Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
Hampstead (Well Walk), 33-40, 46, 53-67, 71-78, 109-114, 161-187;
Hampstead (Wentworth Place), 187-273, 331-359;
Keswick, 114;
London, 1-4, 19, 39;
Margate, 10-17;
the _Maria Crowther_, 370;
Mortimer Terrace (Leigh Hunt's), 363;
Naples, 372-374;
Oxford, 19-32;
Rome, 376;
Scotland, 118-123, 125-158
Auchen-cairn, 119, 123;
Ballantrae, 127;
Cairndow, 136;
Dumfries, 118;
Girvan, 129;
Glasgow, 131;
Inverness, 158;
Inverary, 138, 142;
Island of Mull, 144-147;
Kilmelfort, 139;
Kingswells, 130, 133;
Kirkcudbright, 120;
Kirkoswald, 129;
Letter Findlay, 153;
Maybole, 130;
Newton-Stewart, 122, 123;
Oban, 141, 148;
Stranraer, 125;
Shanklin, 275-277;
Southampton, 4;
Teignmouth, 78-103;
Wentworth Place (Mrs. Brawne's), 364-370;
Wesleyan Place, Kentish Town, 360-362;
Winchester, 280-328.
To Bailey, Benjamin, 33, 36, 39, 40, 61, 78, 109, 111, 142, 280;
Brawne, Mrs., 372;
Brown, Charles, 325, 327, 360, 368, 370, 374, 376;
Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1, 2;
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 40, 163, 277, 322, 328, 354, 359;
Elmes, James, 272;
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1, 2, 13, 32, 53, 85, 94, 211, 213, 214, 215,
267, 274, 328, 363, 367;
Hessey, James Augustus, 167;
Hunt, Leigh, 10;
Keats, Fanny, 21, 118, 161, 162, 166, 182, 183, 185, 187, 213, 215,
216, 262, 263, 264, 265, 268, 270, 271, 272, 273, 275, 283, 331,
334, 335, 337, 347, 348, 350, 352, 353, 355, 356, 357, 358, 362,
363, 364, 368;
Keats, George and Georgiana, 168, 187, 217, 290;
Keats, George and Thomas, 4, 46, 48, 54, 57, 71, 75;
Keats, Georgiana, 338;
Keats, Thomas, 114, 123, 127, 136, 147, 153;
Reynolds, Jane, 24, 162;
Reynolds, John Hamilton, 3, 4, 6, 28, 44, 65, 67, 73, 82, 90, 96, 98,
100, 103, 132, 165, 276, 282, 319, 352;
Reynolds, Mariane and Jane, 19;
Reynolds, Mrs., 211;
Rice, James, 88, 186, 335, 350;
Severn, Joseph, 265, 332, 334;
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 365;
Taylor, John, 53, 58, 64, 71, 77, 99, 114, 212, 281, 286, 333, 360,
367;
Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, 17, 19, 78, 88;
Woodhouse, Richard, 210;
Wylie, Mrs., 158
Lewis, 177, 189, 197, 219, 222
Lewis, David, 349
Life, a palace with chambers, 107, 109;
a pleasant life, 73;
that projected by J. K., 94;
of a man worth anything is an allegory, 226
Lisle, 286
Listen, 198
Little, 106
Little Britain. _See_ Reynoldses, the
Llanos, Senor, xix.
"Lloyd, Lacy Vaughan," _i.e._ J. K., 362 and note
_Lord of the Isles_, 136
Lover, the, a ridiculous person, 293
Lucifer, 25
Lucius, Sir, 210
Ludolph (in _Otho the Great_), 319, 335
Lyceum, 295
Lycidas, 89
Lydia Languish, 83
Macbeth, 288
Machiavelli, 313
Mackenzie, 201
_Macmillan's Magazine_, xii. note
Macready, 335
Magdalen Hall visited, 19 note, 22;
a beautiful name, 84
Mahomet, 159
Maiden-Thought, the second chamber of life, 107
_Maid's Tragedy_, by Beaumont and Fletcher, 228
Man is like a hawk, 236;
is a poor forked creature, 254-257
Mancur or Manker, 208, 245
_Mandeville_, by Godwin, 51, 286
Margate visited, 10-17
_Maria Crowther_ (the ship in which K. went to Naples), 370, 371 note
Mariane. _See_ Reynolds, Mariane
_Mark, St., Eve of_, 221;
quoted, 302, 303
Marlowe, 247 note
Martin, 31, 44, 53, 194, 245, 249, 292, 293, 354
Martin, Miss, 225, 293
Mary Queen of Scots, 6, 32
Massinger, 324
Mathew, Caroline, 208
Mathew, Mrs., 208
_Matthew_ (Wordsworth's), 68
Matthews, the comedian, 297
Matrimony, K. declaims against, 180
Maw the apostate, 219
_Measure for Measure_ quoted, 11
Medicine, the study of, 104
Meg Merrilies's country, 119, 123
Mercury, 75, 344
Mermaid lines, 70, 71 and note
_Merry Wives of Windsor_ quoted, 104 and note
Methodists exposed by Horace Smith, 72
Millar, 339
Millar, Mary, 191, 218, 219, 248, 308, 339;
her suitors, 189, 210
Millar, Mrs., 170, 176, 178, 248
Milman, 87
Milton, 101, 106, 142, 174, 175, 263, 355;
anecdote of, 88, 89, 90;
his Hierarchies, 283;
his influence shown in _Hyperion_, 321;
his Latinised language, 313, 314;
a picture of him, 6;
his philosophy, 108;
quoted, 42, 237;
K.'s verses on his hair, 62;
compared to Wordsworth, 105
Minerva, 344;
her Aegis, 2
Monkhouse, 50, 229, 274
Montague, Lady M. W., 29
Moore, Thomas, 109, 193, 202, 232;
his _Tom Cribb's Memorial to Congress_, 228
Moore's Almanack, 21, 80, 346
Morbidity of temperament, 15
Morley, John, xi.
