Life of John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics and After-Fame

Hopes and fears at home--Fanny Brawne: Leigh Hunt--Supposed effect of reviews--Shelley misled and inspired--_Adonais_--A _Blackwood_ Parody--False impressions confirmed--Death o...

Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pai...

Characters in, 166, 177 _et alibi_ Contemporary influences seen in, 233 _et sqq._ Date of publication, 163 Deeper speculative and symbolic meanings of, and of Keats's other poem...

Removal to Wentworth Place--Work on _Hyperion_--The insatiable Haydon--The Misses Porter--A mingled yarn--Charles Lamb and punning--Hunt and his satellites--Fanny Brawne--A sudd...

Minor achievements--_Bards of Passion and of Mirth_--_Fancy_--The tales--_Isabella_--Story and metre--Influence of Chaucer--Apostrophes and invocations--Horror turned to beauty-...

'Poems' fall flat--Reviews by Hunt and others--Change of publishers--New friends: Bailey and Woodhouse--Begins _Endymion_ at Carisbrooke--Moves to Margate--Hazlitt and Southey--...

Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults...

Letters from the sick-bed--To Fanny Brawne--To James Rice--Barry Cornwall--Hopes of returning health--Haydon's private view--Improvement not maintained--Summer at Kentish Town--...

Hospital days: summary--Aptitudes and ambitions--Teachers--Testimony of Henry Stephens--Pride and other characteristics--Evidences of a wandering mind--Services of Cowden Clarke...

Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evenin...

Resolve to winter in Italy--Severn as companion--The 'Maria Crowther'--Fellow passengers--Storm in the Channel--Held up in the Solent--Landing near Lulworth--The 'Bright Star' s...

Work on _Otho_ and _Lamia_--Letters to Fanny Brawne--Keats as lover--An imagined future--Change to Winchester--Work and fine weather--Ill news from George--A run to town--A talk...

Snatches expressive of moods--_Ode to Maia_--_Hyperion_: its scheme and scale--Sources: Homer and Hesiod--Pierre Ronsard--Miltonisms--Voices of the Titans--A match and no match...

Obscure family history--The Finsbury livery stable--The surname Keats--Origin probably Cornish--Character of parents--Traits of childhood--The Enfield School--The Edmonton home-...

First sight of Windermere--Ambleside, Rydal, Keswick--Attitude towards scenery--Ascent of Skiddaw--A country dancing-school--Dumfries--The Galloway coast--Meg Merrilies--Flying...

Haydon and the Elgin marbles--Haydon as painter and writer--Vanity, pugnacity, and piety--Haydon on Leigh Hunt--Keats and Haydon meet--An enthusiastic friendship--Keats and the...

_Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine_--Partisan excesses--Wild inconsistency--Virulences of first number--The 'Z' papers and Leigh Hunt--Blackwood and Walter Scott--_The Chaldee Manu...

learn that all transient and secondary loves, which may seem to come between him and his great ideal pursuit and lure him away from it, are really, when the truth is known, but...

Invention and imagination--What the moon meant to Keats--Elizabethan Precedents--Fletcher and Drayton--Drayton's two versions--Debt of Keats to Drayton--Strain of allegory--The...

conquerors, and worldly 'regalities' in general, amplifying in his least fortunate style the ideas contained in the sonnet 'On receiving a laurel crown from Leigh Hunt' written...

than the exposition by the hero of the trouble in which he finds himself. For its exordium Keats uses a line, and probably a whole passage, which he had written many months befo...

love, and the relative unimportance of the wars and catastrophes of history. Juliet leaning from her balcony, the swoon of Imogen, Hero wrongfully accused by Claudio, Spenser's...