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tea dealer/broker and holder of some public offices; trustee of the Keats family legacy
after
the deaths of Keats’s mother and maternal grandparents (Abbey is appointed by Keats’s
grandmother, Alice Jennings, in 1810; the other appointee, John Nowland Sandell, a
well-to-do
businessman, dies in 1816); Abbey is mistrusted by Keats and his sister, Fanny, who
lives with
the Abbey family for a spell; he strongly disapproves of Keats’s poetic aspirations
(and
politics); significantly, Keats is never fully aware of his finances in the form of
inherited
family money; brothers Tom and George at times work for Abbey.
- and a legal claim for the family estate
- attempts to keep Fanny Keats and Keats apart
- does not think it a good idea to sell stock to realize some money for George or Keats
- George and Keats having a different view of in early 1820
- George happy with upon receiving money from
- guardian and trustee executor of the Keats family estate
- Keats gets some money from
- Keats goes to London to see about a suit against the family estate
- Keats goes to London to see about helping George
- Keats has to deal with regarding George’s finances
- Keats is refused a loan from
- Keats meets with and a possible suit against the family money
- Keats sees about possible legal suit over the family estate
- Keats sees his sister via
- oversees family inheritance
- prevents Keats from allowing Fanny Keats to see
- removes Keats from school for place in medical profession
- reports that the Keats estate is under dispute
- reticent trustee of the family estate
- tightfistedly and opaquely manages the Keats estate
- tries to block Keats from seeing his sister
- unhelpful manager of Keats’s family estate
- unhelpful manager of Keats’s family estate
- 9 October 1794: Marriage of Keats’s Parents
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- 31 October 1795: Keats is Born into a Growing, Successful Family
- Keats’s Family Home,
1797
- December 1802: Solidly Middle Class & Dispelling the Myth of Keats
- 27 June 1804: Keats’s Mother Hastily Remarries; Consumption: the Family Complaint
- 8 March 1805: Death of Keats’s Grandfather; the Family Estate; to Edmonton with
Grandmother
- 20 March 1810: His Mother Dies, & What Death Means for Young Keats
- 1810 & Later: Richard Abbey, Keats’s Guardian & Trustee
- 19 December 1814: Keats’s Grandmother Buried; All Family Elders Gone; Money Troubles
Coming
- 15 October 1815: Keats’s Continues Medical Training; But a Poet He Will Be—he hopes
- 25 July 1816: Keats Passes Medical Exams
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- 16 May 1817: Canterbury, Daily Work on Endymion,
Ultimate
Progression,
& Hunt’s Damning Influence
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- 7 December 1818: Tom’s Burial, The Vice of Lending, & the Imperative to Work, Read,
Write
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 18 January 1819: Chichester, Bedhampton, Haydon as Martyr, & The
Eve of St. Agnes
- 25 January 1819: A Gothic Church & Achievement in Waiting
- 24 February 1819: Indolence, Family Money, & Hopes for a Rousing Spring
- 14 March 1819: A Medical Future or Great Poetry? A Pivotal Keatsian Moment
- 25 March 1819: Straining at Particles: A Temperament of Disinterestedness
- 11 April 1819: Two Miles &
a Thousand Things
: A Walking Talk by Coleridge
- 31 May 1819: Controlled Intensity & Timeless Drama: Ode on a
Grecian Urn
- 9 June 1819: Abatement of Fame; or, Beg What You Can for Me; & No More Pet-Lambing
Verse
- 25 July 1819: Shanklin, Fanny Brawne, & A Brighter Word than Bright
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 11 October 1819: Otho, Fanny Brawne, & Bright Star
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- January 1820: George Comes, George Goes; Hope despite
T Wang-Dillo-Dee
; Urn
Published
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 16 August 1820: Sinking with Shelley
- 13-16 September 1820: To Italy: Beyond Every Thing Horrible & a Sense of Darkness
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
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(1791–1853): scholar with philosophical and
literary interests, ordained church clergyman (curacy); meets Keats in spring 1817;
shares
interests in Wordsworth, Milton, Plato, Dante, and Hazlitt with Keats; Keats writes
a few very
important and theoretically explorative letters to Bailey, and Keats found him of
noble
disposition (he publicly defends Keats); Keats stays with Bailey at Oxford University
(Magdalen Hall) in September 1818 into early October; visits Stratford with Keats;
later in
life, Bailey wrote minor poetry and sermons; eventually becomes an archdeacon.
- as someone Keats’s sees as intellectually engaged
- influence on Keats’s ideas
- Keats meets via Reynolds
- Keats stays with at Oxford
- Keats visits Oxford with and Bailey’s friendship
- Keats writes an important letter to about the imagination
- Keats writes to about his anxieties
- pushes Keats to read Dante
- pushes Keats to read Dante
- to whom Keats an important letter about the imagination
- writes to Taylor about Keats
- 15 October 1815: Keats’s Continues Medical Training; But a Poet He Will Be—he hopes
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- 24 April 1817: Toward Endymion, the Temple of Fame, & Why I
Should be a Poet
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- Early October 1817: Haydon’s Influence & the Problem of Literary Men
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 25 October 1817: Visit to James Rice & Some Key Questions
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- 3 January 1818: Keats Calls on Wordsworth
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- 6 March 1818: Endymion: A Trial of Perseverance; or, Mistakes
are Opportunities for Learning; To Teignmouth; the Keats/Hunt Relationship
- May 1818: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Leigh Hunt Damned
& Keats as Infatuated Bardling: Z
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 26 June 1818:
Sad—sad—sad
: Lord Wordsworth’s Politics & Forms of Permanence
- 18 July 1818-August 1818:
Tramping in the Highlands
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 16 August 1820: Sinking with Shelley
- 25 January 1821:
This Dreary Point
; A Man Governed by Imagination &
Feeling
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
- Pictures/Picturing, Images/Imagining: Representing & Reproducing Junkets
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(1584–1616): Jacobean dramatist, poet; most famous
as a collaborator with John Fletcher; Keats owned a copy of 4-volume 1811 edition
of The Dramatic Works of Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher; Keats
writes a poem about an evening spent at the Mermaid Inn in Cheapside, in which he
imagines
Jonson, Fletcher, Beaumont, and Shakespeare gathering:
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern,
written January 1818.
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(1747-1832): Utilitarian philosopher, driven by
pragmatic thinking and moral approach to understanding and describing human nature
and human
rights; interested in topics like penal reform, education, and hospitals.
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friend, the historical painter Benjamin Robert Haydon; Bewick socializes with Keats
via Haydon
and others in Keats’s circle: in a letter of 11 February 1818, Bewick calls them very
intellectual dinners,
and he mentions the presence of Keats the poet, Hazlitt the
critic, Haydon, Hunt the publisher, &c., &
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exhibitions; Bewick goes on to become a portrait and historical painter of average
though
professional qualities.
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- 30 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Early Poetic Strivings
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- Early October 1817: Haydon’s Influence & the Problem of Literary Men
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 21 December 1817: Keats as Kean, Kean as Keats, Endymion as
Filler
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- May 1818: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Leigh Hunt Damned
& Keats as Infatuated Bardling: Z
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- Hazlitt sues and Keats is reviewed by
- its first attack on the
Cockney School
- its first attack on the
Cockney School
- Keats’s association with the
Cockney School of Poetry
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- Keats’s Endymion reviewed in
- Keats’s fears about come true
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(1313–1375): Italian Renaissance humanist, writer,
scholar, poet; most famous for his innovatively realistic poem, Decameron; Keats’s
and his friend John Hamilton Reynolds entertain assembling a volume of poems based
on
Boccaccio’s Decameron; Keats’s somewhat interesting though
indifferent poem
Isabella
(written 1818, published in the 1820 collection) is inspired by Boccaccio.
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Keats autumn 1818 via the Dilkes (she’s eighteen); with widowed, kindly mother and
siblings,
lives next door to Keats at Wentworth Place, spring 1819 (they take care of Keats,
Aug. 1820);
lively, social, smart (proficient in German and French), musical, keen perceptions,
strong
opinions, fashionable, middle-class, but disliked by some of Keats’s friends, who
see her as
flirtatious and vain (early Keats biographers tend to view her as unfit for Keats);
perhaps
unofficially betrothed to Keats in late 1818, but more likely a mutual declaration
of love;
Keats writes striking love letters to her, but when Keats becomes ill they devolve
into overly
longing and jealous rants as Keats becomes increasing ill and distraught that he might
never
again be with her (publication of Keats’s love letters in 1878 causes some literary
commotion); she remarries in 1833 and has a daughter and two sons; dies in London;
Fanny’s
widowed mother, Frances, is very kind toward Keats.
- a letter from unintentionally opened
- her background and character
- her background and character
- her character and history with Keats
- her physical presence in poetry about her
- increasingly possessive about
- Keats avoids seeing because of complexities and anxieties
- Keats begins a serious of passionate letters to
- Keats confounded by
- Keats engaged to
- Keats exchanges gifts with on departing to Italy
- Keats has an intense period of time closes to
- Keats is manipulative and controlling of her feelings
- Keats meets and characteristics of
- Keats perhaps writes Bright Star sonnet to
- Keats spends some time with her family
- Keats writes poetry about
- Keats writes to about his illness
- Keats writes to
- Keats’s attraction to
- Keats’s complex regard for
- Keats’s complicated thoughts about and feelings for
- Keats’s deeply conflicted feelings for
- Keats’s desperate feelings about while in Rome
- Keats’s desperate thoughts about
- Keats’s engagement with
- Keats’s fear that he will never see her again
- Keats’s friends not totally approving of
- Keats’s love for
- Keats’s love of and passion for
- Keats’s regard for
- Keats’s uneven relationship in mid-1820 with
- love letters to
- mocked by friends, defended and loved by Keats
- uses Shakespeare to describe his situation with
- we first hear of
- writes out a letter for Keats to Fanny Keats
- April 1817: Keats & Sovereign Shakespeare
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- 25 December 1818: Fanny Brawne’s Ways, the Hyperion Project, & Greatness in a Shade
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 3 April 1819: Fanny Brawne, Complex Associations, & Poetry without Progress
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 3 May 1819: The Odes: Mastery & Maturation via Controlled Intensity & Capable
Form
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 25 July 1819: Shanklin, Fanny Brawne, & A Brighter Word than Bright
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 11 October 1819: Otho, Fanny Brawne, & Bright Star
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 3 February 1820: Consumption:
That Drop of Blood
; I Wish I had a little
Hope
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 16 August 1820: Sinking with Shelley
- 13-16 September 1820: To Italy: Beyond Every Thing Horrible & a Sense of Darkness
- 21 October 1820:
This Kind of Suffering
; Arrival in Naples, Not in the World, &
An Intellect in Splints
- 15 November 1820: Rome:
Oh, God! God! God!
—An Awkward Bow to Life Having Past
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
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Edinburgh Review; member of Parliament on the Whig side, a
leader in the House of Commons, known for liberal reforms (on abolition, education,
criminal
issues, voting reform), famous for his causes and speeches; later Lord Chancellor
of Great
Britain; as a politician, Brougham contests Westmorland, while Keats is very disappointed
that
William Wordsworth is a supporter of Lord Lowther, who controls the Tory side for
Westmorland:
sad—sad—sad—
writes Keats 26 June 1818.
(1787–1842): businessman, fur merchant,
decent amateur artist, writer of a comic opera and some translations as well as a
study of
Shakespeare’s poems; some literary lectures; lived independently on inheritance money;
one of
Keats’s very closest friends (Keats is twenty-one when they meet), and knew Keats
as well as
anyone; extraordinarily supportive of and generous with Keats; lives with Keats on
a few
occasions; also travels with Keats, most famously on their long walking tour in the
summer of
1818; kept a considerable collection of transcripts of Keats’s work; co-author with
Keats of a
somewhat indifferent play (never produced), Otho the Great; co-owner of Wentworth
Place (two semi-detached houses), now Keats House; attempted a memoir of Keats.
- about his desire to be remembered Keats’s writes to
- advises Keats not to apply for medical jobs and to try writing once more
- co-owner of Wentworth Place and generous friend
- encourages Keats to write a play with him, Otho the Great
- financial support of Keats
- has to rent out Keats’s space in Wentworth Place
- invites Keats to live in on half of Wentworth Place
- Keats at Wentworth Place with, and co-writing Otho the Great with
- Keats back at Wentworth Place with
- Keats begins his northern tour with
- Keats begins trip north with
- Keats completing Otho the Great with
- Keats goes to Covent Garden with
- Keats living with at Wentworth Place
- Keats living with at Wentworth Place
- Keats on northern trip with, in Scotland
- Keats on northern trip with, in Scotland
- Keats on northern trip with, in Scotland
- Keats on northern trip with, in Scotland
- Keats on northern trip with, in Scotland
- Keats on northern trip with, in Scotland
- Keats on northern trip with, in Scotland
- Keats plans to write a revenue-generating play with
- Keats sees pantomime with
- Keats spends Christmas with
- Keats takes a short trip with to Bedhampton and Chichester
- Keats writes to about his desperate feelings about Fanny Brawne
- Keats writes to about his medical career
- Keats’s good friend and co-owner of Wentworth Place
- Ode to a Nightingale, Keats writes, according to
- on the first leg of the northern trip with
- Otho the Great written with, soon to be accepted for production
- recipient of Keats’s last known letter
- records Keats hemorrhage in February 1820
- records Keats’s hemorrhage in February 1820
- Severn writes to about Keats’s dire state
- the initial choice of travelling companion to Italy
- to the Isle of Wight to write a play with
Walks in the North,
based on his trip with Keats- 18 December 1795: Keats is Baptized; Keats and his Religion
- 1811-1815: Medical Apprenticeship & Charles Cowden Clarke
- 15 October 1815: Keats’s Continues Medical Training; But a Poet He Will Be—he hopes
- October 1815: Keats’s Lodging as a Medical Student; Keats’s Interests in being a Poet
- 25 July 1816: Keats Passes Medical Exams
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 26 December 1817: Harlequin’s Vision & Philosophical Directions: Kean,
Shakespeare, & Wordsworth
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 23 June 1818: Good-bye to George & Looking North
- 26 June 1818:
Sad—sad—sad
: Lord Wordsworth’s Politics & Forms of Permanence
- 1 July 1818: Robert Burns, Dirty Bacon, & the Irish Duchess of Dunghill
- 11 July 1818: Burns’s Cottage & Heading North
- 18 July 1818-August 1818:
Tramping in the Highlands
- 2 August 1818: Mistiness: Ben Nevis & the Hope for Loud Muses
- 7-8 August 1818: What Keats takes from the Northern Tour
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- 7 December 1818: Tom’s Burial, The Vice of Lending, & the Imperative to Work, Read,
Write
- 25 December 1818: Fanny Brawne’s Ways, the Hyperion Project, & Greatness in a Shade
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 18 January 1819: Chichester, Bedhampton, Haydon as Martyr, & The
Eve of St. Agnes
- 25 January 1819: A Gothic Church & Achievement in Waiting
- 2 February 1819: “The Eve of St. Agnes”: Evocative without Affectation
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 3 April 1819: Fanny Brawne, Complex Associations, & Poetry without Progress
- 12 May 1819: Viewless Wings & the Complex Play of Consciousness & Imagination: Ode to a Nightingale
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 9 June 1819: Abatement of Fame; or, Beg What You Can for Me; & No More Pet-Lambing
Verse
- 14 June 1819: Strapped for Cash, Averse to Writing, Ability Summoned, & No Longer
a
Versifying Pet-Lamb
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 25 July 1819: Shanklin, Fanny Brawne, & A Brighter Word than Bright
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 11 October 1819: Otho, Fanny Brawne, & Bright Star
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- 20 December 1819: Without the Poetry of 1819 . . .