"Mother, your" (in K.'s American letters). _See_ Wylie, Mrs.
"Mother of Hermes! and still youthful Maia!" etc., 105
Mountains, effect of, 144
Mozart, 193, 194
Muggs, Nehemiah, by Horace Smith, 72
Mulgrave, Lord, 330 and note
Murray, 312
Naples Harbour, 372 _seq._
Napoleon, 174
"Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies," etc., 166
Negative capability needed by men of achievement, 48
Nelson, 98
Neville, Henry, 192, 193
Nevis, Ben, described, 153
Newport visited, 7, 8
Newton, Rev. John, xv.
Nicolini, the singer, 20
Niece. _See_ Keats, Emily
_Nightingale, Ode to_, 91 note, 272 note, 342
Nile, sonnets on, 72
Nimrod, 26
Niobe, 38
Northcote, 240
Norval, 337
"No! those days are gone away," etc., 69
"Not Aladdin magian," 150
"Not as a swordsman would I pardon crave," etc., 319
Novello, 191, 193, 195
Novello, Mrs., 197
_Nymphs, The_, by Leigh Hunt, 11
Odes, the, 362 note
"Of late two dainties were before me placed," etc., 139
"O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung," etc., 259
"O golden-tongued Romance with serene Lute!" etc., 59
"Old Meg she was a gipsy," etc., 120
Ollier, 1, 87, 179, 197, 219;
published K.'s _Poems_, 72;
his _Altam and his Wife_, 197
_One, Two, Three, Four_, by Reynolds, 295
"Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams," etc., 25
Ophelia, 80
Opie, Mrs., 72
Ops, 184
_Original Poems_, by Miss Taylor, 23
Orinda, the matchless. _See_ Philips, Mrs.
Orpheus, 214
"O soft embalmer of the still midnight," etc., 259
_Othello_, 329
_Otho the Great_, 277, 279, 280, 281, 284, 285, 323, 325, 335, 336, 340
(sometimes referred to as the, or our, tragedy)
"O those whose face hath felt the winter's wind," etc., 74
"Over the hill and over the dale," etc., 90
"O what can ail thee knight-at-arms," etc., 250
Oxford described, 20, 22;
visited, 19-32
_Oxford Herald_, The, 112 and note
Paine, Tom, 299
Paolo, 246
_Paradise Lost_, 42, 89, 108, 281, 282, 313
Park, Mungo, 50
Parsons, 221 _seq._, 233, 268
Patmore, 106
Payne, Howard, 191
Peachey, 192, 217, 226
Peachey family, 49
Peacock, 87
"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes," etc., 293
Peona, 38
Pepin, King, the History of, 21
Percy Street (_i.e._ the Hesseys), 54, 78, 88, 100, 114, 282
_Peter Bell_, by Wordsworth, and the parody by Reynolds, 240, 248, 249
Petzelians, 10
Phaethon, 12
Philips, Mrs., her verses to Mrs. M[ary] A[ubrey], 29
Phillips, old, 26
Philosopher's stone, 32
Philosopher's back-garden, 89
Physician, K.'s thoughts of becoming a, 233
_Pilgrim's Progress_, 21
Pindar, Peter, 49, 72, 348
Pistol (in _Henry IV._), 84 and note
Pizarro, 254
Pliny, 233
_Plutarch's Lives_, 14
_Pocket-book, The Literary_, by Leigh Hunt, 190, 197
Poems of 1817, 2 note
Poems, original, by Miss Taylor, 23
"Poet, he is quite the little," said of K., 219
Poet, the Northern, _i.e._ Wordsworth, 28
"Poet, why I should be a," 12
Poets, advertisement to, in the _Chronicle_, 46
Poets, the English, K. expects to be among, after death, 171
Poets, the vices of, 211, 212
Poetry, axioms of, 77;
genius of, 167, 168;
effect of writing on K., 18;
K. cannot exist without, 9, 165;
K. cannot write when "fevered in a contrary direction," 14;
invention the Polar Star of, 34;
a Jack o'Lantern, 81;
other things necessary, 101;
not written under the shadow of public thought, 96;
should be retiring, unobtrusive, 68
Politics, 298
Pope's _Homer_, 13, 14
Popularity, 281
Porter, Jane, 219
Porter, the Misses, 192, 193
_Pot of Basil_, 101, 113
Present, an anonymous, 192, 199
Primrose Island, the Isle of Wight, 7
Proserpine, 142
Prose writing, genius of K. in, xi.
