I.

"I stood tiptoe upon a little hill," poem by Keats, 67; extract from, 74; 165

_Indicator, The_, 112, 114

"Indolence, Ode to," by Keats, 202

"Isabella, or the Pot of Basil," by Keats, 95, 107, 138; critical estimate of the poem, 180-182; 206

"Islam, The Revolt of," by Shelley, 77, 82, 123

J.

J. S., 93, 94

Jeffrey, Lord, 109

Jeffrey, Mr., 120

Jennings, grandfather of Keats, 12, 37

Jennings, Captain, 16

Jennings, Mrs., 16

"Joseph and his Brethren," by Wells, 23

K.

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 sensitiveness 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, Hammond, 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 engagement, 36; his friendship towards Haydon cools, 36, 37; at Shanklin and Winchester, 37, 38; sees his brother George again, and is left by him in pecuniary straits, 38, 39; the painful circumstances 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; diatribe against Boileau, and poets of that school, 70; the publishers 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 Review_, 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 relations with Hunt, Shelley, and others, 121-123; Keats's small stature and personal appearance, 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 towards women, 143-146; and towards Miss Brawne, 147, 148; his habits, opinions, likings, &c., 148-155; humour and jocularity, 155-157; negative turn in religious 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 "Endymion," 176-180; critical estimate 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 feeling towards women, as developed in his poems, 205; "swooning," 206; sensuousness and sentiment, 207; comparison between Keats and Shelley, and final remarks, 208

Keats, Mrs. George, 27, 32, 95, 120

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, 112, 190

Kotzebue, 150