the volume had led to a sharp quarrel between them and the Keats brothers.
[49] Georgiana Wylie, to whom George Keats was engaged.
[50] This letter has been hitherto erroneously printed under date September 1818.
[51] Reading doubtful.
[52] The five lines ending here Keats afterwards re-cast, doubtless in order to get rid of the cockney rhyme “ports” and “thoughts.”
[53] “And, sweetheart, lie thou there”:—Pistol (to his sword) in Henry IV., Part 2, II. iv.
[54] Replying to an ecstatic note of Haydon’s about a seal with a true lover’s knot and the initials W. S., lately found in a field at Stratford-on-Avon.
[55] Dentatus was the subject of Haydon’s new picture.
[56] The famous picture now belonging to Lady Wantage, and exhibited at Burlington House in 1888. Whether Keats ever saw the original is doubtful (it was not shown at the British Institution in his time), but he must have been familiar with the subject as engraved by Vivarès and Woollett, and its suggestive power worked in his mind until it yielded at last the distilled poetic essence of the “magic casement” passage in the Ode to a Nightingale. It is interesting to note the theme of the Grecian Urn ode coming in also amidst the “unconnected subject and careless verse” of this rhymed epistle.
[57] Sic: probably, as suggested by Mr. Forman, for “I hope what you achieve is not lost upon me.”
[58] The English rebels against tradition in poetry and art at this time took much the same view of the French dramatists of the grand siècle as was taken by the romantiques of their own nation a few years later; and Haydon had written to Keats in his last letter, “When I die I’ll have Shakspeare placed on my heart, with Homer in my right hand and Ariosto in the other, Dante at my head, Tasso at my feet, and Corneille under my ——”
[59] “He hath fought with a Warrener”:—Simple in Merry Wives, I. iv.
[60] The first draught of the proposed preface to Endymion.
[61] Changed in the printed version to—“His image in the dusk she seemed to see.”
[62] The quotation is from Slender in Merry Wives of Windsor, I. i.
[63] Meaning the atmosphere of the little Bentleys in Well Walk.
[64] “I will make an end of my dinner; there’s pippins and cheese to come”:—Sir Hugh Evans in Merry Wives of Windsor, I. ii.
[65] The crossing of the letter, begun at the words “Have you not,” here dips into the original writing.
[66] The Oxford Herald for June 6, 1818.
[67] Referring probably to the unfortunate second marriage made by their mother.
[68] A leaf with the name and “from the Author,” notes Woodhouse.
[69] Compare the Ode to Psyche:—
“Far, far around shall those dark-crested trees
Fledge the wild-ridged mountains steep by steep.”
[70] Wordsworth’s lines “To Joanna” seem to have been special favourites with Keats.
[71] Keats here repeats for his brother the Meg Merrilies piece contained in the preceding letter to Fanny.
[72] Reading doubtful.
[73] Here follows a sketch.
[74] The Swan and Two Necks, Lad Lane, London, seems to have been the coach office for Liverpool and the North-West; compare Lamb’s Letters (ed. Ainger), vol. i. p. 241.
[75] By Long Island Keats means, not of course the great chain of the Outer Hebrides so styled, but the little island of Luing, east of Scarba Sound. His account of the place from which he is writing, and its distance from Oban as specified in the paragraph added there next day, seem to identify it certainly as Kilmelfort.
[76] Cary’s translation.
[77] No place so named appears on any map: but at the foot of the Cruach-Doire-nan-Cuílean, off the road, is a house named Derrynaculan, and a few miles farther on, at the head of Loch Seridain, an ancient fortified site or Dun, with an inn on the road near by.
[78] For Loch na Keal.
[79] The six lines from “place” to “dance” were judiciously omitted by Keats in copying these verses later.
[80] Miss Charlotte Cox, an East-Indian cousin of the Reynoldses—the “Charmian” described more fully in Letter LXXIII.
[81] Referring to these words in John Scott’s letter in his defence, Morning Chronicle, October 3, 1818:—“That there are also many, very many passages indicating both haste and carelessness I will not deny; nay, I will go further, and assert that a real friend of the author would have dissuaded him from immediate publication.”
[82] Miss Charlotte Cox; see above, Letter LXX.
[83] This, notes Woodhouse, is in reply to a letter of protest he had written Keats concerning “what had fallen from him, about six weeks back, when we dined together at Mr. Hessey’s, respecting his continuing to write; which he seemed very doubtful of.”
[84] On the death of his brother Tom (which took place December 1, a few hours after the last letter was written) Brown urged Keats to leave the lodgings where the brothers had lived together, and come and live with him at Wentworth Place—a block of two semi-detached houses in a large garden at the bottom of John Street, of which Dilke occupied the larger and Brown the smaller: see Keats (Men of Letters Series), p. 128. Keats complied; and henceforth his letters dated Hampstead must be understood as written not from Well Walk, but from Wentworth Place.
[85] A paper of the largest folio size, used by Keats in this letter only, and containing some eight hundred words a page of his writing.
[86] This is Keats’s first mention of Fanny Brawne. His sense on first acquaintance of her power to charm and tease him must be understood, in spite of his reticence on the subject, as having grown quickly into the absorbing passion which tormented the remainder of his days.
[87] Of Bedhampton Castle: a connection of the Dilkes and special friend of Brown.
[88] I.e. on George Keats’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Wylie.
[89] The tassels were a gift from his sister-in-law.