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- January 1820: George Comes, George Goes; Hope despite
T Wang-Dillo-Dee
; Urn
Published
- 3 February 1820: Consumption:
That Drop of Blood
; I Wish I had a little
Hope
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 16 August 1820: Sinking with Shelley
- 13-16 September 1820: To Italy: Beyond Every Thing Horrible & a Sense of Darkness
- 21 October 1820:
This Kind of Suffering
; Arrival in Naples, Not in the World, &
An Intellect in Splints
- 15 November 1820: Rome:
Oh, God! God! God!
—An Awkward Bow to Life Having Past
- 9 December 1820:
Too Noble an Animal,
Despair in Every Shape,
& Thanks
Joe
: Dead Poet Talking
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- 23 February 1821: The Death of a Poet:
Youth Grows Pale, and Spectre-thin, and Dies
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
- Pictures/Picturing, Images/Imagining: Representing & Reproducing Junkets
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for his use of Scots vernacular; exciseman in later life; ambitious, freethinking;
likely dies
of bacterial endocarditis, perhaps compromised by alcohol; a legend by Keats’s time,
venerated
by the Romantics; Keats’s northern walking tour with Charles Brown in the summer of
1818 has
for one of its goals to gather some sense of Burns’ world; Keats remains confused
about Burns,
in particular his life and poetic subjects; though Keats has sympathies with Burns
as a
self-reliant outsider, he also importantly views Burns as a cautionary figure; Keats’s
poem,
On Visiting the Tomb of
Burns, which, though weak, pairs Keats’s conjoined topics of beauty and
suffering; Keats also writes
This mortal body of a thousand
days
while in the cottage of Burn’s birth—Keats calls his lines bad.
(1778–1834): one of the most successful
and controversial poets of the era; a handsome, flamboyant celebrity who came to represent
liberty, individuality, and vitality; extraordinarily famous during his life as a
published
poet (and conflated with the heroes he creates), but, on a pan-European scale, legendary
after
his death; Keats unimpressed by Bryon’s style of poetry, perhaps tainted by some jealousy
of
Byron’s success; Byron initially finds Keats’s poetry juvenile and imaginatively indulgent,
though based on an impression of his early work.
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- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 1 or 2 March 1817: Keats’s On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- 1 or 2 March 1817: Keats’s On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- 17 August 1817: Keats’s
On the Sea
is Published; The
Champion
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 15 December 1817: Kean’s Remarkable Richard III: the
Development of a Crucial Idea
- 21 December 1817: Keats as Kean, Kean as Keats, Endymion as
Filler
- 26 December 1817: Harlequin’s Vision & Philosophical Directions: Kean,
Shakespeare, & Wordsworth
- January 1818: The Mermaid Tavern; Eagles rather than Owls; Toward Vastness & the
Unobtrusive Subject
- 14 June 1819: Strapped for Cash, Averse to Writing, Ability Summoned, & No Longer
a
Versifying Pet-Lamb
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- Keats reviews Kean’s Richard III
- Keats reviews Richard III in, and its importance
- poetry of Keats that it publishes
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(1752–1770); boy wonder poet of wide, ambitious
talents; most notable for his invention of some fifteenth-century poems, written by
a fake
poet, Thomas Rowley; commits suicide, aged 17; popular with other Romantic writers
as the
idealized youthful, martyred, suffering poet; Keats’s dedicates Endymion to him; one of Keats’s earliest known poem is his 1815
Oh Chatterton! How very sad thy
fate, which mourns the sad outcome for the young genius
who now sings
among the stars;
Keats comes to believe that Chatterton’s verse possesses a pure
English idiom, as opposed to Milton’s extraordinary but beautiful corruptions of the
language.
(?1343–1400): successful poet,
member of the Royal Service, customs comptroller, diplomatic service officer/courtier,
astronomer, translator; famous for his Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good
Women, and The Book of the Duchess; often favored as
the father
of English Literature; Keats is fully familiar with Chaucer (he has no
problem quoting Chaucer fairly casually); with some nostalgia, Keats associates Chaucer
with a
high, noble point in English literary history; Keats writes one of his poems (This pleasant
tale is like a copse
) into a copy of a friend’s copy of Chaucer’s works, where Keats
also makes textual markings in Troilus and Criseyde, indicating
a close study of Chaucer’s observations and characterization—in a letter to his lover
Fanny
Brawne, Keats identifies with Troilus enough to express his fears to Fanny’s about
her
faithfulness (Feb 1820).
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Blackwood, of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; acting for his friend John Gibson Lockhart,
who
writes for Blackwood’s, Christie (as Lockhart’s second) in February 1821 kills the
John Scott,
editor of The London Magazine and defender of Hunt and Keats, in a duel over the integrity
of
Blackwood’s, which Scott has been slamming; tried for wilful murder and acquitted
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freethinking daughter of William Godwin’s second wife; stepsister to Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley; mother to an illegitimate daughter (Allegra) with Lord Byron, who she pursued
both
before and after the birth of Allegra (who dies aged five); part of Percy Shelley’s
entourage
between 1814–1822; importantly, Claire introduces Shelley to Byron.
(1788–1870): surgeon, trained at University of
Edinburgh; treated Keats’s tuberculosis in Rome with care but in keeping with ill-informed
contemporary practice (e.g., bloodletting, dieting, exercising). It might also be
noted that,
in 1821, Clark was in the early stage of his medical career, having gained his MD
in 1817.
(1787–1877): teacher, publisher (including
music), bookseller, informed musical and literary interests; later an art and theatre
reviewer, extensive lectures on Shakespeare, and very minor poet; son of Keats’s headmaster
at
Enfield; widely connected to literary circles of the day; strong and important (if
not
crucial) early influence on Keats’s literary tastes, as well as, early on, very close
to
Keats; very significantly, he introduces Keats to Leigh Hunt in 1816, thus greatly
expanding
Keats’s London social network; he mainly drops out of Keats’s circle in 1817; strong
defender
of Keats’s posthumous reputation; Keats writes a verse letter to Clarke in October
1816,
thanking him for tutoring his literary passions; marries Vincent Novello’s daughter,
Mary.
- early influence on Keats’s poetry
- give Keats early poetic directions
- introduces Keats to Hunt
- introduces Keats to Hunts and as mentor
- introduces Keats to Leigh Hunt
- Keats acknowledges his early poetic debt to
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- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- December 1802: Solidly Middle Class & Dispelling the Myth of Keats
- 1803-1811: Clarke’s Academy in Enfield, Keats’s Education, & the Headmaster’s Son
- 20 March 1810: His Mother Dies, & What Death Means for Young Keats
- 1811-1815: Medical Apprenticeship & Charles Cowden Clarke
- August 1814: Keats Visits the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- 9 October 1816:
An Era in My Existence
: Leigh Hunt, a Crash Course, & taking
possession with Chapman’s Homer
- 19 October 1816: A Crucial Moment: Meeting Leigh Hunt & the London Scene
- 2 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Publication of On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
- 11 December 1816: Meeting Percy Shelley: Joined but not Close
- 14/15 December 1816:
A Whoreson Night
& A Too-tippy I stood
tip-toe
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- 3 March 1817: Keats’s First Collection, Poems, is Published
- 1 May 1819: The Great Odes, Amulets Against Ennui, & the Mystery of Greatness
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
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theologian, philosopher, lecturer, extraordinary conversationalist, and living legend
by the
time of Keats’s chance encounter with him in April 1819; a genius, compromised by
addiction
issues and an overly ambitious spread of intellectual interests; forever paired with
William Wordsworth;
Keats is fully acquainted with his poetry as well as some of his ideas and literary
criticism.
- Coleridge’s complex personality
Desperately Seeking Coleridge
- Frost at Midnight, connection to Keats’s On the Grasshopper and Cricket
- Keats accidentally runs into
- Keats walks with and humorously records
- Keats’s familiarity with his work
- Kubla Khan, a negatively capable poem
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- 31 October 1795: Keats is Born into a Growing, Successful Family
- Keats’s Family Home,
1797
- 27 October 1816: The Intellectual Network & Haydon
- 30 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Early Poetic Strivings
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- 16 February 1817: The Examiner publishes Keats’s To Kosciusko
- 15 December 1817: Kean’s Remarkable Richard III: the
Development of a Crucial Idea
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 31 December 1817: The Dimensions of Poetic Accomplishment for Keats; or, The
Anti-Wordsworthian Wordsworthian
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 11 April 1819: Two Miles &
a Thousand Things
: A Walking Talk by Coleridge
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 12 May 1819: Viewless Wings & the Complex Play of Consciousness & Imagination: Ode to a Nightingale
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
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India; a woman whose shape,
Keats writes, haunts him for a couple of days in September
1818; Keats still seems intrigued by her into October, when he describes her rich eastern
look,
how, when she enters a room, she makes an impression the same as the Beauty of
a Leopardess,
that she is a fine thing
with magnetic powers,
and how other
women become jealous of her; Keats nominates her as Charmian
(letter, 14 Oct 1818);
interestingly, and consistent with his notion of the camelion poet
that can enter and
sympathetically assume the subjects he imaginatively contemplates, Keats writes, I forget
myself entirely because I live in her.
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political expert, and fascinated by French Revolution documents; co-founder of and
contributor
to the Quarterly Review; writes a nasty review of Keats’s
Endymion (published September 1818), nominating Keats as
an unintelligible copyist
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for his poetic trilogy, The Divine Comedy; Keats read Henry Francis Cary’s 1805 translation,
and certainly its first section, Inferno, into which he makes many markings; Keats
begins to
master Italian in order to read Dante more fully; Keats takes the three volumes of
Cary’s
translation taken on his Scottish walking tour; Dante’s influence is perhaps most
apparent in
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training, literary and journal editor, scholarly interests in Renaissance drama; co-owner
(with Charles Brown) of Wentworth place (now Keats House) in Hampstead, where Keats
lives on a
few occasions; Keats meets via Reynolds; Keats becomes very friendly with Dilke and
Dilke’s
family, which he often visits; however, they seem not to approve of Keats’s relationship
with
Fanny Brawne; the Dilke family is supportive of Keats’s other family members and of
Keats’s
posthumous reputation.
- as a Godwinist
- co-owner of Wentworth Place and friend of Keats
- Keats sees a pantomime with
- Keats stays with his parents on a short trip
- Keats’s good friend and co-owner of Wentworth Place
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 26 December 1817: Harlequin’s Vision & Philosophical Directions: Kean,
Shakespeare, & Wordsworth
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 18 January 1819: Chichester, Bedhampton, Haydon as Martyr, & The
Eve of St. Agnes
- 3 April 1819: Fanny Brawne, Complex Associations, & Poetry without Progress
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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his name is given over to marble sculptures from the Parthenon (c.500 B. C. E.) that
Elgin
organizes to preserve in England; after problems housing the Elgin Marbles, he eventually
sells them to the nation, where they are displayed in the British Museum in 1816;
Keats sees
them in early March 1817; they immediately impact his artistic sensibilities and the
way that,
without knowing details about what is represented in the sculptures, they remain powerful
in
their trans-historical beauty; Keats writes two of his better early poems connected
to his
experience:
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
and
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on
Seeing the Elgin Marbles.
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- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- April 1817: Keats & Sovereign Shakespeare
- 14 April 1817: Endymion: A Test of Perseverance & the
Lurking Keatsian Question
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 24 April 1817: Toward Endymion, the Temple of Fame, & Why I
Should be a Poet
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 16 May 1817: Canterbury, Daily Work on Endymion,
Ultimate
Progression,
& Hunt’s Damning Influence
- 13 July 1817: No Natural Proportion: Hunt Reviews Keats’s Poems
& the Vast Idea
- 17 August 1817: Keats’s
On the Sea
is Published; The
Champion
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- Early October 1817: Haydon’s Influence & the Problem of Literary Men
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 25 October 1817: Visit to James Rice & Some Key Questions
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 15 December 1817: Kean’s Remarkable Richard III: the
Development of a Crucial Idea
- The third week of December 1817: Keats Meets Wordsworth
- 20 December 1817: Art Without Intensity: Keats sees Benjamin West’s
Death on the Pale
Horse
- 21 December 1817: Keats as Kean, Kean as Keats, Endymion as
Filler
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 28 December 1817: Haydon & the Immortal Dinner
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- 5 January 1818: Charles Wells & the Not-to-be Interrupted Wordsworth
- 12 January 1818: A Night on the Town: from John Bull to Richard III to Gradual Ripening
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 18 January 1818: Keats’s Triple-H: Hunt, Haydon, Hazlitt
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 5 February 1818: Busy Times, Busy Thoughts
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- 6 March 1818: Endymion: A Trial of Perseverance; or, Mistakes
are Opportunities for Learning; To Teignmouth; the Keats/Hunt Relationship
- 6 March-4 May 1818: Floody, Muddy; Keats’s Announced Immaturity; & a Mansion of Many
Apartments
- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- May 1818: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Leigh Hunt Damned
& Keats as Infatuated Bardling: Z
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 24 October 1818: Romantic Encounters, Sublime Solitude, & Passion for the Beautiful;
Keats’s Predicted Greatness
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- 25 December 1818: Fanny Brawne’s Ways, the Hyperion Project, & Greatness in a Shade
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2 February 1819: “The Eve of St. Agnes”: Evocative without Affectation
- 24 February 1819: Indolence, Family Money, & Hopes for a Rousing Spring
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 14 March 1819: A Medical Future or Great Poetry? A Pivotal Keatsian Moment
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 16 August 1820: Sinking with Shelley
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- 23 February 1821: The Death of a Poet:
Youth Grows Pale, and Spectre-thin, and Dies
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Selected Criticism about Keats
- Keats completes
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
- People mentioned
- Index
- ENDYMION: A Poetic Romance.
- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- 14 April 1817: Endymion: A Test of Perseverance & the
Lurking Keatsian Question
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 24 April 1817: Toward Endymion, the Temple of Fame, & Why I
Should be a Poet
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 16 May 1817: Canterbury, Daily Work on Endymion,
Ultimate
Progression,
& Hunt’s Damning Influence
- 13 July 1817: No Natural Proportion: Hunt Reviews Keats’s Poems
& the Vast Idea
- 17 August 1817: Keats’s
On the Sea
is Published; The
Champion
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 25 October 1817: Visit to James Rice & Some Key Questions
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 15 December 1817: Kean’s Remarkable Richard III: the
Development of a Crucial Idea
- The third week of December 1817: Keats Meets Wordsworth
- 20 December 1817: Art Without Intensity: Keats sees Benjamin West’s
Death on the Pale
Horse
- 21 December 1817: Keats as Kean, Kean as Keats, Endymion as
Filler
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 28 December 1817: Haydon & the Immortal Dinner
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- 5 January 1818: Charles Wells & the Not-to-be Interrupted Wordsworth
- 12 January 1818: A Night on the Town: from John Bull to Richard III to Gradual Ripening
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 5 February 1818: Busy Times, Busy Thoughts
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- 6 March 1818: Endymion: A Trial of Perseverance; or, Mistakes
are Opportunities for Learning; To Teignmouth; the Keats/Hunt Relationship
- 6 March-4 May 1818: Floody, Muddy; Keats’s Announced Immaturity; & a Mansion of Many
Apartments
- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- May 1818: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Leigh Hunt Damned
& Keats as Infatuated Bardling: Z
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 24 October 1818: Romantic Encounters, Sublime Solitude, & Passion for the Beautiful;
Keats’s Predicted Greatness
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- 25 December 1818: Fanny Brawne’s Ways, the Hyperion Project, & Greatness in a Shade
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2 February 1819: “The Eve of St. Agnes”: Evocative without Affectation
- 24 February 1819: Indolence, Family Money, & Hopes for a Rousing Spring
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 14 March 1819: A Medical Future or Great Poetry? A Pivotal Keatsian Moment
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 16 August 1820: Sinking with Shelley
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- 23 February 1821: The Death of a Poet:
Youth Grows Pale, and Spectre-thin, and Dies
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
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- drafted the last weeks of January 1819
- embodying the poetical realm of ahistorical beauty
- evocative without affectation
- is written and its quality
- its fine excess
- Keats wants published as soon as possible
- ornate, allusive, atmospheric
- perhaps suggested by Isabella Jones
- some revisions to
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 18 January 1819: Chichester, Bedhampton, Haydon as Martyr, & The
Eve of St. Agnes
- 25 January 1819: A Gothic Church & Achievement in Waiting
- 2 February 1819: “The Eve of St. Agnes”: Evocative without Affectation
- 24 February 1819: Indolence, Family Money, & Hopes for a Rousing Spring
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 12 May 1819: Viewless Wings & the Complex Play of Consciousness & Imagination: Ode to a Nightingale
- 31 May 1819: Controlled Intensity & Timeless Drama: Ode on a
Grecian Urn
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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- December 1802: Solidly Middle Class & Dispelling the Myth of Keats
- 1803-1811: Clarke’s Academy in Enfield, Keats’s Education, & the Headmaster’s Son
- 1803-1811: Clarke’s Academy in Enfield, Keats’s Education, & the Headmaster’s Son
- 1811-1815: Medical Apprenticeship & Charles Cowden Clarke
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- 15 October 1815: Keats’s Continues Medical Training; But a Poet He Will Be—he hopes
- October 1815: Keats’s Lodging as a Medical Student; Keats’s Interests in being a Poet
- October 1815: Keats’s Lodging as a Medical Student; Keats’s Interests in being a Poet
- 5 May 1816: To Solitude: Keats’s First Published Poem, Leigh
Hunt’s Liberal Spirit of Thinking, The Examiner, & the Possibilities of a Literary
Life
- 25 July 1816: Keats Passes Medical Exams
- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- 9 October 1816:
An Era in My Existence
: Leigh Hunt, a Crash Course, & taking
possession with Chapman’s Homer
- 19 October 1816: A Crucial Moment: Meeting Leigh Hunt & the London Scene
- 19 October 1816: A Crucial Moment: Meeting Leigh Hunt & the London Scene
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- November to December 1816: Busy & Important Months: An Expanding World yet Cloying,
Aspirational Poetry
- 2 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Publication of On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
- 2 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Publication of On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
- 11 December 1816: Meeting Percy Shelley: Joined but not Close
- 14/15 December 1816:
A Whoreson Night
& A Too-tippy I stood
tip-toe
- 30 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Early Poetic Strivings
- 20 January 1817: Dinner with Horace Smith, Expanding Connections, & Toward the 1817
Collection
- 16 February 1817: The Examiner publishes Keats’s To Kosciusko
- 16 February 1817: The Examiner publishes Keats’s To Kosciusko
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 1 or 2 March 1817: Keats’s On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- 24 April 1817: Toward Endymion, the Temple of Fame, & Why I
Should be a Poet
- 13 July 1817: No Natural Proportion: Hunt Reviews Keats’s Poems
& the Vast Idea
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- Early October 1817: Haydon’s Influence & the Problem of Literary Men
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 15 December 1817: Kean’s Remarkable Richard III: the
Development of a Crucial Idea
- 21 December 1817: Keats as Kean, Kean as Keats, Endymion as
Filler
- 31 December 1817: The Dimensions of Poetic Accomplishment for Keats; or, The
Anti-Wordsworthian Wordsworthian
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- January 1818: The Mermaid Tavern; Eagles rather than Owls; Toward Vastness & the
Unobtrusive Subject
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 22 October 1818: Walking With Hazlitt, Thinking Like Hazlitt, Not Playing Rackets
Like Hazlitt
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 14 June 1819: Strapped for Cash, Averse to Writing, Ability Summoned, & No Longer
a
Versifying Pet-Lamb
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- 23 February 1821: The Death of a Poet:
Youth Grows Pale, and Spectre-thin, and Dies
- Keats first published in
- a liberal-progressive journal
- On First
Looking into Chapman’s Homer published in
- People mentioned
- People mentioned
- poems of Keats published in
- prints a defence of Keats
- produced by Leigh Hunt
- published by the Hunts and central to the beginning of Keats’s career
- publishes Keats’s first poem, O
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dramatist; contemporary of Shakespeare; in January 1818, Keats writes a poem about
an evening
at the Mermaid Inn in Cheapside, where he imagines Jonson, Fletcher, Beaumont, and
Shakespeare
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philosopher, essayist, novelist, biographer; husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father
of Mary
Shelley, father-in-law of Percy Shelley; inspirational for many Romantic-era writers,
representing anarchist, radical, and individualist views, yet strong beliefs in reason,
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to Keats’s maternal family, the Jennings’; after being pulled from school (aged 14),
Keats
apprentices with Hammond 1811–1815; family money (generated by selling stocks) is
used to pay
Hammond’s supervisory fees; Keats later remembers that he had some defiant moments
with
Hammond (see letter, 21 Sept 1819), though the period with Hammond also has periods
of
relative security; perhaps the relationship is somewhat compromised by Keats’s growing
interest in poetry and Hammond’s failing health.
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devoted friend of Keats when he is in need, as well as Keats’s siblings (especially
to Keats’s
brother, Tom, when he is sick); Keats likely meets him via brother George; Haslam
is the one
to suggest Severn accompany Keats to Italy, a trip he helps finance.
- accompanies Keats to Gravesend
- 16 March 1816: Keats, Joseph Severn, Spenser, & Chivalric Infatuations
- 3 January 1818: Keats Calls on Wordsworth
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 18 January 1818: Keats’s Triple-H: Hunt, Haydon, Hazlitt
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 21 October 1820:
This Kind of Suffering
; Arrival in Naples, Not in the World, &
An Intellect in Splints
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
(1786–1846): historical painter, diarist,
lecturer; ambitious, volatile, combative; his artistic achievement compromised by
pride,
inflexible principles, and ego—and a very slow pace; passionate and devoted friend
of Keats
after meeting him via Leigh Hunt; true believer in Keats’s genius (and his own); Keats
initially equally devoted to Haydon, but increasingly put off by his contentious personality;
he thought a great deal about great art (which Keats, importantly, would have heard
much
about), but overestimated the greatness of his own; commits suicide after lengthy
struggles
with debt and professional failure; largely responsible for England retaining the
Elgin
Marbles.
- and the beginning of Keats’s intellectual and social network
- as a close friend of Keats
- as a kindred soul to and encourager of Keats
- as Keats’s affectionate, devoted friend
- as Keats’s mentor and very close friend
- asks Keats for a loan
- Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, displayed and painted by
- competitive with Hunt of Keats’s attentions
- defender of the Elgin Marbles
- encourages Keats to study and to avoid despair
- has done a life-mask and painting that includes Keats
- his character and relationship with Keats
- his character and relationship with Keats
- his relationship with Keats
- his suicide
immortal dinner
- influence on Keats (truth and beauty)
- influence on Keats
- influence on Keats
- Keats dines with at Smith’s residence
- Keats is introduced to Wordsworth by
- Keats loans money to
- Keats meets and lunches with
- Keats meets via Hunt
- Keats meets via Hunt
- Keats meets Wordsworth through
- Keats meets Wordsworth via
- Keats writes about his dire need for money to
- Keats writes to about Hunt’s delusions of poetic greatness
- Keats writes to about indolence and his poetic future
- Keats writes to about the merit of Endymion
- Keats’s affectionate friend
- Keats’s good but uneven friend
- Keats’s relationship slowing fading with
- life-masks of Wordsworth and Keats are made by
- money issues involving
- moves his studio
- moves his studio
- moves Keats from under the sway of Hunt
- mutual admiration for Keats
- painting Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem
- presses Keats for a loan
- sees the Elgin Marbles with Keats
- shares ideas about Hunt with Keats
- takes Keats to see Elgin Marbles
- tells young Keats to read Shakespeare
- the complex personality of
- the terrible suicide of
- very upset that Keats has deceived him about getting a loan
- waning friendship with
- warns Keats about Hunt’s influence
- weans Keats away from Hunt’s sway
- well known historical painter
- will eventually commit suicide
- will introduce Keats to Wordsworth
- will make a life-mask of Keats in December 1816
- Wordsworth, Lamb, Keats, attend a dinner put on by
- Keats’s Family Home,
1797
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- 9 October 1816:
An Era in My Existence
: Leigh Hunt, a Crash Course, & taking
possession with Chapman’s Homer
- 19 October 1816: A Crucial Moment: Meeting Leigh Hunt & the London Scene
- 27 October 1816: The Intellectual Network & Haydon
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- 3 November 1816: Benjamin Robert Haydon: His Life & his Eventual Suicide
- November to December 1816: Busy & Important Months: An Expanding World yet Cloying,
Aspirational Poetry
- 14/15 December 1816:
A Whoreson Night
& A Too-tippy I stood
tip-toe
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- 20 January 1817: Dinner with Horace Smith, Expanding Connections, & Toward the 1817
Collection
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 1 or 2 March 1817: Keats’s On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- 3 March 1817: Keats’s First Collection, Poems, is Published
- April 1817: Keats & Sovereign Shakespeare
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 24 April 1817: Toward Endymion, the Temple of Fame, & Why I
Should be a Poet
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- Early October 1817: Haydon’s Influence & the Problem of Literary Men
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 15 December 1817: Kean’s Remarkable Richard III: the
Development of a Crucial Idea
- The third week of December 1817: Keats Meets Wordsworth
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 28 December 1817: Haydon & the Immortal Dinner
- 31 December 1817: The Dimensions of Poetic Accomplishment for Keats; or, The
Anti-Wordsworthian Wordsworthian
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- 3 January 1818: Keats Calls on Wordsworth
- 12 January 1818: A Night on the Town: from John Bull to Richard III to Gradual Ripening
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 18 January 1818: Keats’s Triple-H: Hunt, Haydon, Hazlitt
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 5 February 1818: Busy Times, Busy Thoughts
- 20 February 1818: Pall Mall Pictures & Delicious, Diligent Indolence
- 6 March 1818: Endymion: A Trial of Perseverance; or, Mistakes
are Opportunities for Learning; To Teignmouth; the Keats/Hunt Relationship
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 26 June 1818:
Sad—sad—sad
: Lord Wordsworth’s Politics & Forms of Permanence
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 18 January 1819: Chichester, Bedhampton, Haydon as Martyr, & The
Eve of St. Agnes
- 25 January 1819: A Gothic Church & Achievement in Waiting
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 14 March 1819: A Medical Future or Great Poetry? A Pivotal Keatsian Moment
- 25 March 1819: Straining at Particles: A Temperament of Disinterestedness
- 29 March 1819: Joseph Severn’s Miniature of Keats; Art, & Loose Ends
- 3 April 1819: Fanny Brawne, Complex Associations, & Poetry without Progress
- 11 April 1819: Two Miles &
a Thousand Things
: A Walking Talk by Coleridge
- 31 May 1819: Controlled Intensity & Timeless Drama: Ode on a
Grecian Urn
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 9 June 1819: Abatement of Fame; or, Beg What You Can for Me; & No More Pet-Lambing
Verse
- 14 June 1819: Strapped for Cash, Averse to Writing, Ability Summoned, & No Longer
a
Versifying Pet-Lamb
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
- Pictures/Picturing, Images/Imagining: Representing & Reproducing Junkets
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critic (literary, theatre, art), journalist, brilliant essayist, lecturer; blunt advocate
of
human rights and liberty, passionately opinionated, often quarrelsome, intellectually
driven;
meets Keats late 1816; through his lectures and writing, significantly influences
Keats’s
maturing tastes and ideas, especially about Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Elizabethan literature,
literary worth, poetic genius, poetic originality, the principle of disinterestedness
and
gusto, and the sympathetic powers of imagination; becomes a friend and a formidable
defender
of Keats and his poetry, especially against the hypocrisy of partisan reviewing; acquaintance
with many of the era’s leading literary figures.
