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Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

John Keats

his appreciation of _Endymion_, 31; his love affairs, 224 _seq._; K.'s visit to him at Oxford, 19 and note Bailey, Mrs., 281 Barbara Lewthwaite, 249 "Bards of passion and of mirth," 206 Barley, Rigs of, by Burns, 133 Barnes, 111 Barnes, Miss, 231 Bartolozzi, 195, 196 _Basil, Pot of_, 113, 166, 171, 221, 280; few stanzas of, written in folio Shakspeare, 101 "Bathsheba," by Wilkie, 76 Beattie, 201 Beaumont, Sir George, 329, 330 note Beaumont and Fletcher, 228 Bedhampton, visit to, 216, 219, 221 _Beggar of Cumberland_, 31 Bellaston, Lady, 302 Benjamin, Mr., 317 Bensley, 10 Bentley (J. K.'s landlord), 33 note, 153, 194, 219, 337 Bentley, Mrs., 33, 153, 194, 219, 239, 337, 365 Bentley children, the, 33, 103 note, 188 Bertrand, General, 17 note Betty Foy, 249 Bewick [J.], 56, 58, 96, 240 Bible, the, 177, 225, 226 Birkbeck, 175, 188, 194, 217, 226, 238, 257, 268, 342 Birkbeck, the Misses, 247 Blackwood, 60, 164, 167, 171, 194, 234, 323 Boccaccio, 101; tales from, 280 Bonchurch described, 276, 279 "Book, my" (the vol. containing _Lamia_, _Isabella_, _The Eve of St. Agnes_, _Hyperion_, and the _Odes_), 362, 363, 368, 370 Boxer (Mrs. Dilke's dog), 26 Box Hill ascended, 45 Boys, the. _See_ Brown's brothers Bradshaw, Richard, 119 Braggadochio, 340 Brawne, Fanny, 191 and note, 218, 244; described, 196; K.'s feelings towards, 371, 372, 373, 374; letters to, xii. note; reasons for their being omitted, xvii. *Brawne, Mrs., 191, 202, 219, 224, 239, 244, 349, 365 [Brawne], Sam, 373 Briggs, 341 Brigs of Ayr, 133 Britain, Little. _See_ Reynoldses, the British Gallery seen, 76 British Museum, 329 Brothers. _See_ Keats, George and Tom *Brown, Charles Armitage, xviii., 26, 33, 35, 48, 56, 58, 76, 82, 98, 119, 123, 128, 133, 136, 138, 139, 141, 145, 148, 165, 177, 191, 194, 195 note, 196, 198, 200, 209, 218, 219, 221, 240, 243, 244, 245, 264, 272, 273, 279, 281, 284, 286, 289, 292, 301, 306, 307, 309, 314, 319, 323, 325, 328, 332, 333 note, 334, 336, 344, 345, 347 and note, 348, 352, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360 note, 363, 369; anecdote of, 295, 296; as a draughtsman, 274, 351; and Jenny Jacobs, 279; a joke on, 316, 320; his kindness, 234; lends K. money, 274, 290; lives with K., 187 note, 188, 331 note; his odd dislikes, 324; a story by, 219, 220, 224; tour to Scotland with K., 110 [114-161]; writes a tragedy with K. _See Otho the Great_ Brown's brothers, 239 note, 245 Brown, John, 245 Brown, Mrs. Septimus, 218 B[rown], Miss, 196 Bucke, Mr. (dramatic author), 241 Buffon, 233, 346 Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_, 21; his _Emblems_, 309 Buonaparte, 20, 173, 219; compared to Mark Anthony, 17 Burdett, Sir F., 174 Burford Bridge visited, 40-45 Burleigh, Lord, 361 Burns, 130, 131, 132, 234; spoilt by the Kirk, 124; lines after visiting his country, 146; after visiting his tomb, 117; his misery, 134; his native place described, 133 Burns, Mrs., 118 Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_ quoted, 296, 297 Butler, 76, 102, 202 Butler, Sarah, 102 Byron, 33, 106, 163, 173, 198, 221, 226, 231, 240; his _Don Juan_, 297; Fourth canto of _Childe Harold_ expected, 76; _Don Giovanni_ expected, 218 Caesar, Julius, 80 _Caleb Williams_, 205 Caliban, 7 note, 58, 245 note Cameron, Mrs., 155 _seq._ Canning, 345 Canterbury, a visit to, projected, 18 _Cap and Bells_, 331 