V. 'ONWARD THE TIGER AND THE LEOPARD PANTS, WITH ASIAN ELEPHANTS' 230 From an engraving after a sarcophagus relief at Woburn Abbey. VI. A SACRIFICE TO APOLLO 264 From an engraving by Vivares and Woollett after Claude. VII. THE ENCHANTED CASTLE 266 From an engraving by Vivares and Woollett after Claude. VIII. 'AND THERE I'D SIT AND READ ALL DAY LIKE A PICTURE OF SOMEBODY READING' 338 From an oil painting by Joseph Severn in the National Portrait Gallery IX. 'FIGURES ON A GREEK VASE--A MAN AND TWO WOMEN' 342 From an etching in Piranesi's _Vasi e Candelabri_. X. PAGE FROM _ISABELLA; OR, THE POT OF BASIL_ 394 From an autograph by Keats in the British Museum. XI. THE SOSIBIOS VASE: PROFILE AND FRIEZE 416 From an engraving in the _Musee Napoleon_. XII. 'WHAT PIPES AND TIMBRELS? WHAT WILD ECSTASY?' 418 Bacchanalian friezes, (A) from the Townley Vase in the British Museum, (B) from the Borghese Vase in the Louvre. XIII. PAGE FROM A LETTER OF HAYDON TO ELIZABETH BARRETT, 1834 532 CHAPTER I 1795-1815: BIRTH AND PARENTAGE: SCHOOLDAYS AND APPRENTICESHIP Obscure family history--The Finsbury livery stable--The surname Keats--Origin probably Cornish--Character of parents--Traits of childhood--The Enfield School--The Edmonton home--The Pymmes Brook--Testimonies of schoolmates--Edward Holmes--Charles Cowden Clarke--New passion for reading--Left an orphan--Apprenticed to a surgeon--Relations with his master--Readings in the poets--The _Faerie Queene_--The Spenser fever--Other poetic influences--Influences of nature--Early attempts in verse--Early sympathizers--George Felton Mathew--Move to London.