- a few key Keats ideas derive from
- an important factor in Keats’s poetic development
- and Keats’s poetics
- Caleb Williams, Hazlitt’s strong appraisal of quoted by Keats
- Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, Keats reads and its importance
- critical of Wordsworth’s all-consuming subjectivity
- his accumulative and crucial influence on Keats’s poetics
- his acquaintance with Keats
- his idea of the camelion poet borrowed by Keats
- his ideas about enduring and important poetry, influencing Keats
- his lectures and Keats’s contact with, his importance
- his lectures
- his opinion of Wordsworth’s Gipsies
- influence on Keats
- influence on Keats’s idea of Wordsworth
- influence on Keats’s thinking
- Keats admires, relative to Wordsworth and Hunt
- Keats attends his lectures
- Keats parties with
- Keats reads and his importance
- Keats walks with
- Keats’s developing poetics leans upon
- Keats’s progress aided by contact with and reading of
- Lectures on the English Poets, Keats wants to get hold of
- like Keats, included in Haydon’s painting, Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem
- on the peculiarity of Shakespeare’s mind, which Keats borrows
- some of Keats’s poetics derive from
- speaking on Pope and Dryden
- speaking on Pope and Dryden
- speaking on Pope and Dryden
- speaking on the English poets
- speaking on the English poets
- speaking on the English poets
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- 27 October 1816: The Intellectual Network & Haydon
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- 16 February 1817: The Examiner publishes Keats’s To Kosciusko
- April 1817: Keats & Sovereign Shakespeare
- 16 May 1817: Canterbury, Daily Work on Endymion,
Ultimate
Progression,
& Hunt’s Damning Influence
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 25 October 1817: Visit to James Rice & Some Key Questions
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 15 December 1817: Kean’s Remarkable Richard III: the
Development of a Crucial Idea
- 20 December 1817: Art Without Intensity: Keats sees Benjamin West’s
Death on the Pale
Horse
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 28 December 1817: Haydon & the Immortal Dinner
- 31 December 1817: The Dimensions of Poetic Accomplishment for Keats; or, The
Anti-Wordsworthian Wordsworthian
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- 3 January 1818: Keats Calls on Wordsworth
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 18 January 1818: Keats’s Triple-H: Hunt, Haydon, Hazlitt
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 5 February 1818: Busy Times, Busy Thoughts
- 20 February 1818: Pall Mall Pictures & Delicious, Diligent Indolence
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 26 June 1818:
Sad—sad—sad
: Lord Wordsworth’s Politics & Forms of Permanence
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 22 October 1818: Walking With Hazlitt, Thinking Like Hazlitt, Not Playing Rackets
Like Hazlitt
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 29 March 1819: Joseph Severn’s Miniature of Keats; Art, & Loose Ends
- 11 April 1819: Two Miles &
a Thousand Things
: A Walking Talk by Coleridge
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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of Keats’s publisher, Taylor & Hessey; strongly believes in Keats’s poetic potential,
and
with John Taylor basically sponsors Keats’s publishing career.
- Keats assigns copyright to for his three books
- Keats drops by the offices of
- Keats’s last collection (1820) is announced by publishers
- pay Keats for copyrights for his books
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 3 March 1817: Keats’s First Collection, Poems, is Published
- 14 April 1817: Endymion: A Test of Perseverance & the
Lurking Keatsian Question
- 24 April 1817: Toward Endymion, the Temple of Fame, & Why I
Should be a Poet
- 16 May 1817: Canterbury, Daily Work on Endymion,
Ultimate
Progression,
& Hunt’s Damning Influence
- 13 July 1817: No Natural Proportion: Hunt Reviews Keats’s Poems
& the Vast Idea
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- 6 March 1818: Endymion: A Trial of Perseverance; or, Mistakes
are Opportunities for Learning; To Teignmouth; the Keats/Hunt Relationship
- 6 March-4 May 1818: Floody, Muddy; Keats’s Announced Immaturity; & a Mansion of Many
Apartments
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 24 February 1819: Indolence, Family Money, & Hopes for a Rousing Spring
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 20 December 1819: Without the Poetry of 1819 . . .
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 13-16 September 1820: To Italy: Beyond Every Thing Horrible & a Sense of Darkness
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
(1760–1840): book-collector, dry-salter; friend of
Leigh Hunt; joint owner/editor of The Monthly Mirror
(defunct by 1811); centre of a minor literary circle; Keats once dines with him.
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very close friend to Percy Shelley, and his first biographer (1858); Keats dines with,
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February 1818, along with Percy and Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, and Claire
(Mary Jane)
Clairmont.
(1797-1859): musician, music critic, and writer of
books about music; his biographies on Mozart and Purcell of some note; though a bit
younger,
one of Keats’s school fellows; his recollections of schoolboy Keats are valuable;
met with
Keats on occasion in company; stayed within the circle of Keats’s friends throughout
his life;
likely the anonymous writer (Y) of a defence of Keats after Keats’s death, in The Morning Chronicle, 27 July 1821.
(?7th, ?8th, or ?9th century, B. C. E.): name ascribed to the
ancient Greek poet, proposed writer of the Iliad and Odyssey, often viewed as Western Culture’s most influential epic
poems; Keats’s most famous engagement with Homer comes to us via what is sometimes
considered
Keats’s earliest accomplished poem,
On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
; Keats writes a second poem,
To Homer, in 1818; which identifies with Homer
for his insights in blindness; in assessing Homer, Keats writes he is very fine
(letters 13 March 1818), and that he longs to feast upon old Homer
(27 April 1818);
according to one of Keats’s close friends, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Keats is especially
taken
by the figure of Achilles.
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Leigh Hunt and co-founder of The Examiner.
(1784–1859): poet, literary critic, editor, journalist,
essayist, periodical publisher; charming, somewhat affected personality, energetic,
poor with
money; editor of the independent and free-thinking Examiner
newspaper as well as other periodical publications; jailed two years for libeling
the Prince
Regent; first to publish Keats; Keats initially enthralled with Hunt, and Hunt fully
struck by
Keats’s personality and poetic potential; crucially, Hunt introduces Keats into literary
London; Keats spends plenty of time with Hunt, and they know each other very well;
Keats,
though, comes to privately resent Hunt’s poetic pretensions and egotisms, yet Hunt’s
kindness
toward Keats continued; Keats is forever identified with Hunt as a member of maligned
“Cockney
School of Poetry.”
- affectation in Hunt’s title
- affectation in Hunt’s title
- after severe blood-spitting, Keats taken in by
- and faux-fame
- as a mentor for Keats
- as a supporter of Keats
- as Keats’s mentor
- attacked for indecent values
- central to Keats’s social expansion
- delusions of poetic greatness of
- early influence on Keats
- early influence on Keats’s directions
- encourages Keats to publish his first volume
- generously takes Keats in after blood-spitting
- has a lock of Milton’s hair that Keats’s writes a poem about
- his
Book of Hair
- his early then waning influence on Keats
- his Foliage volume attacked and Keats’s association with
- his library, where Keats gets inspiration
- his poetry attacked by Blackwood’s
- his poetry attacked by Blackwood’s
- importantly connecting Keats with an intellectual network
- inflated sense of accomplishment
- influence on Keats
- influence on Keats
- introduces Keats in to a network of friends
- Keats comments on his self-delusions
- Keats dines with at Smith’s residence
- Keats early poetry is connected with Hunt’s foppery and affectation
- Keats introduced into a London network by
- Keats meets Reynolds through
- Keats meets via Clarke
- Keats no longer admires
- Keats publicly seen as follower of
- Keats says he wants no more of his kind of poetry
- Keats seen as Hunt’s
infatuated bardling
- Keats stays with after blood-spitting (hemoptysis)
- Keats stays with after blood-spitting
- Keats taken in by after a bout of blood-spitting
- Keats very grateful to for allowing him to stay
- Keats will have to go beyond his influence
- Keats will meet through Clarke
- Keats writes to about sleeplessness
- Keats’s association with
- Keats’s early collection influenced by
- Keats’s fears about being seen as Hunts’ prototype
- Keats’s growing doubts about Hunt’s character and literary worth
- Keats’s mentor and then anti-mentor
- Keats’s progress as a reaction against
- Keats’s progress tied to consciously moving away from the influence of
- mentioned by Keats as of the great spirits of the age
- publisher of The Examiner
- recommends the Olliers as publishers
- released from jail
- reviewed nastily by Blackwood’s and Keats’s association with
- reviews Keats’s first collection, Poems
- shows Keats’s poetry to Godwin, Hazlitt, the Shelleys, Basil Montagu
- the egotism and taste
- the first attack on Hunt in Blackwood’s by
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- the kind of poetry Keats writes in part derives from
- The Story of Rimini, Keats infatuated with
- two opposite and similar men
- what in Hunt’s poetry Keats needs to avoid
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- 31 October 1795: Keats is Born into a Growing, Successful Family
- December 1802: Solidly Middle Class & Dispelling the Myth of Keats
- 20 March 1810: His Mother Dies, & What Death Means for Young Keats
- 1811-1815: Medical Apprenticeship & Charles Cowden Clarke
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- 15 October 1815: Keats’s Continues Medical Training; But a Poet He Will Be—he hopes
- October 1815: Keats’s Lodging as a Medical Student; Keats’s Interests in being a Poet
- November 1815: The Mathew Family
- 16 March 1816: Keats, Joseph Severn, Spenser, & Chivalric Infatuations
- 5 May 1816: To Solitude: Keats’s First Published Poem, Leigh
Hunt’s Liberal Spirit of Thinking, The Examiner, & the Possibilities of a Literary
Life
- 25 July 1816: Keats Passes Medical Exams
- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- 9 October 1816:
An Era in My Existence
: Leigh Hunt, a Crash Course, & taking
possession with Chapman’s Homer
- 19 October 1816: A Crucial Moment: Meeting Leigh Hunt & the London Scene
- 27 October 1816: The Intellectual Network & Haydon
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- 3 November 1816: Benjamin Robert Haydon: His Life & his Eventual Suicide
- November to December 1816: Busy & Important Months: An Expanding World yet Cloying,
Aspirational Poetry
- 2 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Publication of On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
- 11 December 1816: Meeting Percy Shelley: Joined but not Close
- 14/15 December 1816:
A Whoreson Night
& A Too-tippy I stood
tip-toe
- 30 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Early Poetic Strivings
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- 20 January 1817: Dinner with Horace Smith, Expanding Connections, & Toward the 1817
Collection
- 16 February 1817: The Examiner publishes Keats’s To Kosciusko
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 1 or 2 March 1817: Keats’s On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- 3 March 1817: Keats’s First Collection, Poems, is Published
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 24 April 1817: Toward Endymion, the Temple of Fame, & Why I
Should be a Poet
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 16 May 1817: Canterbury, Daily Work on Endymion,
Ultimate
Progression,
& Hunt’s Damning Influence
- 13 July 1817: No Natural Proportion: Hunt Reviews Keats’s Poems
& the Vast Idea
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- Early October 1817: Haydon’s Influence & the Problem of Literary Men
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 25 October 1817: Visit to James Rice & Some Key Questions
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 21 December 1817: Keats as Kean, Kean as Keats, Endymion as
Filler
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 28 December 1817: Haydon & the Immortal Dinner
- 31 December 1817: The Dimensions of Poetic Accomplishment for Keats; or, The
Anti-Wordsworthian Wordsworthian
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- January 1818: The Mermaid Tavern; Eagles rather than Owls; Toward Vastness & the
Unobtrusive Subject
- 3 January 1818: Keats Calls on Wordsworth
- 12 January 1818: A Night on the Town: from John Bull to Richard III to Gradual Ripening
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 18 January 1818: Keats’s Triple-H: Hunt, Haydon, Hazlitt
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 5 February 1818: Busy Times, Busy Thoughts
- 6 March 1818: Endymion: A Trial of Perseverance; or, Mistakes
are Opportunities for Learning; To Teignmouth; the Keats/Hunt Relationship
- 6 March-4 May 1818: Floody, Muddy; Keats’s Announced Immaturity; & a Mansion of Many
Apartments
- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- May 1818: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Leigh Hunt Damned
& Keats as Infatuated Bardling: Z
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 23 June 1818: Good-bye to George & Looking North
- 26 June 1818:
Sad—sad—sad
: Lord Wordsworth’s Politics & Forms of Permanence
- 11 July 1818: Burns’s Cottage & Heading North
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- 25 December 1818: Fanny Brawne’s Ways, the Hyperion Project, & Greatness in a Shade
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 14 March 1819: A Medical Future or Great Poetry? A Pivotal Keatsian Moment
- 29 March 1819: Joseph Severn’s Miniature of Keats; Art, & Loose Ends
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- 1 May 1819: The Great Odes, Amulets Against Ennui, & the Mystery of Greatness
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Dear MKP Reader….
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
- Pictures/Picturing, Images/Imagining: Representing & Reproducing Junkets
(fl. 1809): writer, older brother of Leigh Hunt, and
contributor to the Examiner.
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younger sister of Mary; once agonizingly pursued by Samuel Taylor Coleridge while
he was in an
unhappy marriage with another Sara (Fricker); Sara lives with the Wordsworths for
a number of
years; Keats meets her with the Wordsworths; Keats describes her as enchanting,
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he sees Wordsworth as living in protective Shell up north with his wife and sister
(letters 21 March 1818); a little later Sara will offer some comments about Keats’s
Endymion—that while it is beautiful,
it is uninteresting.
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 18 January 1818: Keats’s Triple-H: Hunt, Haydon, Hazlitt
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- 7 December 1818: Tom’s Burial, The Vice of Lending, & the Imperative to Work, Read,
Write
- 25 December 1818: Fanny Brawne’s Ways, the Hyperion Project, & Greatness in a Shade
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 18 January 1819: Chichester, Bedhampton, Haydon as Martyr, & The
Eve of St. Agnes
- 25 January 1819: A Gothic Church & Achievement in Waiting
- 2 February 1819: “The Eve of St. Agnes”: Evocative without Affectation
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 14 March 1819: A Medical Future or Great Poetry? A Pivotal Keatsian Moment
- 9 June 1819: Abatement of Fame; or, Beg What You Can for Me; & No More Pet-Lambing
Verse
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- Selected Criticism about Keats
- Index
- Hyperion: A Fragment. BOOK I
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- 25 December 1818: Fanny Brawne’s Ways, the Hyperion Project, & Greatness in a Shade
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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- Keats calls the kind of poetry best published after death
- Keats does not want published in the 1820 volume
- Keats writes, perhaps set off by lecture by Hazlitt
- the plot of and its poetic worth
- Woodhouse likes, Keats finds mawkish
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
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- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
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Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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and affectionate; generously takes take of Keats’s and his siblings after Keats’s
father
passes away and Keats’s mother’s unsteady behaviour; Keats holds her highly.
(1775–1810): Keats’s mother; small, attractive,
capable, perhaps impulsive; in 1794 marries Thomas Keats, who works at the Jennings’
family
business, the Swan and Hoop inn and stables as head ostler; after Keats’s father Thomas
dies
in 1804, she experiences some uneven moments, including a very hasty marriage a few
months
after Keats’s father passes, as well as gap in her whereabouts before she returns
to her
children; like Keats and his two younger brothers, she dies of consumption (TB) while
young
Keats passionately attends to her at his grandmother’s home.
- death of Keats’s mother
- Keats’s mother, marries
- 9 October 1794: Marriage of Keats’s Parents
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- 31 October 1795: Keats is Born into a Growing, Successful Family
- 1803-1811: Clarke’s Academy in Enfield, Keats’s Education, & the Headmaster’s Son
- 15 April 1804: Keats’s Father Dies in a Riding Accident
- 27 June 1804: Keats’s Mother Hastily Remarries; Consumption: the Family Complaint
- 8 March 1805: Death of Keats’s Grandfather; the Family Estate; to Edmonton with
Grandmother
- 20 March 1810: His Mother Dies, & What Death Means for Young Keats
- 1810 & Later: Richard Abbey, Keats’s Guardian & Trustee
- 19 December 1814: Keats’s Grandmother Buried; All Family Elders Gone; Money Troubles
Coming
- 5 January 1818: Charles Wells & the Not-to-be Interrupted Wordsworth
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- 20 December 1819: Without the Poetry of 1819 . . .
