Biographies, appreciation and Collections of his works, [531] et sqq.
Memoir of, by Monckton Milnes, [520]
Biographical references in order of date
1795-1817
Parentage, birth and family, [2], [3] et sqq.; school days, [7] et sqq.; boyish amusements, his lines on, [9], [10]; industry, [13], and successes, [14]; apprenticeship to Mr Hammond, surgeon, [16] & n. 2 et sqq., silence of, on this period, [17]; beginnings of poetry-writing, [17], [18], influences, [14], [18] et sqq., vocation first felt, [12], [21]
1815-17
Life as medical student, [17], [26] & n., [27], [28] et sqq.; the doctor’s life abandoned, [28], [83]; notebook of, [33] & n. 2; Friendships made and renewed, (see also Friends, infra), with Cowden Clarke, [34]; with Leigh Hunt, [35]-6 et sqq., et alibi, effect of the friendship with Hunt on his career, [41], [51] et sqq., friendships, formed through Hunt, [59] et sqq.; the laurel crown episode and his verses thereon then, and later, [55], [57]-8, [415]; verse-writing on a given subject, with Hunt, [55] et sqq.; at Margate, the Epistles written from, [37]; first reading of Chapman’s Homer, the great sonnet written on it, [38] et sqq.; walk of, to the Poultry, [40] n.; Haydon’s acquaintance made, [59]; other new friendships, [68] et sqq.; social surroundings, [78]-9; social surroundings, aet. 21, [78]-9; at a Bear fight, [81]-2; growing passion for the poetic life, [83]
1817
First book, Poems (q.v.), published, [83] et sqq., [130] et sqq.; new publishers found, and new friends gained, [133] et sqq.; stay in the Isle of Wight, Shakespeare studies and work on Endymion, during, [135] et sqq.; visit to Canterbury, effect of, [140]; visit to Bailey at Oxford, described by the latter, [143] et sqq.; stay at Burford Bridge, [152], Endymion finished at, [161], [162]; end of first phase of mind and art of, [163]
Dec. 1817-June 1818