Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

by John Keats

[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]

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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.