Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
Sandt, 300
Sannazaro, 313
Sappho, 29
Saturn, 184
Saunders, 293
Sawrey, Dr., 49, 166
Sawrey, Mrs., 238, 239
Scenery, 80
Schoolmaster of K., xviii.
Scotch, the, 118, 124, 126
Scotland visited, 110, 118-158
Scott, John (editor of the _Champion_), 8 note, 50, 167 note
Scott, Mrs., 72
Scott, Sir W., 76, 198;
author of "Cockney" articles, 60
and note; compared to Smollett, 51, 52
Sea, a sonnet on the, 8
Serjeant, the, of Fielding or Smollett, 52
*Severn, Joseph, xix., 3, 49, 186, 231, 293, 306;
orders for drawing from Emperor of Russia, 52;
his illness, 171;
his "Hermia and Helena," 265;
draws a head of K., 274;
his "Cave of Despair," 334 and note, 335;
is with K. during his last illness and death, 373, 375, 377 note
Shakspeare, xvi., xviii., 1 note, 5 note, 7 note, 8, 9, 16, 17, 25, 47,
48, 72, 77, 80, 81, 84, 95 note, 101, 106, 107, 131, 177, 189,
201, 221, 226, 228, 229, 263, 281, 337, 343, 355;
his Christianity, 11;
a presiding genius to K., 14;
his seal, 85;
his sonnets, 45
Shandy, Tristram, 344
Shanklin described, 6 _seq._;
visited, 275-280
Sheil's play, 231, 232
*Shelley, 12 and note, 33, 35, 76, 365;
captious about _Endymion_, 58;
his _Laon and Cythna_ and _Queen Mab_ objected to, 48;
as a letter-writer, xv.;
his sonnet on the Nile, 72
Shelley, Mrs., 12, 366
Shipton, Mother, 232
_Sibylline Leaves_, 18, 40
Sidney, Algernon, 174, 175
Sidney, Sir Philip, 10
Silenus, 223
Simon Pure, 248, 249
Simple (in _Merry Wives_), 95 note
Sister or sister-in-law (in K.'s American letters). _See_ Wylie,
Georgiana
Skinner, 245
Slang of the Rice set, 50
Sleep, sonnet on, 259
Slips of the pen, not preserved in this edition, xiv.
Smith, Horace, 33, 47, 72, 75
Smith, Sidney, 309
Smith, William, Southey's letter to, 10 note
Smithfield, the burnings at, 108
Smollett compared to Scott, 51, 52
Snook, 26, 195 and note, 219, 317, 371 note;
visited by K., 217
Socrates, 255;
and Jesus, 236
Solitude, K.'s pleasure in, 181
Solomon, 100
"Solomon," by Haydon, 214
Songs, many written by K., 72
Sonnet to Keats, a, 199
Sonnets by K., 2, 8, 59, 66, 81, 117, 139, 158, 238, 246, 258, 259;
a new form, 261;
many written, 72;
one on the Nile, 72 and note
Sophocles, 142
"Souls of Poets dead and gone," etc., 70
Southampton, road to, described, 4 _seq._
Southcote, Joanna, 220
Southey, 232, 244, 361;
Hazlitt on, 10 and note, 16
_Spectator_, The, 293
Speed's edition of K., xiii. and note
Spelling tricks, K.'s, not followed in this edition, xiv.
Spenser, 9;
his _Cave of Despair_ subject of a picture by Severn, 334 note, 335
Staffa described, 150
Stark (the artist), 76
"Star of high promise!--not to this dark age," etc. (sonnet to K.), 199
Stephens, 49
Stevenson (Rice's nickname for Thornton), 345
Susan Gale, 249
Swift, 76, 344
T., Mr., 18. _See_ Taylor
Tam o' Shanter, 130, 133
Tarpeian Rock, 38
Tasso, 95 note
Taste, Hazlitt's depth of, 53, 54
*Taylor, xi., 18, 44, 53, 56, 76, 97, 111, 135, 168, 177, 199, 221, 236,
238, 248, 250, 292, 324, 340;
he helps K., 290;
he is pleased with _Endymion_, 57;
and suggests changes, 77
Taylor, Jeremy, 225
Taylor, Miss (author of _Essays in Rhyme_ and _Original Poems_), 23
Taylors, the (as Fleet Street), 54
Teignmouth visited, 78-109
_Tempest_ quoted, 5 note, 7 note, 9, 245
Tertullian, 10
Text of this edition, xiv.