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 13-16 September 1820: To Italy: Beyond Every Thing Horrible & a Sense of Darkness
- 21 October 1820:
This Kind of Suffering
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An Intellect in Splints
- 15 November 1820: Rome:
Oh, God! God! God!
—An Awkward Bow to Life Having Past
- 9 December 1820:
Too Noble an Animal,
Despair in Every Shape,
& Thanks
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(1730–1805): Keats’s maternal grandfather; marries
Alice Jennings in 1774; owns the Swan and Hoop inn and stables, from which he does
well and
expands the business; retires 1802, leaving Keats’s father, Thomas, to run the business;
leaves significant money to Keats and his siblings, though not all of it discovered
until
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associations with Leigh Hunt; Keats perhaps buys his 7-volume edition of Shakespeare
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cultured woman, with whom Keats has some passing involvement in May 1817 that suggests
some
level of romantic intimacy; she may have suggested the Eve of St. Agnes and Eve of
St. Mark as
topics for Keats to write about; generous in some minor gifts to Keats and his brother,
Tom;
Keats may have written a few minor love poems that sound his attraction to and feelings
for
Isabella (“Unfelt, unheard, unseen,” “Hither, hither love,” “Hush, hush, tread softly”);
she
has some friends in Keats’s circle; Keats and Isabella agree to keep their passing
relationship quiet.
- Keats meets an older intriguing woman and has a romantic encounter with
- Keats walks with, have earlier
warmed
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- Keats’s continuing interest in
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 24 October 1818: Romantic Encounters, Sublime Solitude, & Passion for the Beautiful;
Keats’s Predicted Greatness
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 18 January 1819: Chichester, Bedhampton, Haydon as Martyr, & The
Eve of St. Agnes
(1572–1637): actor, poet, but especially successful and
highly influential Jacobean playwright of comedy; contemporary of Shakespeare (Shakespeare
may
have acted in one Jonson’s early plays); a volatile, quarrelsome, intense, and self-regarding
temperament; perhaps best known for Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair
(his poem, Song to Celia, has also become famous); because
Jonson receives a pension from the royal family in 1616, he is some ways the first
poet
laureate; Keats owned a copy of The Dramatic Works of Jonson,
and Beaumont and Fletcher (the 4-volume 1811 edition); in January 1818, Keats writes
a poem
about an evening at the Mermaid Inn in Cheapside, where he imagines Jonson, Fletcher,
Beaumont, and Shakespeare gathering:
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern.
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in Shakespearean tragedies; perhaps most notable as Richard III; an uneven personality,
plagued by vanity and insecurity, at times compromised by alcohol addiction; much
praised by
Keats’s friend, the critic William Hazlitt; Keats sees Kean perform on a few occasions
and is
struck by Kean’s forceful embodiment of actual words, which makes Keats reflect upon
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resemblance to brother Tom; after 1814 and until 1824, she was the ward of Richard
Abbey, the
family trustee, who at times thwarted contact between Fanny and Keats; Keats is very,
protective of her from an early age; some of his final thoughts are of Fanny; she
marries a
Spanish diplomat and writer in 1826.
- Abbey keeps Fanny from Keats
- Keats cannot see due to costs and health
- Keats gets to see after the death of Tom
- Keats is upset she is removed from school by Abbey
- Keats sees at Abbey’s
- Keats sees but Abbey’s attempts to sequester her
- Keats visits
- Keats’s worries about, being controlled by the Abbeys
- the family estate in light of Tom’s death and her young age
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- 18 December 1795: Keats is Baptized; Keats and his Religion
- December 1802: Solidly Middle Class & Dispelling the Myth of Keats
- 20 March 1810: His Mother Dies, & What Death Means for Young Keats
- 1810 & Later: Richard Abbey, Keats’s Guardian & Trustee
- 14 April 1817: Endymion: A Test of Perseverance & the
Lurking Keatsian Question
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- 25 October 1817: Visit to James Rice & Some Key Questions
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 1 July 1818: Robert Burns, Dirty Bacon, & the Irish Duchess of Dunghill
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- 7 December 1818: Tom’s Burial, The Vice of Lending, & the Imperative to Work, Read,
Write
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 18 January 1819: Chichester, Bedhampton, Haydon as Martyr, & The
Eve of St. Agnes
- 2 February 1819: “The Eve of St. Agnes”: Evocative without Affectation
- 24 February 1819: Indolence, Family Money, & Hopes for a Rousing Spring
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 25 March 1819: Straining at Particles: A Temperament of Disinterestedness
- 3 April 1819: Fanny Brawne, Complex Associations, & Poetry without Progress
- 1 May 1819: The Great Odes, Amulets Against Ennui, & the Mystery of Greatness
- 3 May 1819: The Odes: Mastery & Maturation via Controlled Intensity & Capable
Form
- 12 May 1819: Viewless Wings & the Complex Play of Consciousness & Imagination: Ode to a Nightingale
- 31 May 1819: Controlled Intensity & Timeless Drama: Ode on a
Grecian Urn
- 9 June 1819: Abatement of Fame; or, Beg What You Can for Me; & No More Pet-Lambing
Verse
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 25 July 1819: Shanklin, Fanny Brawne, & A Brighter Word than Bright
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- 20 December 1819: Without the Poetry of 1819 . . .
- 3 February 1820: Consumption:
That Drop of Blood
; I Wish I had a little
Hope
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 15 November 1820: Rome:
Oh, God! God! God!
—An Awkward Bow to Life Having Past
- Dear MKP Reader….
(1797–1841): older of Keats two younger brothers;
attended same school (in Enfield) as Keats; introduces Keats to some lasting friends;
outgoing, fairly ambitious, great belief in Keats’s poetic aspirations; very close
to Keats;
lives with his brothers at certain points; emigrates to America, June 1818, only to
experience
business failure; returns to England in 1820 to refinance himself from the family
estate,
which leads Keats to have some uncertainty about George’s motives; financial and personal
success on second trip to America (settling in Kentucky); Keats writes some very important
journal letters to George and his wife, Georgiana; dies of consumption.
- a buffer to the world for Keats
- consumption, dies of
- financial collapse in America
- his finances after the death of Tom
- his financial collapse in America and need for money
- Keats finally hears from in America
- Keats joins a Teignmouth
- Keats sees Abbey about family estate
- Keats sees Abbey to find out about helping
- Keats’s long journal letter to, October 1818
- leaves for America via Liverpool
- married, his reasons for going to America
- married, then off to America with his wife, Georgiana
- Ode to a Nightingale copy made by
- plans for marriage and move to America
- returns from America, collects a share of the Keats estate
- returns from America, collects a share of the Keats estate
- returns to America
- socializes with Keats upon returning from America
- the death of
- their importance
- writes to suffering Keats from Kentucky
- 9 October 1794: Marriage of Keats’s Parents
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- Keats’s Family Home,
1797
- December 1802: Solidly Middle Class & Dispelling the Myth of Keats
- 1803-1811: Clarke’s Academy in Enfield, Keats’s Education, & the Headmaster’s Son
- 27 June 1804: Keats’s Mother Hastily Remarries; Consumption: the Family Complaint
- 20 March 1810: His Mother Dies, & What Death Means for Young Keats
- 1810 & Later: Richard Abbey, Keats’s Guardian & Trustee
- 15 October 1815: Keats’s Continues Medical Training; But a Poet He Will Be—he hopes
- November 1815: The Mathew Family
- 16 March 1816: Keats, Joseph Severn, Spenser, & Chivalric Infatuations
- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- 9 October 1816:
An Era in My Existence
: Leigh Hunt, a Crash Course, & taking
possession with Chapman’s Homer
- November to December 1816: Busy & Important Months: An Expanding World yet Cloying,
Aspirational Poetry
- April 1817: Keats & Sovereign Shakespeare
- 24 April 1817: Toward Endymion, the Temple of Fame, & Why I
Should be a Poet
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 5 January 1818: Charles Wells & the Not-to-be Interrupted Wordsworth
- 20 February 1818: Pall Mall Pictures & Delicious, Diligent Indolence
- 6 March 1818: Endymion: A Trial of Perseverance; or, Mistakes
are Opportunities for Learning; To Teignmouth; the Keats/Hunt Relationship
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 23 June 1818: Good-bye to George & Looking North
- 1 July 1818: Robert Burns, Dirty Bacon, & the Irish Duchess of Dunghill
- 7-8 August 1818: What Keats takes from the Northern Tour
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- 24 October 1818: Romantic Encounters, Sublime Solitude, & Passion for the Beautiful;
Keats’s Predicted Greatness
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- 7 December 1818: Tom’s Burial, The Vice of Lending, & the Imperative to Work, Read,
Write
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 14 March 1819: A Medical Future or Great Poetry? A Pivotal Keatsian Moment
- 25 March 1819: Straining at Particles: A Temperament of Disinterestedness
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- 3 May 1819: The Odes: Mastery & Maturation via Controlled Intensity & Capable
Form
- 12 May 1819: Viewless Wings & the Complex Play of Consciousness & Imagination: Ode to a Nightingale
- 31 May 1819: Controlled Intensity & Timeless Drama: Ode on a
Grecian Urn
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- 20 December 1819: Without the Poetry of 1819 . . .
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- January 1820: George Comes, George Goes; Hope despite
T Wang-Dillo-Dee
; Urn
Published
- 3 February 1820: Consumption:
That Drop of Blood
; I Wish I had a little
Hope
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 15 November 1820: Rome:
Oh, God! God! God!
—An Awkward Bow to Life Having Past
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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(1798–1879): wife of Keats’s brother,
George (they marry 28 March 1818); Keats very fond of her, and admired her modesty
and
intelligence; Keats writes completely openly to her in some important journal letters
co-addressed to George, especially after the couple immigrates to America in June
1818.
- Keats writes a funny and witty letter to
- Keats’s long journal letter to, October 1818
- leaves for America via Liverpool
- 20 January 1817: Dinner with Horace Smith, Expanding Connections, & Toward the 1817
Collection
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- Early October 1817: Haydon’s Influence & the Problem of Literary Men
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 23 June 1818: Good-bye to George & Looking North
- 1 July 1818: Robert Burns, Dirty Bacon, & the Irish Duchess of Dunghill
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- 24 October 1818: Romantic Encounters, Sublime Solitude, & Passion for the Beautiful;
Keats’s Predicted Greatness
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 14 March 1819: A Medical Future or Great Poetry? A Pivotal Keatsian Moment
- 25 March 1819: Straining at Particles: A Temperament of Disinterestedness
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- 3 May 1819: The Odes: Mastery & Maturation via Controlled Intensity & Capable
Form
- 12 May 1819: Viewless Wings & the Complex Play of Consciousness & Imagination: Ode to a Nightingale
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- January 1820: George Comes, George Goes; Hope despite
T Wang-Dillo-Dee
; Urn
Published
- 15 November 1820: Rome:
Oh, God! God! God!
—An Awkward Bow to Life Having Past
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
(?1773–1804): Keats’s father [sometimes spelled
Keates
]; works the Swan and Hoop inn and livery stables after meeting Keats’s mother
there; her parents (John and Alice Jennings) own the Swan and Hoop; not long after
the
marriage and after he had been head ostler, he begins to manage the business; known
to be
sensible, energetic, and respectful; dies in late-night riding accident—the cause
unclear.
(1799–1818): Keats’s youngest brother; like Keats,
educated at Clarke’s school; tall and thin, considered gentle with good humour; longstanding
heath issues; as an adult, lived with Keats on a few occasions; temporarily works
for Abbey;
much loved by Keats, with great mutual understanding of each other; Keats nurses Tom
to his
death from tuberculosis.
- early signs of consumption and Keats’s worries about
- early signs of consumption
- growing increasingly ill with consumption
- his bad health influencing Keats
- his bad health influencing Keats
- his burial
- his burial
- his death and association with Fanny Brawne
- ill with consumption, Keats joins at Teignmouth
- ill with consumption, Keats joins at Teignmouth
- ill with consumption, Keats with at Teignmouth
- increasingly weakening from consumption
- is with Keats in Canterbury
- Keats comes back to after his northern expedition
- Keats drained caring for
- Keats in his consumptive stage looks like
- Keats takes to a doctor, ill with consumption
- Keats taking care of as the end nears
- Keats taking care of as the end nears
- Keats writes about his last days to the George Keatses
- Ode to a Nightingale as an image of consumption
- signs of consumption
- the death of
- the family estate in light of his death
- the period Keats cares for the same as Severn for Keats
- who is ill, and Keats leaves behind for his northern expedition
- worsening health of
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- December 1802: Solidly Middle Class & Dispelling the Myth of Keats
- 1803-1811: Clarke’s Academy in Enfield, Keats’s Education, & the Headmaster’s Son
- 27 June 1804: Keats’s Mother Hastily Remarries; Consumption: the Family Complaint
- 20 March 1810: His Mother Dies, & What Death Means for Young Keats
- 1810 & Later: Richard Abbey, Keats’s Guardian & Trustee
- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- November to December 1816: Busy & Important Months: An Expanding World yet Cloying,
Aspirational Poetry
- 20 January 1817: Dinner with Horace Smith, Expanding Connections, & Toward the 1817
Collection
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 16 May 1817: Canterbury, Daily Work on Endymion,
Ultimate
Progression,
& Hunt’s Damning Influence
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 25 October 1817: Visit to James Rice & Some Key Questions
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 5 January 1818: Charles Wells & the Not-to-be Interrupted Wordsworth
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 20 February 1818: Pall Mall Pictures & Delicious, Diligent Indolence
- 6 March 1818: Endymion: A Trial of Perseverance; or, Mistakes
are Opportunities for Learning; To Teignmouth; the Keats/Hunt Relationship
- 6 March-4 May 1818: Floody, Muddy; Keats’s Announced Immaturity; & a Mansion of Many
Apartments
- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 26 June 1818:
Sad—sad—sad
: Lord Wordsworth’s Politics & Forms of Permanence
- 1 July 1818: Robert Burns, Dirty Bacon, & the Irish Duchess of Dunghill
- 11 July 1818: Burns’s Cottage & Heading North
- 2 August 1818: Mistiness: Ben Nevis & the Hope for Loud Muses
- 7-8 August 1818: What Keats takes from the Northern Tour
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- 22 October 1818: Walking With Hazlitt, Thinking Like Hazlitt, Not Playing Rackets
Like Hazlitt
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- 1 December 1818: Death, Love, & Poetry: Tom’s Death, Miss Brawne’s Style, & Too Goutty
for Verse
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- 7 December 1818: Tom’s Burial, The Vice of Lending, & the Imperative to Work, Read,
Write
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 18 January 1819: Chichester, Bedhampton, Haydon as Martyr, & The
Eve of St. Agnes
- 25 January 1819: A Gothic Church & Achievement in Waiting
- 24 February 1819: Indolence, Family Money, & Hopes for a Rousing Spring
- 25 March 1819: Straining at Particles: A Temperament of Disinterestedness
- 3 April 1819: Fanny Brawne, Complex Associations, & Poetry without Progress
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 1 May 1819: The Great Odes, Amulets Against Ennui, & the Mystery of Greatness
- 12 May 1819: Viewless Wings & the Complex Play of Consciousness & Imagination: Ode to a Nightingale
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 25 July 1819: Shanklin, Fanny Brawne, & A Brighter Word than Bright
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- 20 December 1819: Without the Poetry of 1819 . . .