Protector of Fanny K., 216
Protestantism discussed, 108
_Psyche, Ode to_, 115 note, 259
Public, the, an enemy to K., 96
Punctuation peculiar, preserved, xiv.
Pythagoras, 89
_Quarterly Review_, the, 37, 113, 167, 171, 224, 302
_Queen Mab_, 48
R.'s, the Miss. _See_ Reynolds, Misses
Rabelais, 76
Radcliffe, Mrs., 83, 221
Rakehell, 44
Raleigh, Sir W., 20
Raphael, 17, 201
"Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud," etc., 158
Red Riding Hood, 177
Redhall, 52, 195, 202
Reformation, effects of, 108
Religion, K. on, 81, 256
_Revolt of Islam_, 48 note
*Reynolds, Jane, xii., 8, 27, 33, 43;
as St. Jane, 39;
a translator, 24
*Reynolds, John Hamilton, xi., 2, 5, 6, 17, 18, 27, 33, 34, 35, 36, 46,
48, 54, 57, 62, 71, 130, 142, 162, 164, 179, 198, 218, 223, 245,
311, 324, 335, 352, 354, 376 (sometimes as John);
anecdote of, 308;
two articles by, 72;
his character, 344;
defends K., 171;
writes for the _Edinburgh Review_, 60, 190, 198;
poetical epistle by K. to, 91;
his farce, 295;
his _Garden of Florence_, 67 and note;
his illness, 76, 90, 97, 100, 111, 113;
he takes up law, 323, 325;
his quarrel with Haydon, 55, 61;
his _Peter Bell_, 240, 248, 249;
his sonnets, 3 note, 67 and note, 69;
his Spenserian, 103, 104
*Reynolds, Mariane, xii., 26, 27, 33, 43;
her attitude towards Bailey, 225
Reynolds, the Misses, 6, 9, 44, 102, 135, 172, 173, 190, 218, 225
(sometimes as sisters of J. H. R.)
*Reynolds, Mrs., 36, 44, 102, 114, 135, 172, 225, 264, 348 (mother of
J. H. R.)
Reynoldses, the, 19, 44, 49, 97, 111, 142, 164, 165 note, 198, 225, 322
(sometimes as Little Britain)
"Reynolds's Cove," a spot so called by K., 28, 31
_Rhyme, Essays in_, by Miss Taylor, 23
*Rice, James, xii., 9, 31, 36, 50, 52, 64, 84, 102, 104, 111, 135, 164,
166, 177, 198, 219, 223, 225, 249, 282, 292, 345, 354, 373;
(once as Master Jemmy) and the barmaids, 90;
his character, 344;
his ill health, 33, 44, 58, 273, 276, 277
Richards, 3, 72, 219, 241, 344
Richardson, 301, 330
_Rimini, The Story of_, by Hunt, 10, 58
Ritchie, 50, 198
Robertson's _America_, 254
Robin Hood, 125;
sonnets to, by Reynolds, 67 note;
J. K. answers above, 68, 69 and note
Robinson, Crabb, 72 and note
Robinson, Miss, 196
Rodwell, 53
Rogers, 218, 232
Romance, a fine thing, 88;
projected by K., 32
Rome visited, 376, 377
Romeo, 25
Rondeau, K.'s notion of, 207
Ronsard translated by K., 165, 166
Ross, Captain, 189
_Round Table_, by Hazlitt, 31 and note
Ruth, 125
Salmasius, 88, 89
Salmon, Mr., 212
Sam [Brawne], 373
Sancho, 67