Theatricals, private, described, 59
Theocritus, 180
"There is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain," etc., 146
"There was a naughty Boy," etc., 121
"The sun from meridian height," etc., 25
"The Town, the churchyard, and the setting sun," etc., 117
Thomson, 72, 234
Thornton, 163, 345
Thought, the centre of the intellectual world, 82
Tighe, Mrs., 201
Timotheus, 25
_Tintern Abbey_, by Wordsworth, 108
"'Tis the witching time of night," etc., 175
Tom. _See_ Keats, Tom
_Tom Cribb's Memorial to Congress_, by Moore, 228, 344
Tootts, 373
Tournament, suggested by mountains, 116
Towers, Mr., 218
Tragedy. _See_ _Otho the Great_
Trimmer, Mr., 192
Troilus, 180
Trojan horse, 96
Turton, Dr., 101
_Twelfth Night_, quoted 11
Twisse, Horace, 198
"Two or three Posies," etc., 269
Unreserve of K.'s letters, xiv.
"Upon a Sabbath-day it fell," etc., 303
"Upon my Life Sir Nevis I am pique'd," 156
Urganda, 18
"Uriel," by Alston, 76
Vandyck, 361
Vathek, Caliph, 134
Velocipede, 233
Venery, the philosophy of, 106
_Venus and Adonis_, quoted, 45
Verse and other quotations in letters given in full in this edition,
xiii.
_Virgil_, 18
Voltaire, 76, 231, 254, 362
Waldegrave, Miss, 170, 191, 219, 248, 292, 315
Wallace, 329
Walpole's Letters, 208
Walton, 290
Warder, 181
Warner Street, 3
Washington, 175
Way, 221
Webb, Cornelius, 39
Webb, Mrs., 218
Wellington, Duke of, 17, 345
Well Walk (where the brothers K. lodged), 152, 183
Wells, Charles, 47 and note, 48 note, 49, 50, 52, 55, 58, 59;
his treatment of George K., 239, 245
Wells, Mrs., 52
Wentworth Place (occupied by Dilke and Brown), 142, 163, (K. moves to),
187
Wentworthians, the, 223
"Were they unhappy then?--It cannot be," etc., 102
West, 87;
his "Death on the Pale Horse," 47
"When I have fears that I may cease to be," etc., 66
"When they were come into the Faery's Court," etc., 241
"Where be ye going, you Devon Maid?" etc., 66
"Wherein lies Happiness! In that which becks," etc., 64
Whitehead, 63, 82
"Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell," etc., 238
Wight, Isle of, "the Primrose Island," 7;
visited, 6-9, 275-279, 370
Wilkie, 76, 111
Wilkinson, 6
William of Wickham, 284
Williams, Dominie, 218
Williams, Mrs., 34
Winchester described, 283 _seq._, 302, 320;
visited, 280-328
Winkine (author of treatise on garden-rollers), 20
Winter, Miss, 231
Women, the influence of, 143;
classed with "roses and sweetmeats," 370;
why should they suffer? 61
Wood, 10
*Woodhouse, Richard, 100, 114, 168, 218, 248, 250, 282, 287 note, 289
note, 320 note, 322, 324;
copied letters, xi.;
a letter from him introducing Miss Porter, 192, 193
Wooler, 47
Wordsworth, 2 and note, 17, 28, 33, 39, 50, 54, 55, 58, 79, 81, 95,
114, 232, 236, 249, 361 (as the Northern Poet, 28);
his character, 76;
his genius, 105-108;
his _Gipsy_, 37;
his house, 116;
damned the Lakes, 87;
his _Peter Bell_, 240;
his philosophy illustrated by his _Matthew_, 67, 68;
his portrait in Haydon's "Christ," 16 and note;
he is read by K., 28;
his _Tintern Abbey_, 108;
the "Wordsworthian or egotistical Sublime style of poetry," 184
Wordsworth, Mrs. and Miss (as W. W.'s wife and sister), 87
Wylie, Charles, 165, 170, 178, 189, 292, 307, 339, 341, 342, 344
(sometimes as Charles)
*Wylie, Georgiana, 75 and note, 117, 119, 192, 200, 201, 305, 306, 372
(sometimes as sister, sister-in-law, G. minor, or little George);
an acrostic on her name, 300;
admired by K., 113, 169, 173;
married to George K., xix.