- January 1820: George Comes, George Goes; Hope despite
T Wang-Dillo-Dee
; Urn
Published
- 3 February 1820: Consumption:
That Drop of Blood
; I Wish I had a little
Hope
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 13-16 September 1820: To Italy: Beyond Every Thing Horrible & a Sense of Darkness
- 21 October 1820:
This Kind of Suffering
; Arrival in Naples, Not in the World, &
An Intellect in Splints
- 15 November 1820: Rome:
Oh, God! God! God!
—An Awkward Bow to Life Having Past
- 9 December 1820:
Too Noble an Animal,
Despair in Every Shape,
& Thanks
Joe
: Dead Poet Talking
- 25 January 1821:
This Dreary Point
; A Man Governed by Imagination &
Feeling
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- 23 February 1821: The Death of a Poet:
Youth Grows Pale, and Spectre-thin, and Dies
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 17 August 1817: Keats’s
On the Sea
is Published; The
Champion
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 20 December 1817: Art Without Intensity: Keats sees Benjamin West’s
Death on the Pale
Horse
- 26 December 1817: Harlequin’s Vision & Philosophical Directions: Kean,
Shakespeare, & Wordsworth
- 12 January 1818: A Night on the Town: from John Bull to Richard III to Gradual Ripening
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- 22 October 1818: Walking With Hazlitt, Thinking Like Hazlitt, Not Playing Rackets
Like Hazlitt
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- 23 February 1821: The Death of a Poet:
Youth Grows Pale, and Spectre-thin, and Dies
- as central to Keats’s core subjects of suffering and the human condition
gradual ripening of the intellectual powers
mentioned in light of- Keats’s reading of
- On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
- relation to
Truth & Beauty
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technically William Wordsworth’s superior, since Wordsworth was stamp comptroller
for
Westmoreland; a very awkward and unintentionally humorous presence at Benjamin Robert
Haydon’s
so-called immortal dinner
(of Sunday, 28 Dec 1817), which Keats attends, along with
Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, and others; Haydon is anxious to show his very large canvas,
an
ambitious historical painting entitled Christ’s Entry into
Jerusalem: Keats, Lamb, and Wordsworth are painted into the scene as spectators.
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- La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
- as allusive allegory
- as an allegory of Keatsian poetic position
- as dark allegory of the poet’s quest
- the drama of
- enacts Negative Capability
- imagery of consumption
- Keats writes
- Keats writes
- Keats writes
- parallel with This living hand
- published
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 1 July 1818: Robert Burns, Dirty Bacon, & the Irish Duchess of Dunghill
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- 1 May 1819: The Great Odes, Amulets Against Ennui, & the Mystery of Greatness
- 12 May 1819: Viewless Wings & the Complex Play of Consciousness & Imagination: Ode to a Nightingale
- 31 May 1819: Controlled Intensity & Timeless Drama: Ode on a
Grecian Urn
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 11 October 1819: Otho, Fanny Brawne, & Bright Star
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1820
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witty, acute, eloquent; an acquaintance of Keats; close to some of Keats’s friends,
including
Leigh Hunt and Benjamin Robert Haydon; perhaps best known for his Tales From Shakespeare (1807), written with his sister, Mary Ann, whom he takes care
of despite a life-long mental illness; long, close friendship with William and Dorothy
Wordsworth; Keats meets Lamb at Haydon’s so-called immortal dinner,
28 December 1817,
and likely sees him in other circumstances; Lamb in a July 1820 review strongly commends
Keats’s 1820 volume. Very much a London man.
- at dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, Haydon, and others is tipsy
- like Keats, included in Haydon’s painting, Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- 3 March 1817: Keats’s First Collection, Poems, is Published
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 28 December 1817: Haydon & the Immortal Dinner
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 5 February 1818: Busy Times, Busy Thoughts
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- Lamia
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 9 June 1819: Abatement of Fame; or, Beg What You Can for Me; & No More Pet-Lambing
Verse
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 25 July 1819: Shanklin, Fanny Brawne, & A Brighter Word than Bright
- 25 July 1819: Shanklin, Fanny Brawne, & A Brighter Word than Bright
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1820
- Places mentioned
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 11 October 1819: Otho, Fanny Brawne, & Bright Star
- 20 December 1819: Without the Poetry of 1819 . . .
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 16 August 1820: Sinking with Shelley
- as one of the greatest collections published
- beginning to receive favorable attention
- Keats does not write a preface for, does not oversee the ordering or inclusion of
poems
- Keats has little hope for
- Keats looks over some proofs for
- Keats makes some corrections to before publication
- Taylor & Hessey about to publish
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as editor, reviewer, writer, literary critic, minor translator; biographer, novelist;
after
1820, son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott, of whom he writes a biography; contributor to
the Whig
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, in which he (with a measured conflation of wit and
venom)
anonymously (“Z”) pillories Leigh Hunt, founder of what he calls “the Cockney school
of
poetry,” and then Keats, as Hunt’s underling; later editor of Quarterly Review.
- as
Z
and his attack on Hunt
- attacks Hunt’s poetry and mentions Keats
- Christie duels in his defense
- damning but generally correct comments on Endymion
- hears about Keats’s medical training via Bailey
- involved in a duel Keats, Hunt, and the Cockney School
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 21 December 1817: Keats as Kean, Kean as Keats, Endymion as
Filler
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- May 1818: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Leigh Hunt Damned
& Keats as Infatuated Bardling: Z
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
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politician; Keats very disappointed that William Wordsworth is an active supporter
of Lord
Lowther, who, as the area’s largest landowner, controls the Tory side of parliamentary
representation for Westmorland: sad—sad—sad—
writes Keats 26 June 1818 about this
circumstance, even though at this time he is attempting to see Wordsworth during a
walking
expedition through Westmorland, heading north to Scotland.
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(history, philosophy, journalism), politician (Whig), professor, judge; admires Keats,
and in
July 1818 is upset by attacks on Keats’s Endymion (he
apparently writes to Keats’s publisher to express his admiration and asks about Keats’s
high designs
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via his brother, George, mid-1815; some over-estimated poetic aspirations; Keats enjoys
some
social events with Mathew and his female cousins; Mathew publishes an upbeat poem
to Keats in
October 1816; Keats writes an epistle to Mathew that appears in his first collection,
the 1817
Poems; conservative Mathew evolves some resentment over Keats’s poetic gifts (and
politics), and he reviews Keats’s first collection; as their friendships peters (by
late
1816), Keats moves into more a more serious and progressive cultural circle via Leigh
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historian, dramatist, professor, editor, translator ecclesiastic (Dean of St. Paul’s);
prolific contributor to the Quarterly Review; Keats sees
Milman’s verse drama Fazio (previously billed, unbeknownst to
Milman, as The Italian Wife) on opening night at Covent Garden,
5 February 1818—the play, Keats says, hung rather heavily me.
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and epic poet, particularly noteworthy for Paradise Lost; staunch republican
sympathies; Keats studies Milton very deeply, as noted by his detailed marginalia
in his copy
of Paradise Lost; though he decides that while Milton’s accomplishment is a “wonder,”
and that his imaginative scope is almost unapproachably grand, aspects of his style
may be to
artful (or just not natural enough) for him to pursue, though Keats’s unfinished Hyperion
projects are ways for Keats to come to terms with Milton’s poetic powers.
- an early influence on
- his head in someone else
- Keats looking for a style closer to that of
- Keats on guard against his style
- Keats on guard against Miltonic intonations in his Hyperion poetry
- Keats sees a lock of his hair and writes upon it
- Paradise Lost, Keats parses in detail for Hyperion
- Woodhouse compares Keats to
- December 1802: Solidly Middle Class & Dispelling the Myth of Keats
- 20 March 1810: His Mother Dies, & What Death Means for Young Keats
- 1811-1815: Medical Apprenticeship & Charles Cowden Clarke
- 19 December 1814: Keats’s Grandmother Buried; All Family Elders Gone; Money Troubles
Coming
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- November 1815: The Mathew Family
- 25 July 1816: Keats Passes Medical Exams
- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- 9 October 1816:
An Era in My Existence
: Leigh Hunt, a Crash Course, & taking
possession with Chapman’s Homer
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- 2 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Publication of On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
- 14/15 December 1816:
A Whoreson Night
& A Too-tippy I stood
tip-toe
- 30 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Early Poetic Strivings
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 20 December 1817: Art Without Intensity: Keats sees Benjamin West’s
Death on the Pale
Horse
- 28 December 1817: Haydon & the Immortal Dinner
- 31 December 1817: The Dimensions of Poetic Accomplishment for Keats; or, The
Anti-Wordsworthian Wordsworthian
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 6 March-4 May 1818: Floody, Muddy; Keats’s Announced Immaturity; & a Mansion of Many
Apartments
- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 1 July 1818: Robert Burns, Dirty Bacon, & the Irish Duchess of Dunghill
- 11 July 1818: Burns’s Cottage & Heading North
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 3 May 1819: The Odes: Mastery & Maturation via Controlled Intensity & Capable
Form
- 12 May 1819: Viewless Wings & the Complex Play of Consciousness & Imagination: Ode to a Nightingale
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 9 June 1819: Abatement of Fame; or, Beg What You Can for Me; & No More Pet-Lambing
Verse
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Dear MKP Reader….
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
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cousin of Mary Wordsworth (née Hutchinson), wife of William Wordsworth; in late 1817,
Benjamin
Robert Haydon arranges for Keats to meet Wordsworth via Monkhouse at Monkhouse’s residence;
Keats will have a few subsequent meetings with Wordsworth; a few later, Monkhouse
runs into
Keats and invites him to meet with Wordsworth again in June 1820, but health problems
warn him
off.
(1770–1851): barrister, member of Chancery bar,
writer on topics related to copyright, bankruptcy, the death penalty, human rights,
prevention
of cruelty to animals, Lord Bacon; good friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William
Wordsworth (to whom he is introduced by William Godwin; during a difficult period
Montagu’s
life, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy care for Montagu’s son); Montagu represents
Keats’s
acquaintance Percy Shelley in a custody case; on 16 February 1817, Montagu is present
at a
dinner with Shelley and his wife Mary, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, and Godwin, where
they
read Keats’s
On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer, of which Hunt has a copy—they apparently deem it
extraordinary.
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historian, composer; good friend of Lord Byron; contributor to and then editor of
The Edinburgh Review; during Keats lifetime, perhaps most famous
for his poem Lalla Rookh (1817) and gatherings of Irish
Melodies; Keats: I like that Moore
(3 May 1818) and does not admire
Moore (18
Feb 1819); Percy Shelley summons Moore (among other poets) as a mourner of Keats in
his elegy
on Keats, Adonais (1821).
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- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- 16 March 1816: Keats, Joseph Severn, Spenser, & Chivalric Infatuations
- 3 January 1818: Keats Calls on Wordsworth
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 22 October 1818: Walking With Hazlitt, Thinking Like Hazlitt, Not Playing Rackets
Like Hazlitt
- 24 October 1818: Romantic Encounters, Sublime Solitude, & Passion for the Beautiful;
Keats’s Predicted Greatness
- 29 March 1819: Joseph Severn’s Miniature of Keats; Art, & Loose Ends
- 11 April 1819: Two Miles &
a Thousand Things
: A Walking Talk by Coleridge
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- 23 February 1821: The Death of a Poet:
Youth Grows Pale, and Spectre-thin, and Dies
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
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and mathematician who gave mathematical descriptions and explanations of light, gravity,
and
planetary motion. Some Romantic thinkers debated the practice of reducing the understanding
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Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- Keats writes
- reflecting Keats’s achievement and major theme
- some Wordsworthian influence on
- sources for, including Elgin Marbles and the Townley and Sosibios vases
- teasing us out of thought
- timeless drama and controlled intensity
- written around and related to May 1819
- 1 or 2 March 1817: Keats’s On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- Early October 1817: Haydon’s Influence & the Problem of Literary Men
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 20 December 1817: Art Without Intensity: Keats sees Benjamin West’s
Death on the Pale
Horse
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 1 May 1819: The Great Odes, Amulets Against Ennui, & the Mystery of Greatness
- 3 May 1819: The Odes: Mastery & Maturation via Controlled Intensity & Capable
Form
- 12 May 1819: Viewless Wings & the Complex Play of Consciousness & Imagination: Ode to a Nightingale
- 31 May 1819: Controlled Intensity & Timeless Drama: Ode on a
Grecian Urn
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 14 June 1819: Strapped for Cash, Averse to Writing, Ability Summoned, & No Longer
a
Versifying Pet-Lamb
- 11 October 1819: Otho, Fanny Brawne, & Bright Star
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- January 1820: George Comes, George Goes; Hope despite
T Wang-Dillo-Dee
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- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1820
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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[1795–1851]): publishers, stationers, booksellers; on commission, publishers of Keats’s
first
collection, Poems, by John Keats, 1817; Charles has some
interest in writing poetry; as publishers, James covers more of the business end;
publisher of
others in Keats’s circle, including Leigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, Charles Lamb; after
his first
collection, Keats drops the Olliers (for Taylor & Hessey), in part because he does
not
want to pay for publication, and the Olliers complain that the volume did not sell—Keats
felt
they did not promote the collection enough; in truth, Poems is
a bit of a mess, even at the level of layout; the Olliers are within Hunt’s circle,
and Keats
does occasional socializing with them.
(Ollier brothers, Charles [1788–1859] and James
[1795–1851]): publishers, stationers, booksellers; on commission, publishers of Keats’s
first
collection, Poems, by John Keats, 1817; publisher of others in
Keats’s circle, including Leigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, Charles Lamb; as publishers,
James mainly
covers the business end; after his first collection, Keats drops the Olliers (for
Taylor &
Hessey), in part because he does not want to pay for publication, and the Olliers
complain
that the volume did not sell—Keats felt they did not promote it enough; in truth,
Poems is a bit of a mess, even at the level of layout.
