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

CHAPTER XVII

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EPILOGUE 513

APPENDIX 551

INDEX 559

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE PAGE

I. HEAD OF KEATS _Frontispiece_

From a posthumous oil painting by Joseph Severn in the possession of the Marquis of Crewe, K.G.

II. PORTRAIT OF JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT 46

From an engraving by Mayer after a drawing by J. Hayter.

III. PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON 62

From an engraving by Thomson after Haydon.

IV. LIFE-MASK OF KEATS 144

From an electrotype in the National Portrait Gallery.

V. 'ONWARD THE TIGER AND THE LEOPARD PANTS, WITH ASIAN ELEPHANTS' 230

From an engraving after a sarcophagus relief at Woburn Abbey.

VI. A SACRIFICE TO APOLLO 264

From an engraving by Vivares and Woollett after Claude.

VII. THE ENCHANTED CASTLE 266

From an engraving by Vivares and Woollett after Claude.

VIII. 'AND THERE I'D SIT AND READ ALL DAY LIKE A PICTURE OF SOMEBODY READING' 338

From an oil painting by Joseph Severn in the National Portrait Gallery

IX. 'FIGURES ON A GREEK VASE--A MAN AND TWO WOMEN' 342

From an etching in Piranesi's _Vasi e Candelabri_.

X. PAGE FROM _ISABELLA; OR, THE POT OF BASIL_ 394

From an autograph by Keats in the British Museum.

XI. THE SOSIBIOS VASE: PROFILE AND FRIEZE 416

From an engraving in the _Musee Napoleon_.

XII. 'WHAT PIPES AND TIMBRELS? WHAT WILD ECSTASY?' 418

Bacchanalian friezes, (A) from the Townley Vase in the British Museum, (B) from the Borghese Vase in the Louvre.

XIII. PAGE FROM A LETTER OF HAYDON TO ELIZABETH BARRETT, 1834 532