LIFE

OF

JOHN KEATS.

BY

WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI.

LONDON

WALTER SCOTT

24 WARWICK LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW

1887

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Dec. 6,1921 HARVARD UNIVERSITY CHILD MEMORIAL LIBRARY

1760.81.2-8

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

JAN 9 1956

CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I.

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

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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 Hamp-
stead, 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