Life of John Keats

remains, and we close the poem with a conviction that Keats, if he had succeeded in writing "a _fragment_ as sublime as Æschylus," was both prudent and fortunate in leaving it a...

To "Endymion" we now have to turn. The early verses of Keats (as well as the later ones) contain numerous allusions to Grecian mythology--Muses, Apollo, Pan, Narcissus, Endymion...

As I have already said, Keats was a very small man, barely more than five feet in height. He was called "Little Keats" by his surgical fellow-students. Archdeacon Bailey has lef...

We have seen what John Keats did in the shifting scene of the world, and in the high arena of poesy; we have seen what were the qualities of character and of mind which enabled...

From this point forwards nothing but misery remains to be recorded of John Keats. The narrative becomes depressing to write and depressing to read. The sensation is like that of...

We have now reached the year 1817 and the month of May, when Keats was in the twenty-second year of his age. He then wrote that he had "forgotten all surgery," and was beginning...

"There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel; who unpen Their baaing vanities to browse away The comfortable green and juicy hay From human pastures;...

A truism must do duty as my first sentence. There are long lives, and there are eventful lives: there are also short lives, and uneventful ones. Keats's life was both short and...

The first important poem to which Keats sets his hand after finishing "Endymion" was "Isabella, or The Pot of Basil." This was completed by April 27, 1818, the same month in whi...

We have now reached the close of a melancholy history--that of the extinction, in a space of less than twenty-six years, of a bright life foredoomed by inherited disease. We tur...

Having now gone through the narrative of Keats's life and death, and also the narrative of his literary work, we have before us the more delicate and exacting task of forming so...

Influence of Spenser discussed; flimsiness of Keats's first volume; early sonnets; "Endymion"; Shelley's criticisms of this poem; detailed argument of the poem; estimate of "End...

Keats's appearance; portraits; difficulties in estimating his character; his poetic ambition, and feeling on subjects of historical or public interest; his intensity of thought;...

Keats begins "Endymion," May 1817; his health suffers in Oxford; finishes "Endymion" in November; his friend, Charles Armitage Brown; his brother George marries and emigrates to...

Keats's consumptive illness begins, February 1820; he rallies, but has a relapse in June; he stays with Leigh Hunt, and leaves him suddenly; publication of his last volume, "Lam...

Keats's grandfather Jennings; his father and mother; Keats born in London, October 31, 1795; his brothers and sister; goes to the school of John Clarke at Enfield, and is tutore...

"Endymion"; Keats's classical predilections; extract (from "I stood tiptoe" &c.) about Diana and Endymion; details as to the composition of "Endymion," 1817; preface to the poem...

Keats rhymes in infancy; his first writings, the "Imitation of Spenser," and some sonnets; not precocious as a poet; his sonnet on Chapman's Homer; contents of his first volume,...

Poems included in the "Lamia" volume, 1820; "Isabella"; "The Eve of St. Agnes"; "Hyperion"; "Lamia"; five odes; other poems--sonnet on "The Nile"; "The Eve of St. Mark," "Otho t...

Keats's grave in Rome; projects of Brown and others for writing his Life; his brother George, and his sister, Mrs. Llanos; Miss Brawne; discussion as to Hunt's friendship to Kea...