Gentleman's Magazine, The, 102
George IV., 21, 114
Gifford, William, 83, 95, 168
Girometti, 128
Gisborne, Mrs., 44, 98
Grafty, Mrs., 64
"Grasshopper and Cricket, The,"
sonnets by Keats and Hunt, 166
"Grecian Urn, Ode on a," by
Keats, 109, 110, 192, 194-198
Guido, 155
Hammond, Surgeon, 18, 19
Haslam, William, 54
Haydn, 148
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, the
painter, friend of John Keats,
13, 16, 18, 21, 36, 37, 44; his
last interview with Keats, 54;
55, 64, 69, 76, 78, 99; his view
as to Keats's feeling regarding
critical attacks, 100, &c.; 105,
110, 123, 126, 127, 128, 132,
133; his view of Keats's charac-
ter, 134-135, 136, 137, 138, 140,
141, 142, 150, 152, 153, 155, 158
Hazlitt, 116, 152
Holmes, Edward, 54
Homer, 165
Hood, Mrs. (Miss Reynolds), 23
Hood, Thomas, 23
Hooker, Bishop, 32
Houghton, Lord, 41, 42, 58, 99,
114, 119, 125, 132, 136, 139
Howard, John, 32
Hunt, John, 20
Hunt, Leigh, 20, 21, 25, 44, 59,
66-69, 77, 83, 84, 85, 89-92, 97,
8, 100; his view as to Keats's
sensitiveness to criticism, 102;
110, 112, 114, 121, 122, 123; his
description of Keats, 124; 125,
131, 134, 141, 142, 148, 150,
156, 158, 164, 166, 181, 207
Hunt, Leigh, dedicatory sonnet
to, by Keats, 66
Hunt, Leigh, leaving prison,
sonnet by Keats, 66
Hunt, Mrs., 44
Hunt, Thornton, 44
"Hyperion," by Keats, 96, 97,
107, 108, 113, 137, 182; critical
estimate of the poem, 185-189;
recast of, 189; 190, 192, 206
Jennings, Captain, 16
Jennings, Mrs., 16
"Joseph and his Brethren," by
Wells, 23
Kean as Richard Duke of York,
critique by Keats, 93, 115
Kean, Edmund, 112
Keats, Fanny, sister of the poet,
13, 29, 38, 43, 45, 57, 62, 120,
121, 129, 148
Keats, Frances, mother of the
poet, 12; her death, 16; 25, 126
Keats, George, brother of the
poet, 13, 15, 18, 19, 25, 27, 30,
32, 37, 38, 64, 71, 95, 98; his
view as to John Keats's sensitive-
ness to criticism, 103; 111, 119,
120, 126, 136, 141, 142, 145, 146,
147, 150, 151, 155, 159, 160
Keats, George, Epistle to, by John
Keats, 67, 68
Keats, John, his parentage, 12;
his birth in London, October
31, 1795, 13; anecdote of his
childhood, 13; goes to the
school of Mr. Clarke at Enfield,
14; his studies, pugnacity, &c.,
15; death of his parents, 16;
apprenticed to a surgeon, Ham-
mond, 18; leaves Hammond,
and walks the hospitals, 18, 19;
reads Spenser's "Faery Queen,”
and drops surgical study, 20;
makes acquaintance with Leigh
Hunt, Haydon, and others, 20,
21, 22; his first volume, Poems,
1817, 22; writes " Endymion,"
23;
his health suffers in Oxford,
24; anecdotes (Coleridge, &c.),
25; makes a pedestrian tour in
Scotland &c. with Charles
Armitage Brown, 25-29; takes
leave of his brother George and
his wife, 27; his brother Tom
dies, 29; lodges with Brown at
Hampstead, 29; meets Miss
Cox ("Charmian") and Miss
Brawne, and falls in love with
the latter, 30-35; their engage-
ment, 36; his friendship towards
Haydon cools, 36, 37; at Shank-
lin and Winchester, 37, 38; sees
his brother George again, and
is left by him in pecuniary
straits, 38, 39; the painful cir-
cumstances of his closing
months, owing to illness, his
love affair, and the depreciation
of his poems, 40, 41; beginning
of his consumptive illness, 41,
42; removes to Kentish Town,
43, 44; returns to Mrs. Brawne's
house at Hampstead, 45; his
love-letters, 45-54; travels to
Italy with Joseph Severn, 54-
59; Severn's account of his last
days in Rome, 60, 61; his death
there, February 23, 1821, 62,
63; his early turn for mere
rhyming, 64; his early writings,
and first volume, 65, 69; dia-
tribe against Boileau, and poets
of that school, 70; the pub-
lishers relinquish sale of the
volume, 72; "Endymion," and
passage from an early poem
forecasting this attempt, 73-76;
details as to composition of
"Endymion," 76-79; prefaces
to the poem, 79-83; adverse
critique in The Quarterly Re-
view, 83-91; question debated
whether this and other attacks
affected Keats deeply, 91-97;