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- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 25 July 1819: Shanklin, Fanny Brawne, & A Brighter Word than Bright
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 11 October 1819: Otho, Fanny Brawne, & Bright Star
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- 20 December 1819: Without the Poetry of 1819 . . .
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- January 1820: George Comes, George Goes; Hope despite
T Wang-Dillo-Dee
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Published
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1820
- Brown’s plot, Keats’s words
- Brown’s role it writing
- definite hopes for
- hopes for
- its hopes and limitations
- Keats harnessed to his
dog-cart
- Keats has high hopes for
- Keats still hanging on to the hope he can make some much-needed money from
- Keats writing with Brown
- not staged
- on the Isle of Wight Keats working on
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- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- the Hyperion stories as vague reworkings of
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self-educated; opinionated, observant; rises to a senior position in the East India
Company;
most famous for his satirical novels, Headlong Hall (1816),
Melincourt (1817), and Nightmare
Abbey (1818), which, propelled by conversation, intelligently mock political and
philosophical subjects and positions; Peacock’s most noteworthy poetry is Rhododaphne (1818); close friends with Percy Shelley; Keats meets
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- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- 14/15 December 1816:
A Whoreson Night
& A Too-tippy I stood
tip-toe
- 20 January 1817: Dinner with Horace Smith, Expanding Connections, & Toward the 1817
Collection
- 16 February 1817: The Examiner publishes Keats’s To Kosciusko
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 1 or 2 March 1817: Keats’s On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- 3 March 1817: Keats’s First Collection, Poems, is Published
- 13 July 1817: No Natural Proportion: Hunt Reviews Keats’s Poems
& the Vast Idea
- 17 August 1817: Keats’s
On the Sea
is Published; The
Champion
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- 21 December 1817: Keats as Kean, Kean as Keats, Endymion as
Filler
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- May 1818: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Leigh Hunt Damned
& Keats as Infatuated Bardling: Z
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 24 February 1819: Indolence, Family Money, & Hopes for a Rousing Spring
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 13-16 September 1820: To Italy: Beyond Every Thing Horrible & a Sense of Darkness
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- 16 March 1816: Keats, Joseph Severn, Spenser, & Chivalric Infatuations
- 25 July 1816: Keats Passes Medical Exams
- November to December 1816: Busy & Important Months: An Expanding World yet Cloying,
Aspirational Poetry
- 30 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Early Poetic Strivings
- 20 January 1817: Dinner with Horace Smith, Expanding Connections, & Toward the 1817
Collection
- 3 March 1817: Keats’s First Collection, Poems, is Published
- 14 April 1817: Endymion: A Test of Perseverance & the
Lurking Keatsian Question
- 16 May 1817: Canterbury, Daily Work on Endymion,
Ultimate
Progression,
& Hunt’s Damning Influence
- 13 July 1817: No Natural Proportion: Hunt Reviews Keats’s Poems
& the Vast Idea
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 5 January 1818: Charles Wells & the Not-to-be Interrupted Wordsworth
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
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- The Cap and Bells; Or, the Jealousies, Keats plans to work on
- complete listing
- Important and Useful Editions of Keats’s Poetry
- Endymion, 4,000 lines based on one bare
circumstance
- Endymion,
a feverish
attempt rather, than a deed accomplished
- Endymion, an indifferent poem but a necessary trial of
dedication and invention
- Endymion and the task ahead
- Endymion and what it represents for Keats
- Endymion as a allegory of Keats’s adolescent poetic
strivings
- Endymion, as a
Pioneer
poem, as slipshod
- Endymion, as a poem in light of Keats’s progress
- Endymion, as an act of will, not as an achievement
- Endymion, as an attempt to prove himself as a poet
- Endymion, as an exercise of perseverance
- Endymion, aspects of its faults
- Endymion at last behind him
- Endymion, attacked and defended
- Endymion, beginnings on the Isle of Wight
- Endymion, begins to circulate and be reviewed
- Endymion, condemned as Huntian
- Endymion, condemned for
its
drivelling idiocy
- Endymion, early stages of writing
- Endymion: imagination without being imaginative
- Endymion, its bare circumstances
- Endymion, its frailties
- Endymion, its Preface, Keats’s immaturity, its
deficiencies
- Endymion, its Preface representing Keats’s state
- Endymion, its shortcoming move Keats forward
- Endymion, its shortcomings
- Endymion, its weakness
- Endymion, Keats about to complete first draft of
- Endymion, Keats anxious to put behind him and sandy
foundations
- Endymion, Keats articulates its place in his poetic
development
- Endymion, Keats begins to recognize its indifferent
quality
- Endymion, Keats begins to see its limitations
- Endymion, Keats begins writing
- Endymion, Keats completes Book III
- Endymion, Keats completes Book III
- Endymion, Keats completes first draft of
- Endymion, Keats completing copying and proofs of
- Endymion, Keats
completing work on
- Endymion, Keats continues work on
- Endymion, Keats coping out the final book of
- Endymion, Keats does final copying of Book IV, its
immaturity
- Endymion, Keats encouraged to write a long poem
- Endymion, Keats is warned not to show to Hunt
- Endymion, Keats prepares Book II for publication
- Endymion, Keats revising
- Endymion, Keats’s assesses its importance
- Endymion, Keats’s growing low opinion of
- Endymion, largely lacklustre
- Endymion,
not much
merit as a whole
- Endymion, published, its qualities
- Endymion, the task of writing
- Endymion, under final revisions, its lacking powers,
wanting to get it behind him
- Endymion, what Keats comes to see about in revision
- Endymion, youthful art for art’s sake
- The Fall of Hyperion, Keats returns to the story of Hyperion
- the great odes, high points of Keats’s controlled intensity
- the great odes, the nature of their striking originality
- the great odes
- the great odes
- his first volume (March 1817) about to be published
- Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion in light of Milton’s influence
- Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, Keats giving up on the story
- Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, Keats’s difficulties with but achievement in
- Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion
- Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, Keats gives up on
- Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, overly Miltonic for Keats
- Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, steps forward for Keats but unfinishable
- Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, why Keats possible gives up on
- Hyperion, and the possibility that it is too Miltonic
- Hyperion, appearing in Keats’s last volume, not approved of by Keats
- Hyperion, as a lingering burden
- Hyperion, as a poem reflecting Keats’s poetic
progress
- Hyperion, as step forward
- Hyperion, Keats beginning to think about
- Hyperion, Keats gives up on
- Hyperion, Keats has trouble working on and representing
Keats’s poetic development
- Hyperion, Keats likely beginning
- Hyperion, Keats moving on a little with
- Hyperion, Keats returns to in a new form, The Fall of Hyperion
- Hyperion, Keats struggles with but its merits
- Hyperion, Keats will begin
- Hyperion, Miltonically-styled and slow work on
- Hyperion, published without Keats’s approval
- Hyperion, represents Keats’s advances but unfinishable
- Hyperion, sounding a beginning to Keats’s best
composition
- Hyperion, stalled
- Hyperion, style and idiom of
- Hyperion, will be published against Keats’s wishes
- Hyperion, will be published against Keats’s wishes
If by dull rhymes,
reflects Keats’s commitment to progressive poetry- The Jealousies, Keats writes with some gusto
- Lamia, as a poem designed for popularity
- Lamia, hopes for
- Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems
- Lamia, its Keatsian subjects
- Lamia, its qualities, strengths, and weaknesses
- Lamia, Keats completes and his aims for
- Lamia, Keats completes, his hopes for
- Lamia, Keats wants published as soon as possible
- Lamia, Keats working on Part 1 on Isle of Wight
- Lamia, Keats’s hopes for and confusion about popularity
- Lamia, Woodhouse, impressed, probably the first to hear an almost fair copy of
- Otho the Great, a play Keats works on with Brown
- some of those published in The Examiner
- Spring Odes, Keats writes
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translator; friends with William Wordsworth, William Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Charles
Lamb, and William Hazlitt; most famous for The Confessions of an
English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar (1821/1822).
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known as the Nonpareil
and the prime Irish Lad,
and the first professional boxer
to retire undefeated; Keats sees Randall battle Ned Turner in Sussex, 5 December 1818
(Randall
knocks Turner out in the 34th round); the prize fight is just a few days after the
death of
Keats’s younger brother, Tom (Keats’s friends likely think the outing might be a good
distraction).
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novelist, playwright, lawyer; witty, outgoing; meets Keats via Leigh Hunt, becomes
a very
close and supportive friend of Keats, and seems to get the direction and level of
Keats’s
poetic aspirations; Keats writes some significant letters to Reynolds about poetry
and his
role as a poet; connects Keats with other important friends; Keats also writes a casual
verse
epistle to Reynolds in March 1818, containing some meandering ideas about art, the
imagination, and intensity—key subjects for Keats; Reynolds provides critical feedback
to
Keats during Keats’s poetic development; Keats friendly with Reynolds’ sister, Jane
and
Mariane; eventually bankrupt by 1838; on his tombstone: The Friend of Keats.
- and his family’s friendship with Keats
- defends Keats
- especially support of Keats after Tom’s death
- has Keats’s sonnet On the Sea
published in The Champion
- Keats meets via Hunt
- Keats stands in for and writes a review on Kean
- Keats subs in for and reviews for The Champion
- Keats writes a musing, playful letter to about indolence and idleness
- Keats writes important letter to about the poetical character
- Keats writes important letter to, about poetic depths
- Keats writes to about beginning two work on Endymion
- Keats writes to about how he cares about fine writing more than anything
- Keats writes to about unobtrusive poetry
- Keats writes to about working on Otho the Great
- Keats writes to in discussing Wordsworth
- Keats’s association with
- Keats’s first volume reviewed by
- Keats’s friendship with
- Keats’s good friend and literary influence
- reviews Keats Poems
- reviews Keats’s early poetry
- will introduce Keats to Wordsworth
- 15 October 1815: Keats’s Continues Medical Training; But a Poet He Will Be—he hopes
- 5 May 1816: To Solitude: Keats’s First Published Poem, Leigh
Hunt’s Liberal Spirit of Thinking, The Examiner, & the Possibilities of a Literary
Life
- 9 October 1816:
An Era in My Existence
: Leigh Hunt, a Crash Course, & taking
possession with Chapman’s Homer
- 19 October 1816: A Crucial Moment: Meeting Leigh Hunt & the London Scene
- 27 October 1816: The Intellectual Network & Haydon
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- November to December 1816: Busy & Important Months: An Expanding World yet Cloying,
Aspirational Poetry
- 2 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Publication of On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
- 11 December 1816: Meeting Percy Shelley: Joined but not Close
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 1 or 2 March 1817: Keats’s On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- 3 March 1817: Keats’s First Collection, Poems, is Published
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 17 August 1817: Keats’s
On the Sea
is Published; The
Champion
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- Early October 1817: Haydon’s Influence & the Problem of Literary Men
- 25 October 1817: Visit to James Rice & Some Key Questions
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 15 December 1817: Kean’s Remarkable Richard III: the
Development of a Crucial Idea
- 21 December 1817: Keats as Kean, Kean as Keats, Endymion as
Filler
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 26 December 1817: Harlequin’s Vision & Philosophical Directions: Kean,
Shakespeare, & Wordsworth
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 31 December 1817: The Dimensions of Poetic Accomplishment for Keats; or, The
Anti-Wordsworthian Wordsworthian
- January 1818: The Mermaid Tavern; Eagles rather than Owls; Toward Vastness & the
Unobtrusive Subject
- 12 January 1818: A Night on the Town: from John Bull to Richard III to Gradual Ripening
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 20 February 1818: Pall Mall Pictures & Delicious, Diligent Indolence
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- 6 March 1818: Endymion: A Trial of Perseverance; or, Mistakes
are Opportunities for Learning; To Teignmouth; the Keats/Hunt Relationship
- 6 March-4 May 1818: Floody, Muddy; Keats’s Announced Immaturity; & a Mansion of Many
Apartments
- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 26 June 1818:
Sad—sad—sad
: Lord Wordsworth’s Politics & Forms of Permanence
- 11 July 1818: Burns’s Cottage & Heading North
- 18 July 1818-August 1818:
Tramping in the Highlands
- 20/21 September 1818: Haunted by Tom, Plunging into Abstractions
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 3 April 1819: Fanny Brawne, Complex Associations, & Poetry without Progress
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
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(1792–1832): lawyer, well read; known in the Keats
circle as wise, unconditionally kind, noble, witty, sensible, and gentlemanly; poor
health;
Keats stays with him for about a month on the Isle of Wight; Keats meets via Reynolds;
one of
the financial supporters in getting Keats to Italy; becomes Fanny Keats’s lawyer.
- Keats depressed by his illness
- Keats describes his mental and physical condition to
- Keats enjoys his company
- Keats on the Isle of Wight with the ill
- Keats on the Isle of Wight with
- Keats plans to stay at the Isle of Wight with
- Keats writes to his witty friend
- Keats’s witty friend
- 25 October 1817: Visit to James Rice & Some Key Questions
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 3 January 1818: Keats Calls on Wordsworth
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- 24 November 1818: A Dying Brother’s Only Comfort & Hazlitt’s Influence
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 9 June 1819: Abatement of Fame; or, Beg What You Can for Me; & No More Pet-Lambing
Verse
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 25 July 1819: Shanklin, Fanny Brawne, & A Brighter Word than Bright
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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sometimes theatre reviewer; a casual friend to Keats and some in Keats’s circle; Keats
apparently gets so drunk at a gathering at Richards’ on 14 December 1816 that he is
useless
the next day (a whoreson
night, he calls it—the weather or his state?); he also dines
with Richards occasionally through the next few years, up until early 1820; on 17
January
1820, Keats compares Richards to two of his other friends, with the suggestion that
Richards
is hard to fathom; Charles Richards, Thomas’ brother, is the printer of Keats’s 1817
collection, Poems, though result suggests some inexperience on
the part of Charles; the connection with the Richards brothers comes from the circumstance
of
both of them attending the same school as Keats at Enfield.
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London Magazine and earlier The Champion; publishes many important writers of the
era; often
contributor to his magazines; strong liberal sympathies with some idealist tendencies;
public
supporter of the reputation of Keats and his circle; Tom Keats gives copy book of
Keats’s
poetry to Scott in Paris, 1817; in February 1821 is wounded and then dies in a duel
over
literary matters peripherally related to a defence of Keats, after Scott’s constant
attacks on
the integrity of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, with mutual
abuse returned from Blackwood’s.
- editor of The Champion and mortally wounded in a duel
- editor of The Champion, killed in a duel
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 21 December 1817: Keats as Kean, Kean as Keats, Endymion as
Filler
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 16 February 1821: Another Death Brewing: The Scott-Christie Duel & Keats’s Greatness
(1771–1832): Scottish poet and novelist; also editor,
literary critic, biographer, historian, though originally trained as a lawyer; perhaps
the
most popular and influential writer of Keats’s era; especially famous for The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), The Lady of the Lake (1810—all ballad
epics), and the Waverly
novels; extraordinary early success is levelled by financial
stress beginning in 1813 and increasing by 1825-26, when Scott is forced to confront
bankruptcy; prolific output continues, but mainly to pay off creditors; Keats assesses
Scott
as two of the three literary kings in our Time
: the poet Scott, the novelist Scott, and
Lord Byron (letters, ?29 Dec 1818).
