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Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

John Keats

men of, have not individuality, 41 George. _See_ Keats, George George, little (_see_ Wylie, Georgiana), 200, 201 George II., 362 _Gertrude of Wyoming_, 342 Ghosts, 44 Gibbon, 76 Gifford, 220, 226 _seq._, 229; his attack on K., 192 _Giovanni, Don_, by Byron, expected, 218 Gipsies, 37 _Gipsy, The_, of Wordsworth, 37 Glasgow visited, 131, 132 Glaucus (in _Endymion_), 99 Gleig, xix., 35, 36, 44, 63, 82, 113; described, 35 note Gleig, Miss, 225 Gliddon, 290 Godwin, 175, 205, 206, 314; his _Mandeville_, 51, 286; his _Caleb Williams_ and _St. Leon_, 205 Gray, 106; as a letter writer, xiv.; Hazlitt on, 76 "Great spirits now on earth are sojourning," etc., 2 Greek, K. determines to learn, 101 Green, Mr., 244 Griselda, 245 Grover, Miss, 339 Guido, 201 Gyges's ring, 32 H., Miss, 231, 232 _Hamlet_, 80, 106 Hammond, 309 Handwriting of K., xiv. Happiness not expected, 38 "Happy happy glowing fire," etc., 251 _Harold, Childe_, 68 Harris, Bob, 51, 58 Hart, 340 Haslam, 51, 56, 159, 178, 181, 187, 188, 189, 195, 197, 200, 202, 209, 210, 219, 224, 228, 235, 264, 270, 284, 307, 342, 344, 369, 373, 375; his father's death, 238, 266; a kind friend, 269, 339; his "lady and family," 340; in love, 293; "is very Beadle to an amorous sigh," 333; a message to, 377 Hastings, Lady, met at, 179, 223 *Haydon, xii. note, 2 and note, 5, 8, 9, 39, 41, 47, 54, 58, 195, 197, 198, 201, 240, 272, 340, 343, 355, 356, 361; his autobiography, 50 and note; his "Christ" contained a portrait of K., 16; and is "tinted into immortality," 94; his "Dentatus," 87; on Elgin marbles, 75; his eyes weak, 219; on French dramatists, etc., 95 and note; his "Life and Love," 330 and note; loved as a brother, 15; his pictures one of the three glories of the age, 53, 54; his portrait, 6; quarrels with Hunt, 33, 34, 35, 56, 61; and with Reynolds, 55, 56; discovers a seal of Shakspeare, 85; "this glorious Haydon and all his creation," 1; his "Solomon," 214 Hazlewood, 178, 181, 294 Hazlitt, 3, 96, 101, 106, 107, 109, 111, 179, 191, 197, 205, 218, 326; his prosecution of Blackwood, 164; his essay on commonplace people, 37; the only good damner, 87; his lectures, 64, 72, 76, 332; his letter to Gifford quoted, 226 _seq._, 229; on Shakspeare, 16, 56, 58; his review of Southey, 10 and note, 16; his depth of taste, 53, 54; his _Round Table_, 31 and note Hazlitt, Mrs., 218 _Heart of Midlothian_ (an opera), 249 Heart's affections and beauty of Imagination the only certain things, 41 Hebrew, the study of, advised, 24 "He is to weet a melancholy Carle," etc., 244 Helen, 125 "Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port," etc., 65 Hengist, 90 Henrietta Street. _See_ Wylies, the Henry. _See_ Wylie, Henry Herculaneum, a piece of, 83 "Here all the summer could I stay," etc., 85 Hermes, 223 "Hermia and Helena," by Severn, 265 Hesketh, Lady, xv. *Hessey, xi., 53, 100, 114, 164, 177, 184 note, 199, 282, 286 Hessey, Mrs., 88 Hesseys, the. _See_ Percy Street Hill, 47 Hilton, 114, 240 Hindoos, 257 Hobhouse, 208 Hodgkinson, 271, 284, 297, 363 Hogarth, 107, 200, 351 Hogg, 234 Holbein, 361 Holinshed's _Queen Elizabeth_, 333 Holts, one of the, 218 _Homer_, 80, 95 note, 101, 134, 144; Pope's, 13, 14; Chapman's, 363 and note Hone, 47, 51, 220 Honeycomb, Mr., 28 Hook, 309 Hooker, Bishop, 173 Hopkinses, the, 38 Hoppner, 189, 190 Horace, 353 Houghton, Lord, xix., 289 note, 347 note; his Life of