Keats, John, 1795-1821; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography
_Gisborne, Letter to Maria_ (Shelley's), 30.
Goethe, 154.
_Grasshopper and Cricket_, 35.
Gray, 113.
Greece, Keats' love of, 58, 77, 154.
_Guy Mannering_ (Scott's), 115.
Hammond, Mr, 11, 14.
Hampstead, 72, 77.
Haslam, William, 45, 212 (note).
Haydon, 3, 40, 65, 68, 78, 137, 138, 191, 214.
Hazlitt, William, 83, 84.
_History of his own Time_ (Burnet's), 10.
Holmes, Edward, 8.
_Holy Living and Dying_ (Jeremy Taylor's), 206.
_Homer, On first looking into Chapman's_ (Sonnet), 23-24.
Hood, 219.
_Hope_, address to, 21.
Horne, R. H., 11.
Houghton, Lord, 75, 211-213.
Hunt, John, 25.
Hunt, Leigh, 22, 24, 25, 32, 35, 39, 49, 51, 68, 72, 78, 196.
_Hyperion_, 129, 133, 144;
its purpose, 152;
one of the grandest poems of our language, 157;
the influences of _Paradise Lost_ on it, 158;
its blank verse compared with Milton's, 158;
its elemental grandeur, 160;
remodelling of it, 185 seq.;
description of the changes, 186-187;
special interest of the poem, 187.
_Imitation of Spenser_ (Keats' first lines), 14, 20.
_Indolence, Ode on_, 174-175.
_Isabella, or the Pot of Basil_, 86;
source of its inspiration, 148;
minor blemishes, 149;
its Italian metre, 149;
its conspicuous power and charm, 149;
description of its beauties, 151.
Isle of Wight, 67.
Jennings, Mrs, 5, 11.
Jennings, Capt. M. J., 7.
Joseph and his Brethren (Wells'), 45.
Kean, 81.
Keats, John, various descriptions of, 7, 8, 9, 46, 47, 76, 136, 224;
birth, 2;
education at Enfield, 4;
death of his father, 5;
school-life, 5-9;
his studious inclinations, 10;
death of his mother, 10;
leaves school at the age of fifteen, 11;
is apprenticed to a surgeon, 11;
finishes his school-translation of the _Æneid_, 12;
reads Spenser's _Epithalamium_ and _Faerie Queene_, 12;
his first attempts at composition, 13;
goes to London and walks the hospitals, 14;
his growing passion for poetry, 15;
appointed dresser at Guy's Hospital, 16;
his last operation, 16;
his early life in London, 18;
his early poems, 20 seq.;
his introduction to Leigh Hunt, 24;
Hunt's great influence over him, 26 seq.;
his acquaintance with Shelley, 38;
his other friends, 40-45;
personal characteristics, 47-48;
goes to live with his brothers in the Poultry, 48;
publication of his first volume of poems, 65;
retires to the Isle of Wight, 66;
lives at Carisbrooke, 67;
changes to Margate, 68;
money troubles, 70;
spends some time at Canterbury, 71;
receives first payment in advance for _Endymion_, 71;
lives with his two brothers at Hampstead, 71;
works steadily at _Endymion_, 71-72;
makes more friends, 73;
writes part of _Endymion_ at Oxford, 76;
his love for his sister Fanny, 77;
stays at Burford Bridge, 80;
goes to the 'immortal dinner,' 82;
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