note, 333 and note, 362 note Capital letters, peculiar use of, xiv. Capper, 178, 181, 294 Carisbrooke visited, 6 _seq._ Carlisle, Deist bookseller, 220, 299 Carlisle visited, 117 Cary's _Dante_, 113 "Castle, The Enchanted," by Claude, 91 and note Castlereagh, 90, 345; An Ode to, 335 _Cave of Despair_, Spenser's, a picture by Severn, 334 and note, 355 Ceres, 142 Chambers of Life--the infant or thoughtless Chamber, and the Chamber of Maiden thought, 107, 108; the third Chamber, 109 _Champion_, The, a number written by K., 47, 49, 52; a sonnet by K. printed in, 8 Chapman's _Homer_, 363 and note Charlemagne, 118 Charles. _See_ Wylie, Charles Charles I., 7 Charles II., 90 Charles Stuart, a "Jacobin" song on, 148 Charlotte, Princess, 192 "Charmian," 165 note, 172, 173. _See_ Cox, Miss Charlotte Chatterton, _Endymion_, dedicated to, 97; Hazlitt on, 76; writes the purest English, 313, 321 Chaucer, 18, 103, 228, 333; his Gallicisms, 313, 321 Chesterfield, Lord, 355 Chichester visited, 212, 217, 218 "Chief of Organic Numbers!" etc., 62 Christ Rejected (Haydon's picture), 47, 94 Christianity v. _The Examiner_, 10; Shakspeare's, 11 Christians, a query concerning, 10 Christie, 44 _Chronicle_, The, 46, 171, 247; John Scott's defence of K. in, 167 Cinderella, 21, 232 Circe (in _Endymion_), 99 Claret, a rhapsody concerning, 222, 223 Clark, Dr., 370, 376 *Clarke, C. C., xvii., 10, 219; his influence on K., xviii. Claude's "Enchanted Castle," 91 and note Cleopatra, 125, 173 Clinker, Humphrey, 52 Cobbett, 208, 218, 222, 355 Cockney school, 39, 60 and note Cockney, the young, xvi. Coleridge, 38, 72; his limitations, 48; his talk, 244 Collins, Hazlitt on, 76 Colnaghi, 300 Colvin, S., allowed H. Buxton Forman to use autographs in his possession, xii. note; his life of K. in _Men of Letters_, xi., 331 note, 347 note Commonplace people, Hazlitt on, 37 _Comus_, 89, 108 Constable, the bookseller, 60 Continent, K.'s thoughts of visiting the, 18 Cook, Captain, 346 Cordelia, 80 _Coriolanus_, Hazlitt on, 229 Corneille, 95 and note C[ornwall] B[arry], Mr., 353, 354 Country, the, K.'s opinion of, 209; K. thinks of settling in, 4 Covent Garden Tragedy [_Retribution, or the Chieftain's Daughter_], an article on, 49 and note Cowes visited, 7 Cowper, 72; as a letter-writer, xiv. Cox, Miss Charlotte, 165 and note, 172 and note, 173. _See_ "Charmian" Crabbe, 72, 232 Cripps, 32, 37, 40, 41, 44, 52, 56, 62, 71; introductions to Haydon, 32, 53 Criticism, K.'s independence of, 167 Croft, Dr., 72 Cromwell, 174 _Crusoe, Robinson_, 26, 338 "Crystalline Brother of the belt of Heaven," etc., 46 _Cumberland Beggar_, the, 31 Dance, a Highland, described, 116 Dante, 95 note, 113, 145, 214, 246, 313 Davenports, the, 220, 231, 239, 348 David, 25, 325 "Dear Reynolds! as last night I lay in bed," etc., 91 Death, K.'s thoughts of, when alone, 112 _Deist, The_, 299 Dennet, Miss, a Columbine, 51 "Dentatus," Haydon's picture, 87 Devereux, 362 Devon, Duke of, 72 Devonshire described, 75, 79, 80, 83, 85, 91, 95, 97, 98, 101; like Lydia Languish, 83 Dewint, 114 Dewint, Mrs., 114 *Dilke, Charles Wentworth, xii. note, 9, 26, 31, 47, 48, 56, 59, 76, 81, 128, 146, 158, 195 note, 200, 202, 203, 208, 239, 245, 266, 269, 292, 296, 327, 340, 343, 372, 374; a capital friend, 51; takes the _Champion_, 51, 58; his character, 314; his devotion to his son, 222, 240, 241, 295; editor follows his dates, xiii.; a "Godwin Methodist," 314; a "Godwin perfectibility Man," 175; ill, 170, 