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, Senor, 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 Aegis, 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
_Printed in Great Britain by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_.
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.
[12]
"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, _a 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"?
[32]
"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 Vivares 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 siecle_ 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
----"