statements by Shelley, 97; and
by Haydon, 99; other evidence,
102; conclusion as to this point,
105; Keats writes "Isabella,"
"The Eve of St. Agnes," and
"Hyperion," 107; "Lamia,"
108; and publishes the volume
containing these poems, 1820,
108; other poems in the volume,
109; posthumous poems of
Keats, "The Eve of St. Mark,"
"Otho the Great," "The Cap
and Bells," &c., 110-115; his
letters and other prose writings,
115-117; Keats's burial-place,
118-119; projects for writing
his life, accomplished finally by
Lord Houghton, 119; his rela-
tions with Hunt, Shelley, and
others, 121-123; Keats's small
stature and personal appear-
ance, 124-126; the portraits of
him, 126-129; difficulty of clearly
estimating his character, 129;
his poetic ambition and intensity
of thought, 130, 131; his moral
tone, 132; his character ("no
decision &c.,) estimated by
Haydon, 133-139; Lord
Houghton's account of his
manner in society, 139; his
suspiciousness, 141; and dislike
of mankind, 142; his feeling to-
wards women, 143-146; and
towards Miss Brawne, 147, 148;
his habits, opinions, likings, &c.,
148-155; humour and jocularity,
155-157; negative turn in re-
ligious matters, 157-160; wine
and diet, 160, 161; conclusion
as to his character, 161, 162;
his early tone in poetry, 164;
critical estimate of his first
volume, Poems, 1817, 165-166;
of "Endymion," 167, 168;
narrative of this poem, 168-175;
defects and beauties of "Endy-
mion," 176-180; critical esti-
mate of "Isabella," 180; "Eve
of St. Agnes," 182; "Eve of
St. Mark," 184; "Hyperion,"
185; "Otho the Great," 189;
'Lamia," 190; "Belle Dame
sans Merci" (quoted), 192; the
five chief Odes, 194; analysis of
the "Ode to a Nightingale,"
200; various posthumous lyrics,
sonnets, &c., 202; Keats's feel-
ing towards women, as developed
in his poems, 205; "swooning,"
206; sensuousness and senti-
ment, 207; comparison between
Keats and Shelley, and final
remarks, 208
Keats, Mrs. George, 27, 32, 95,
Keats, Thomas, father of the poet,
12; his death, 16; 126
Keats, Thomas, brother of the
poet, 13, 15, 19, 23, 24, 25, 28;
his death, 29; 37, 38, 39, 121,
135, 159, 160
'King Stephen," by Keats, 73.
'Maia, Ode to," by Keats, 202
'Mark, Eve of St.," by Keats,
52, 110, 182; critical estimate
of the poem, 184-185; 190
Marmontel's "Incas of Peru," 15
Mathew, George Felton, Epistle
to, by Keats, 67; 157
Medwin's "Life of Shelley," 34
"Melancholy, Ode on," by Keats,
109, 192, 194-199
Milton, 107, 135, 147, 159, 165,
186, 188
"Miserrimus," by Reynolds, 23
Mitford, Miss, 101, 135
Moore, Thomas, 165
Morning Chronicle, The, 93
Murray, John, 102
"Narensky," opera by C. A.
Rawlings, William, 16
Reynolds, John Hamilton, 22, 79,
95, 107, 115, 128, 156
Reynolds, Misses, 30, 31, 142, 145,
148
Scott, Sir Walter, 91, 100
Severn, Joseph, 39; leaves Eng-
land with Keats for Italy, 54;
59; his narrative of Keats's last
days, 60, &c.; 104, 118, 119,
125; his portraits of Keats, 127-
129; 139, 143, 147, 148
Shakespeare (Macbeth), 15; (Ham-
let), 52; 93, 114, 135, 147;
(King Lear), 151; 155, 165
Shakespeare, Notes on, by Keats,
115
Shakespeare's sonnets, Book on,
by C. A. Brown, 27
Sharpey, Dr., 30
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 39, 58, 59,
71, 77, 82, 91, 96; his references
to "Endymion," and The Quar-
terly Review, 97-99; 102, 110,
119, 123, 125, 141, 147, 167, 179,
180, 185; comparison between
Shelley and Keats, 208
"Sleep and Poetry," by Keats, 67,
69; extract from, 70; 165
Smith, Horace, 68
Sonnet by Keats ("Bright Star,"
Sonnets (various) by Keats, 164,
167, 203, &c.
Spence's "Polymetis," 15
Webb, Cornelius, 92
Webster, 189
Wells, Charles, 23
Wilson, John, 91
"Woman, when I behold thee "
&c., poem by Keats, quoted, 143
Wood, Warrington, 119
Woodhouse, Richard, 94, 149, 153,
188
Wordsworth, 21, 78; ("The Ex-
cursion,")152; 153, 156, 164, 179
Z.
Z (probably Lockhart), 91, 92, 100.
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