[90] The sheet which Keats accidentally left out in making up his packet in the spring, and which he forwarded with this supplement from Winchester the following September, seems to have begun with the words, “On Monday we had to dinner,” etc. (p. 231), and to have ended with the words, “but as I am” (p. 235, line 1): at least this portion of the letter is missing in the autograph now before me. I supply it from Jeffrey’s transcript.
[91] To about this date must belong the posthumously printed Ode on Indolence, which describes the same mood with nearly the same imagery. Possibly the “black eye” mentioned by Keats in his footnote, together with the reflections on street-fighting later on, may help us to fix the date of his famous fight with the butcher boy.
[92] Compare the repetition of the same thought and phrase in the ode To a Nightingale written two months later.
[93] Slightly misquoted from Macbeth in the banquet scene.
[94] By mistake for the 19th of March.
[95] For “put together”?
[96] Brown’s younger brothers: see below, p. 245.
“Sometime am I
All wound with adders, who with cloven tongues
Do hiss me into madness.”
Caliban in Tempest, II. ii.
[98] This old word for a snack between meals is used by Marlowe and Ben Jonson, and I believe still survives at some of the public schools.
[99] This notice of Reynolds’s parody was printed, with some revision, in the Examiner for April 26, 1819.
[100] There is no other autograph copy of this famous poem except the draft here given. It contains several erasures and corrections. In verse 3 Keats had written first, for “a lily” and “a fading rose,” “death’s lily” and “death’s fading rose”: in verse 4, for “Meads,” “Wilds”: in verse 7, for “manna dew,” “honey dew”: in verse 8, for “and sigh’d full sore,” “and there she sigh’d”; in verse 11, for “gaped wide,” “wide agape”: and in verse 12, for “sojourn,” “wither.”
[101] Sic: obviously for “run” or “go.”
[102] In all probability the Ode to a Nightingale, published in the July number of the Annals of the Fine Arts, of which James Elmes was editor.
[103] This and the next interpolation are Brown’s.
[104] So copied by Woodhouse: query “battle-axe”?
[105] Keats’s quotation from his first draft of Lamia continued, says Woodhouse, for thirty lines more: but as the text varied much from that subsequently printed, and as Woodhouse’s notes of these variations are lost, I can only give thus much, from an autograph first draft of the passage in the possession of Lord Houghton.
[106] Keats here copies, with slight changes and abridgments, his letter to Tom of July 23, 1818 (see above, p. 147), ending with the lines written after visiting Staffa: as to which he adds, “I find I must keep memorandums of the verses I send you, for I do not remember whether I have sent the following lines upon Staffa. I hope not; ’twould be a horrid bore to you, especially after reading this dull specimen of description. For myself I hate descriptions. I would not send it if it were not mine.”
[107] The beautiful Ode to Autumn, the draft of which Keats had copied in a letter (unluckily not preserved) written earlier in the same day to Woodhouse.
[108] Sir George Beaumonts and Lord Mulgraves: compare Haydon’s Life and Correspondence.
[109] In the interval between the last letter and this, Keats had tried the experiment of living alone in Westminster lodgings, and failed. After a visit to his beloved at Hampstead, he could keep none of his wise resolutions, but wrote to her, “I can think of nothing else ... I cannot exist without you ... you have absorb’d me ... I shall be able to do nothing—I should like to cast the die for Love or Death—I have no patience with anything else” ... and at the end of a week he had gone back to live next door to her with Brown at Wentworth Place. Here he quickly fell into that state of feverish despondency and recklessness to which his friends, especially Brown, have borne witness, and the signs of which are perceptible in his letters of the time, and still more in his verse, viz. the remodelled Hyperion and the Cap and Bells: see Keats (Men of Letters Series), pp. 180-190.
[110] Referring to the fairy poem of The Cap and Bells, the writing of which, says Brown, was Keats’s morning occupation during these weeks.
[111] Spenser’s Cave of Despair was the subject of the picture (already referred to in Letter CXXIV.) with which Severn won the Royal Academy premium, awarded December 10 of this year.
[112] George Keats had come over for a hurried visit to England on business.
[113] Hemorrhage from the lungs; in which Keats recognised his death-warrant, and after which the remainder of his life was but that of a doomed invalid. The particulars of the attack, as related by Charles Brown, are given by Lord Houghton, and in Keats (Men of Letters Series), p. 193.
[114] Brown having let his house (Wentworth Place) when he started for a fresh Scotch tour on May 7, Keats moved to lodgings at the above address in order to be near Leigh Hunt, who was then living in Mortimer Terrace, Kentish Town.
[115] The Cap and Bells was to have appeared under this pseudonym. By “begin” Keats means begin again (compare above, CXXXVIII.): he did not, however, do so, and the eighty-eight stanzas of the poem which are left all belong to the previous year (end of October—beginning of December 1819).
[116] The volume containing Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, Hyperion, and the Odes.
[117] After the attack last mentioned, Keats went to be taken care of in Hunt’s house, and stayed there till August 12.
[118] Chapman’s Homer.
[119] The Maria Crowther had in fact sailed from London September 18: contrary winds holding her in the Channel, Keats had landed at Portsmouth for a night’s visit to the Snooks of Bedhampton.
[120] On the 10th of December following came a renewal of fever and hemorrhage, extinguishing the last hope of recovery: and after eleven more weeks of suffering, only alleviated by the devoted care of Severn, the poet died in his friend’s arms on the 23d of February 1821.