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.), 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

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, 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

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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.

[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_,