K., xii. "How fever'd is that Man who cannot look," etc., 258 Howard, John, 173 Hubbard, Mother, 177 Hugh, Parson, 104 and note Humour superior to wit, 47 Hunger and sleepiness, 122 Hunt, Henry, his triumphal entry into London, 299, 329 Hunt, John, 17, 28, 58, 67 note, 72, 191 *Hunt, Leigh, xviii., 2 note, 3, 9, 49, 51, 63, 68, 72, 76, 96, 174, 177, 179, 191, 232, 239, 240, 248, 249, 307, 343, 353, 354, 365, 366, 374; attacked, 39, 113; "Cockney school articles" thought to be by Scott, 60 and note; criticises _Endymion_, 57, 58; his _Foliage_, 11 note; damned Hampstead, 87; his influence on K., xviii.; K. his _eleve_, 35; K. moves near to him, 360 note; K. stays in his house, 363 note, 364; his kindness, 368; his lock of Milton's hair, 62; his money difficulties, 218; his _Nymphs_, 11; his sonnet on the Nile, 72; his paper on Preternatural History, 234; his _Literary Pocket-book_, 190, 197; his quarrel with Haydon, 33, 34, 35, 56, 61; his self-delusions, 15 Hunt, Mrs., 13, 51, 55 _Hyperion_, 331 note, 362 note; begun, 194, 195; not continued, 221; continued, 280; given up because of its Miltonic inversions, 321 Iago, 184 Idleness, 278 "If by dull rhymes our English must be chained," etc., 261 "I had a dove and the sweet dove died," 207 "I have examin'd and do find," etc., by Mrs. Philips, 29 Imagination, 41, 42, 43, 108; the rudder of Poetry, 34; its beauty and the heart's affections alone certain, 41; compared to Adam's dream (_Paradise Lost_, Book viii.), 41, 42 Imogen, 24, 184 _Indolence, Ode on_, 235 and note; _The Castle of_, by Thomson, 234 Invention, the Polar Star of Poetry, 34 Iona [Iconkill] visited, 148, 149 Ireby, 117; country dancing school at, 116 Ireland visited, 124 Irish and Scotch compared, 126, 129 _Isabella_, or _The Pot of Basil_, 109, 113, 362 note Isis, K.'s boating on the, 28 Italian, studied, 101, 289; the language full of poetry, 23 Italy, xix. "It keeps eternal whisperings around," etc., 8 Jacobs, Jenny, and Brown, 279 Jacques, 68 James I., 361 Jane, St. _See_ Reynolds, Jane Jean, Burns', 134 Jeffrey, xii., xix. Jemmy, Master. _See_ Rice, James Jennings, Mrs., 290, 318; referred to as "my aunt," 274 _Jessy of Dumblane_, 160 Jesus and Socrates, 236 _Joanna, To_, by Wordsworth, 116 note John (_see_ Reynolds), 27, 33, 162 John, St., 325 Jonson, Ben, 247 note Journal-letters, xii. Jove better than Mercury, 75, 97 Judea, 11 Juliet, 24, 135 Junkets, _i.e._ John Keats, 13 Kean, 46, 48, 84, 131, 191, 226, 241, 280, 284, 285, 286, 291, 319, 336, 340 Keasle, 189 Keasle, Miss, 170, 189, 308 Keasle, Mrs., 189 Keats, Emily (daughter of George K.), 294, 319, 339, 344, 347; her birth announced, 273 Keats family, letters to, xi. *Keats, Fanny, xii. note, 6, 51, 58, 153, 158, 169, 177, 197, 223, 228, 292, 371, 375, 377; she is kept from K. by the Abbeys, 145, 218; the story of _Endymion_ is related to her, 22 Keats, Frances. _See_ Keats, Fanny *Keats, George, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 22, 23, 34, 38, 49, 52, 84, 101, 109, 112, 114, 119, 132, 142, 152, 153, 161, 166, 187, 213, 217, 263, 265, 268, 270, 273, 275, 277, 284, 285, 320, 337, 340, 341, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 349, 358, 359, 361, 362, 369, 375, 376, 377; his affairs troublesome, 324, 331, 336; he goes to America, 109, 182; he visits England, 328 and note; he returns to America, 358; he is more than a brother to John K., 158; he copies John K.'s verses, 342; he is devoted to his little girl, 339; bad news from him, 321, 