Keats, John, 1795-1821; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography
he visits Devonshire, 87;
goes on a walking tour in Scotland with Charles Brown, 113;
crosses over to Ireland, 116;
returns to Scotland and visits Burns' country, 118;
sows there the seeds of consumption, 120;
returns to London, 120;
is attacked in _Blackwood's Magazine_ and the _Quarterly Review_, 121;
Lockhart's conduct towards him, 122;
death of his young brother Tom, 128;
goes to live with Charles Brown, 128;
falls in love, 130-131;
visits friends in Chichester, 133;
suffers with his throat, 133;
his correspondence with his brother George, 139;
goes to Shanklin, 143;
collaborates with Brown in writing _Otho_, 143;
goes to Winchester, 144;
returns again to London, 146;
more money troubles, 146;
determines to make a living by journalism, 146;
lives by himself, 146;
goes back to Mr Brown, 181;
_Otho_ is returned unopened after having been accepted, 182;
want of means prevents his marriage, 190;
his increasing illness, 191 seq.;
temporary improvement in his health, 194;
publishes another volume of poems, 196;
stays with Leigh Hunt's family, 197;
favourable notice in the _Edinburgh Review_, 197;
lives with the family of Miss Brawne, 198;
goes with Severn to spend the winter in Italy, 199;
the journey improves his health, 200;
writes his last lines, 201;
stays for a time at Naples, 203;
goes on to Rome, 203-204;
further improvement in his health, 205;
sudden and last relapse, 205;
he is tenderly nursed by his friend Severn, 206;
speaks of himself as already living a 'posthumous life,' 207;
grows worse and dies, 208;
various tributes to his memory, 214.
His genius awakened by the _Faerie Queene_, 13;
influence of other poets on him, 21;
experiments in language, 21, 64, 147, 169;
employment of the 'Heroic' couplet, 27, 30;
element and spirit of his own poetry, 50;
experiments in metre, 52;
studied musical effect of his verse, 55;
his Grecian spirit, 58, 77, 95, 114, 154;
view of the aims and principles of poetry, 61;
imaginary dependence on Shakspere, 69;
thoughts on the mystery of Evil, 88;
puns, 72, 202;
his poems Greek in idea, English in manner, 96;
his poetry a true spontaneous expression of his mind, 110;
power of vivifying, 161;
verbal licenses, 169;
influence on subsequent poets, 218;
felicity of phrase, 219.
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