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
Athenaeum, 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
Caesar, 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
Duerer, 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
_Evadne_, 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 _eleve_, 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 _eleve_, 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