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Title: Life of John Keats

Author: William Michael Rossetti

Release Date: March 18, 2010 [EBook #31682]

Language: English

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LIFE OF JOHN KEATS.

BY

WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI.

LONDON
WALTER SCOTT
24 WARWICK LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW

1887

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE

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 tutored
by Charles Cowden Clarke; death of his parents; is
apprenticed to a surgeon, Hammond; leaves Hammond,
and studies surgery; reads Spenser, and takes to poetry;
his literary acquaintances--Leigh Hunt, Haydon, J.
Hamilton Reynolds, Dilke, &c.; Keats's first volume,
"Poems," 1817 11

CHAPTER II.

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 America; Keats and Brown make a
walking tour in Scotland and Ireland; returns to Hampstead,
owing to a sore throat; death of his brother Tom;
his description of Miss Cox ("Charmian"), and of Miss
Brawne, with whom he falls in love; a difference with
Haydon; visits Winchester; George Keats returns for
a short while from America, but goes away again without
doing anything to relieve John Keats from straits in
money matters. 23

CHAPTER III.

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,
"Lamia" &c.; returns to Hampstead before startin