Wylie, Henry, 170, 176, 178, 197, 219, 231, 257, 292, 341, 346, 358
(sometimes as Henry);
"a greater blade than ever," 307;
his bride cake, 339
*Wylie, Mrs., 117, 158, 168, 169, 178, 189, 191, 197, 217, 222, 223,
231, 239, 248, 257, 263, 270, 284, 292, 307, 314, 337, 338, 341,
349 (sometimes as mother)
Wylie, Mrs. Henry, 339, 346
Wylies, the two, _i.e._ Charles and Henry, 239, 248, 266, 348, 364
(sometimes as brothers)
Wylies, the (as Henrietta Street), 189
_Wyoming, Gertrude of_, 342
_Yellow Dwarf_, the, 67 note, 72
Young (the actor), 285
Zoroastrians, 257
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FOOTNOTES:
[A] A complete friend. This line sounded very oddly to me at first.
[B] Especially as I have a black eye.
[1] Macmillan's Magazine, August 1888.
[2] For the letters already printed by Lord Houghton, Mr. Forman as a rule
simply copied the text of that editor. The letters to Fanny Brawne and
Fanny Keats, on the other hand, he printed with great accuracy from the
autographs, and had autographs also before him in revising those to Dilke,
Haydon, and several besides. The correspondence with Fanny Keats he kindly
gave me leave to use for the present volume, receiving from me in return
the right to use my MS. materials for a revised issue of his own work. In
that issue, which appeared at the end of 1889, the new matter is, however,
printed separately, in the form of scraps and addenda detached from their
context; and the present edition (the appearance of which has been delayed
for two years by accidental circumstances) is the only one in which the
true text of the American and miscellaneous letters is given consecutively
and in proper order.
[3] The letters in which I have relied wholly or in part on Mr. Speed's
text are Nos. xxv. lxxx. (only for a few passages missing in the
autograph) cxvi. and cxxxi.
[4] Where the dates in my text are printed without brackets, they are
those given by Keats himself; the dates within brackets have been supplied
either from the postmarks (as was done by Woodhouse in all his
transcripts) or by inference from the text.
[5] The autographs of these letters, all except three, are now in the
British Museum.
[6] The early letters of Keats are full of these Shakspearean tags and
allusions: some of the less familiar I have thought it worth while to mark
in the footnotes.
[7] The references are of course to Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, and Haydon. In
the sonnet as printed in the _Poems_ of 1817, and all later editions, the
last line but one breaks off at "workings," the words "in the human mart"
having been omitted by Haydon's advice.
[8] Presumably as shown in some drawing or miniature.
[9] Not the long poem published under that title in 1818, but the earlier
attempt beginning, "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill," which was printed
as a fragment in the _Poems_ of 1817.
[10] This letter, which is marked by Woodhouse in his copy "no date, sent
by hand," I take to be an answer to the commendatory sonnet addressed by
Reynolds to Keats on February 27, 1817: see _Keats_ (Men of Letters
Series), Appendix, p. 223.
[11] For Stephano's "Here's my comfort," twice in _Tempest_, II. ii.
[12]
"I'll not show him
Where the quick freshes are."
Caliban in _Tempest_, III. ii.
[13] This sonnet was first published in the _Champion_ (edited by John
Scott) for August 17, 1817.
[14] Charles Cowden Clarke.
[15] For Sunday, May 4, 1817.
[16] The first part, published in the same number of the _Examiner_, of a
ferocious review by Hazlitt of Southey's _Letter to William Smith, Esq.,
M.P._
[17] The poem so entitled on which Hunt was now at work, and which was
published in the volume called _Foliage_ (1818).
[18] Alluding to the well-known story of Shelley dismaying an old lady in
a stage-coach by suddenly, _a propos_ of nothing, crying out to Leigh Hunt
in the words of Richard II., "For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,"
etc.