322, 332; J. K.'s sonnet to him, 72 Keats, Georgiana. _See_ Wylie, Georgiana Keats, John, his genius in prose-writing, xi.; his Life by Colvin, xi., 331 note; and by Lord Houghton, xi.; the characteristics of his letters, xiv. xv.; his character, "the young Cockney," Shakspeare in his blood, xvi., 14; his reticence about Fanny Brawne, xvi.; the influence of Haydon, Leigh Hunt, and Charles Cowden Clarke over him, xviii.; his school at Enfield, xviii.; his portrait, 2; his thoughts of settling in the country, 4; he writes in the _Champion_, 8, 47, 49; he cannot exist without poetry, 9, 165; "why I should be a poet," 12; his money troubles, 14, 19, 28; he reads and writes eight hours a day, but cannot compose when "fevered in a contrary direction," 14; his morbidity, 15, 38, 110, 111; his excitement during composition, 18; his thoughts of visiting the country, 18; he writes with energy, 23; he regards the elements as comforters, 25; he projects a romance, 32; he expects to be called Hunt's _eleve_, 35; he does not expect happiness, 38; his article on "Covent Garden," 49 and note; his views of religion, 81, 256; his plan of life, 94; he regards the public as an enemy but does not write under its shadow, 96; he studies Italian, 101, 289; he determines to learn Greek, 101; his thoughts of death when alone, 112; is noticed in the _Edinburgh_ and _Quarterly_, 113; his ill-health, 122, 347-377; his independence of criticism, 167; he expects to be among the English poet after his death, 171; his defence by Reynolds, 171; his declamations against matrimony, 180; his pleasure in solitude, 181; he talks of giving up writing, 184; a sonnet and cheque to him, 192, 199; his notion of a rondeau, 207; his thoughts of the country, 209; his notice of Reynolds' _Peter Bell_, 248, 249; he feels himself the protector of Fanny K., 216; "he is quite the little poet," 219; his rhapsody about claret, 222, 223; his scorn of parsons, 221 _seq._, 233, 268; he talks of turning physician, 233; his portrait by Severn, 274; his change of character, 309; his distrust of Americans, 312; his feelings towards Fanny Brawne during his last illness, 371, 372 *Keats, Tom, 8, 9, 11, 44, 47 note, 79, 82, 84, 85, 87, 94, 100, 112, 135, 158, 159, 165, 169, 175, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 215, 301 note, 349; his death, 187 and note; his illness, 43, 49, 63, 103, 161, 162, 164, 168, 186, 187; his belief in immortality, 188; his likeness to Fanny K., 397; his low spirits, 98; Wells' treatment of him, 239, 245 Kelly, Mr., 124 Kemble, 198 Kent, Miss, 13, 51 Keswick visited, 114, 115 Kingston, 47, 50 and note, 53, 95, 196; his criticisms, 98 Kirkman, 190, 208, 209; his uncle William, 208 Kneller, Sir G., 361 Knox, John, 220 Kotzebue, 241, 300 _La Belle Dame sans Merci_, 250 Lacon, Fool, 339 _Lady of the Lake_, 136 Lakes, the, described, 114, 115 Lamb, Charles, 39, 191, 316, 361; his practical jokes, 50 _Lamia_, 277, 280, 294, 362 note; finished, 288; quoted, 289 and note Landseer, 50, 58 _Laon and Cythna_, by Shelley, 48 and note Launce (in _Two Gentlemen of Verona_), 4 _Lear, King_, 47, 58, 63, 80; a sonnet on, 59 _Leech-gatherer_, the, 31 Leicester, Sir John, 240 Lely, Sir Peter, 361 _Leon, St._, by Godwin, 205 Letters, those to Fanny Brawne omitted, xvii.; frivolous classification of, 106, 163; characteristics of K.'s, xv.; Dated from, Burford Bridge, 40-44; Carisbrooke, 6; Carlisle, 116; Donaghadee, 124; Featherstone Buildings, 48; Fleet Street (Wells'), 71;