348; neighbour to K., 187 note Dilke, Charley, 222, 224, 240, 241, 264, 279, 292, 295, 314, 360 Dilke, Mrs., 4, 8, 9, 26, 31, 51, 164, 170, 183, 189, 198, 202, 209, 210, 213, 217, 223, 224, 240, 262, 264, 269, 274, 292, 325, 328, 332, 336, 340, 349, 354, 357, 359, 360, 365, 374; her brother, 359 Dilke, William, 26 and note Dinah, Aunt, 6 Diocletian, 174 Diomed, 80 Dolabella (in _Anthony and Cleopatra_), 16 Don Juan, 297 Drawing of K., a, 2 and note Drewe family, the, 197 Drewe, George, 198 Drury Lane Pantomime [_Don Giovanni_], 49 and note, 55 Dryope (in _Endymion_), 78 Du Bois, 47, 198 Dunghill, Duchess of, 126 Duns, besieged by, 19, 28 Duerer, Albert, 330 _Edinburgh Review_, the, 37, 39, 40, 113, 190, 301, 302, 326 Edmund Ironside, 80 Elements, the, regarded as comforters, 25 _Elizabeth, Queen_, Holinshed's, 333; her Latin exercises, 355 Elizabethans, compared with moderns, 68 Ellenborough, Lord, 47 Ellipsis, recommended by Haydon, 2 Elliston, 335, 336 Elmes, James, 272 note, 274 _Emblems_, the, of Bunyan, 309 _Endymion_ ["I stood tiptoe upon a little hill"], 3 note _Endymion_, 27, 34, 35, 161, 302, 366. _First book_ begun, 17; prospects of, 57; in the press, 63; readings in, 64: _second book_ copied, 71; proofs of, 72: _third book_, progressing, 31; finished, 33: _third and fourth books_, copied, 78: _fourth book_, quoted, 84; finished, 88. Alterations suggested by Taylor, 77; anxiety to get it printed, 78; appreciated by Bailey, 31; dedicated to Chatterton, 97; described, 168; cheque sent to author of it, 192, 199; engravings by Haydon for it, 57; referred to by K. as a pioneer, 77; admired by the Miss Porters, 192, 193; the preface to it, 88, 96, 97, 98; readings in, 99; called slipshod, 167 and note; the story of it told to Fanny K., 22 Enfield, school at, xviii. English, Chatterton's is the purest, 313 Enobarb (in _Anthony and Cleopatra_), 16 Erasmus, 10, 17 Esau, 68 Euclid, 29, 177 Eustace, 163 _Evadne_, by Sheil, 231, 232 Evans, Sir Hugh (in _Merry Wives_), 104 and note Eve, 103, 255 "Ever let the Fancy roam," etc., 203 _Examiner_, The, 17, 40, 44, 47, 51, 194, 208, 219, 234, 328; its defence of K., 171; K.'s notice of Reynolds' _Peter Bell_ in it, 248, 249; v. Christianity, 10 _Excursion_, Wordsworth's, one of the three good things of the age, 53, 54 Fagging at schools, 178 _Fairies, Chorus of_, 251 Falstaff, 77, 351 Fame, sonnets on, 258 "Fame like a wayward girl will still be coy," etc., 258 Family letters, xi. Fanny. _See_ Keats, Fanny "Far, far around shall those dark-crested trees," etc., 115 Fazio, 72 Fenbank, Mr. P., 199 Fielding, 52, 200 Fingal's Cave described, 150 Fitzgerald, Miss, 193 Fladgate, Frank, 133 Flageolet, not admired, 161, 162 Fleet Street household (_i.e._ Taylor's. _See_ p. 286), 54 Fletcher, Mrs. Philips, compared to, 31 Fletcher and Beaumont, 228 Flirting, 173 _Florence, A Garden of_, by Reynolds, 67 and note Florimel, 248, 249 _Foliage_, by Leigh Hunt, 11 note; reviewed in the Quarterly, 113 Forman, H. Buxton, his edition, xii.; letters to Fanny K. printed in this volume by his permission, xii. note Fortunatus's purse, 32 "Four Seasons fill the measure of the year," etc., 81 Framptons, the, 238 Francesca, 58, 246 Franklin, Benjamin, 175 French dramatists, 95 and note French language inferior to English, 23 Frogley, Miss, 192 Fry, 290 Fuseli, 306, 330 G. minor (_see_ Wylie, Georgiana), 192 Gaelic talked, 140 Gattie, 197 Gay, 106 Genesis, 26 Genius, of K. in prose writing, xi.;