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;