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for Italy; his love-letters to Miss Brawne--extracts;
Haydon's last sight of him; he sails for Italy with Joseph
Severn; letter to Brown; Naples and Rome; extracts from
Severn's letters; Keats dies in Rome, February 23, 1821. 40

CHAPTER IV.

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," 1817; Hunt's first sight of his poems
in MS.; "Sleep and Poetry," extract regarding poetry
of the Pope school, &c.; the publishers, Messrs. Ollier,
give up the volume as a failure. 64

CHAPTER V.

"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; the critique in _The Quarterly Review_; attack
in _Blackwood's Magazine_; question whether Keats broke
down under hostile criticism; evidence on this subject in
his own letters, and by Shelley, Lord Houghton, Haydon,
Byron, Hunt, George Keats, Cowden Clarke, Severn;
conclusion. 73

CHAPTER VI.

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 the Great," "La Belle Dame
sans Merci," "The Cap and Bells," final sonnet, &c.;
prose writings. 107

CHAPTER VII.

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 Keats; other friends--Bailey, Haydon, Shelley. 118

CHAPTER VIII.

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;
moral tone; question as to his strength of character--Haydon's
opinion; demeanour among friends; studious
resolves; suspicious tendency; his feeling toward women--poem
quoted; love of flowers and music; politics;
irritation against Leigh Hunt; his letters; antagonism
to science; remarks on contemporary writers; axioms on
poetry; self-analysis as to his perceptions as a