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mainly a subject painter; attended Royal Academy; initially a friend of Keats, believer
in
Keats’s genius and in promoting it; introduces some art to Keats; paints famous miniature
of
Keats (exhibited May 1818); as a last-moment decision, he accompanies Keats to Rome
and
closely nurses Keats through his final, agonizing months (and details it), which is
a defining
feature of Severn’s reputation—this earns Severn clear intimacy with Keats; some suggestion
that Severn was keen to accompany Keats to Italy because of an illegitimate child;
has some
early success as a painter in Rome; later British Consul in Rome; buried beside Keats
in Rome
in matching graves; profited by (and culturally nurtured) his association with Keats.
- a miniature of Keats painted by
- accompanies Keats to Italy
- as friend to Keats
- attaches himself to Keats’s rising status
- attempts to describe Keats’s
nature
- early painting of Keats
- his history and place with Keats
- in Rome with Keats
- Keats is accompanied by on the trip to Italy
- Keats meets and his influence
- Keats visits the British Museum with
- reporting the gruesome details of Keats’s suffering
- reports on Keats’s agonizing state
- reports that Keats’s appearance is shocking
- stressed terrible by caring for Keats in Rome
- stressed, helpless, watches over Keats’s death
- traumatized by watching over Keats’s death
- wants Keats to continue the Hyperion poem
- 16 March 1816: Keats, Joseph Severn, Spenser, & Chivalric Infatuations
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 3 January 1818: Keats Calls on Wordsworth
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 29 March 1819: Joseph Severn’s Miniature of Keats; Art, & Loose Ends
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 13-16 September 1820: To Italy: Beyond Every Thing Horrible & a Sense of Darkness
- 21 October 1820:
This Kind of Suffering
; Arrival in Naples, Not in the World, &
An Intellect in Splints
- 9 December 1820:
Too Noble an Animal,
Despair in Every Shape,
& Thanks
Joe
: Dead Poet Talking
- 25 January 1821:
This Dreary Point
; A Man Governed by Imagination &
Feeling
- 23 February 1821: The Death of a Poet:
Youth Grows Pale, and Spectre-thin, and Dies
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Pictures/Picturing, Images/Imagining: Representing & Reproducing Junkets
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Shakespeare’s reputation very high in the Romantic era as a creative, poetic genius,
an
unparalleled seer-into nature and human nature; Keats deliberately studies Shakespeare
until
he feels he understands Shakespeare to his depths; Keats attempts to emulate aspects
of
Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic powers, and in particular the poet’s imaginative
absorption
into the subject.
- a line from King Lear vaguely inspires an early poem
- deeply intense, what Keats wants to emulate
- follows Hazlitt’s feelings about, that Shakespeare is all we need
- his importance for Keats
- his importance for Keats
- his qualities and importance for Keats
- how Hazlitt’s ideas about shape Keats’s poetics
- Keats feels he understands his depths
- Keats mentions in his letters
- Keats reading King Lear, its importance and meaning
- Keats reads and his importance
- Keats studies and is inspired by
- Keats’s study of
- Richard III, Keats sees and reviews and its relation to his poetics
- the idea of his genius via Hazlitt
- the importance of King Lear for Keats
- which plays Keats seems to know best
- December 1802: Solidly Middle Class & Dispelling the Myth of Keats
- 20 March 1810: His Mother Dies, & What Death Means for Young Keats
- 1811-1815: Medical Apprenticeship & Charles Cowden Clarke
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- November 1815: The Mathew Family
- 25 July 1816: Keats Passes Medical Exams
- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- 9 October 1816:
An Era in My Existence
: Leigh Hunt, a Crash Course, & taking
possession with Chapman’s Homer
- 2 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Publication of On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
- 14/15 December 1816:
A Whoreson Night
& A Too-tippy I stood
tip-toe
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- April 1817: Keats & Sovereign Shakespeare
- 14 April 1817: Endymion: A Test of Perseverance & the
Lurking Keatsian Question
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 16 May 1817: Canterbury, Daily Work on Endymion,
Ultimate
Progression,
& Hunt’s Damning Influence
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 15 December 1817: Kean’s Remarkable Richard III: the
Development of a Crucial Idea
- 20 December 1817: Art Without Intensity: Keats sees Benjamin West’s
Death on the Pale
Horse
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 26 December 1817: Harlequin’s Vision & Philosophical Directions: Kean,
Shakespeare, & Wordsworth
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 31 December 1817: The Dimensions of Poetic Accomplishment for Keats; or, The
Anti-Wordsworthian Wordsworthian
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- January 1818: The Mermaid Tavern; Eagles rather than Owls; Toward Vastness & the
Unobtrusive Subject
- 12 January 1818: A Night on the Town: from John Bull to Richard III to Gradual Ripening
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 1 July 1818: Robert Burns, Dirty Bacon, & the Irish Duchess of Dunghill
- 11 July 1818: Burns’s Cottage & Heading North
- 7-8 August 1818: What Keats takes from the Northern Tour
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 1 March 1819: Indolence Once More:
Nothing—Nothing—Nothing
- 29 March 1819: Joseph Severn’s Miniature of Keats; Art, & Loose Ends
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 3 May 1819: The Odes: Mastery & Maturation via Controlled Intensity & Capable
Form
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 25 July 1819: Shanklin, Fanny Brawne, & A Brighter Word than Bright
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 11 October 1819: Otho, Fanny Brawne, & Bright Star
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 6 May 1820: Keats’s Accumulated Anxieties & the Too Great Excitement of Poetry
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 13-16 September 1820: To Italy: Beyond Every Thing Horrible & a Sense of Darkness
- 23 February 1821: The Death of a Poet:
Youth Grows Pale, and Spectre-thin, and Dies
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Dear MKP Reader….
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
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Frankenstein, 1818), editor, biographer; intellectual, generally private; daughter
of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft; marries Percy Shelley; Keats meets on a
few
occasions.
(1792–1822): poet; unrelenting radical and
reformist enthusiasms, anti-authoritarian, dedicated pursuit of idealised, visionary
truths
and social justice; eccentric, intellectually precocious, generous, sometimes erratic;
marries
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (author of Frankenstein, editor of
Shelley’s poetry after his death), William Godwin’s daughter; both Percy and Mary
acquainted
with Keats via Leigh Hunt, and they do some socializing with Keats; Percy is more
enthused by
Keats than Keats with him; Shelley invites Keats to Italy to stay with him when Keats
is
ill—Keats declines; implicit competition and pairing with Keats; writes brilliant
elegy to
Keats, Adonais; drowns in a sailing accident, aged 29, with Keats’s final collection
stuffed into his pocket; buried not too far from Keats in Rome.
- differences between Keats and Shelley
- drowns, with a copy of Keats’s final collection in his pocket
- his death and copy of Keats’s last collection
- implicit competition with Keats over Hunt’s sympathies
- Keats capable of great things, according to
- Keats dines with at Smith’s residence
- Keats is invited to Italy by
- Keats meets
- Keats socializes with
- Keats visits and the his relationship with Shelley
- Keats’s consumptive state is heard about by
- loses his children in custody case
- will invite ill Keats to Italy
- writes a poem, Adonais, about the death of Keats
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- 5 May 1816: To Solitude: Keats’s First Published Poem, Leigh
Hunt’s Liberal Spirit of Thinking, The Examiner, & the Possibilities of a Literary
Life
- 19 October 1816: A Crucial Moment: Meeting Leigh Hunt & the London Scene
- 27 October 1816: The Intellectual Network & Haydon
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- November to December 1816: Busy & Important Months: An Expanding World yet Cloying,
Aspirational Poetry
- 2 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Publication of On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
- 11 December 1816: Meeting Percy Shelley: Joined but not Close
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- 20 January 1817: Dinner with Horace Smith, Expanding Connections, & Toward the 1817
Collection
- 16 February 1817: The Examiner publishes Keats’s To Kosciusko
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 3 March 1817: Keats’s First Collection, Poems, is Published
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- January 1818: The Mermaid Tavern; Eagles rather than Owls; Toward Vastness & the
Unobtrusive Subject
- 5 February 1818: Busy Times, Busy Thoughts
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- 2 August 1818: Mistiness: Ben Nevis & the Hope for Loud Muses
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 16 August 1820: Sinking with Shelley
- 15 November 1820: Rome:
Oh, God! God! God!
—An Awkward Bow to Life Having Past
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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as a journal and newspaper contributor, but a very minor poet, writer of historical
novels and
parody; known to Percy Shelley as generous.
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popular, but generally considered unimaginative and unintense as a poet; Poet Laureate
from
1813 until his death; strong early connections to Wordsworth and Coleridge, as well
as to the
Quarterly Review; because, over time, his early radical
sympathies are perceived to be compromised, by some he is lampooned for his turn to
conservatism (notably by Lord Byron and Thomas Love Peacock; also disliked by William
Hazlitt); Keats did not admire him.
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ages, most famously of the masterful and allusive The Faerie Queen, a long epic romance
embedded with allegorical intent that brushes up against politics, morality, and religion;
innovative stylist (the Spenserian stanza, in particular); highly influential in guiding
Keats’s very early poetical aspirations, though Spencer is never fully left behind
in Keats’s
poetic progress, ranging from the level of diction to Keats’s attraction to romance.
- an early Keats influence
- early Keats likes his poetry
- one of Keats’s early poetic influence
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- 1811-1815: Medical Apprenticeship & Charles Cowden Clarke
- August 1814: Keats Visits the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
- 2-4 February 1815: Leigh Hunt Sentenced & Imprisoned: A Hero for Keats
- October 1815: Keats’s Lodging as a Medical Student; Keats’s Interests in being a Poet
- November 1815: The Mathew Family
- 16 March 1816: Keats, Joseph Severn, Spenser, & Chivalric Infatuations
- 25 July 1816: Keats Passes Medical Exams
- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- 2 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Publication of On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
- 30 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Early Poetic Strivings
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 31 December 1817: The Dimensions of Poetic Accomplishment for Keats; or, The
Anti-Wordsworthian Wordsworthian
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 1 July 1818: Robert Burns, Dirty Bacon, & the Irish Duchess of Dunghill
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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(1781–1864): scholarly, progressive publisher and
bookseller; editor, minor writer, pyramidologist; half of Keats’s publisher, Taylor
&
Hessey; Keats meets through Reynolds; extremely generous with Keats; very loyal to
and
supportive of Keats and his poetry; helpful biographical knowledge about Keats; along
with
Hessey, he more or less sponsors Keats’s later publishing; Keats in his will wants,
somehow, Taylor to be repaid for his friendship and generosity.
- accompanies Keats to Gravesend
- believes in Keats’s genius
- Brown writes to about Keats’s desire to be remembered
- Keats assigns copyright to for his three books
- Keats drops by the offices of
- Keats stays with in London
- Keats writes to about direction after Endymion
- Keats writes to and his help with Endymion
- Keats’s last collection (1820) is announced by publishers
- pay Keats for copyrights for his books
- Reynolds writes to about Keats’s poetical ideas
- 15 October 1815: Keats’s Continues Medical Training; But a Poet He Will Be—he hopes
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- March 1817: Hunt & Haydon as Keats’s Mentors; Toward Endymion
- 3 March 1817: Keats’s First Collection, Poems, is Published
- 14 April 1817: Endymion: A Test of Perseverance & the
Lurking Keatsian Question
- 24 April 1817: Toward Endymion, the Temple of Fame, & Why I
Should be a Poet
- May 1817: Bo-Peep, Isabella Jones, & Endymion as a
Coming-of-Age Poem
- 16 May 1817: Canterbury, Daily Work on Endymion,
Ultimate
Progression,
& Hunt’s Damning Influence
- 13 July 1817: No Natural Proportion: Hunt Reviews Keats’s Poems
& the Vast Idea
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- 21 November 1817: The Reynolds’ Residence, An Expanding Circle, & Not All Experiments
Work
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 3 January 1818: Keats Calls on Wordsworth
- 12 January 1818: A Night on the Town: from John Bull to Richard III to Gradual Ripening
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- 6 March 1818: Endymion: A Trial of Perseverance; or, Mistakes
are Opportunities for Learning; To Teignmouth; the Keats/Hunt Relationship
- 6 March-4 May 1818: Floody, Muddy; Keats’s Announced Immaturity; & a Mansion of Many
Apartments
- April 1818: Endymion Published & Post-Endymion Keats; Pursuit of Beauty & Knowledge—and a Walking Tour
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 2 February 1819: “The Eve of St. Agnes”: Evocative without Affectation
- 24 February 1819: Indolence, Family Money, & Hopes for a Rousing Spring
- 3 April 1819: Fanny Brawne, Complex Associations, & Poetry without Progress
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- 20 December 1819: Without the Poetry of 1819 . . .
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 12 August 1820: Keats:
Excessively Nervous
& Cheating the Consumption
- 16 August 1820: Sinking with Shelley
- 13-16 September 1820: To Italy: Beyond Every Thing Horrible & a Sense of Darkness
- 21 October 1820:
This Kind of Suffering
; Arrival in Naples, Not in the World, &
An Intellect in Splints
- 25 January 1821:
This Dreary Point
; A Man Governed by Imagination &
Feeling
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
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Church Row, Hampstead. Keats on occasion dines and goes to some parties there; Keats
and Brown
at least once reciprocate. Mrs. Davenport kindly helps to take care of Tom, November
1818. Mr.
Burrage Davenport (or, at times, incorrectly, “Burridge” or “Benjamin”, 1778-1863)
is a
well-to-do merchant banker in London. A gift copy of Keats’s last collection (1920)
given to
the Davenports contains Keats’s angry comment about the book’s advertisement written
by the
publisher, that wrongly claims that his Hyperion poem in the collection is unfinished
because
Keats was upset about reviews.
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- and Tintern Abbey
- as Keats’s final masterwork
- controlled intensity in
- the end result of both emulating and resisting Wordsworth
- its context: better than Spring
- its qualities and achievement
- Keats writes
- Keats writes
- partially anticipated in Isabella
- set off by Winchester’s ambiance
- set off by Winchester’s ambiance
- 9 October 1816:
An Era in My Existence
: Leigh Hunt, a Crash Course, & taking
possession with Chapman’s Homer
- 20 January 1817: Dinner with Horace Smith, Expanding Connections, & Toward the 1817
Collection
- 26 December 1817: Harlequin’s Vision & Philosophical Directions: Kean,
Shakespeare, & Wordsworth
- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- 3 May 1819: The Odes: Mastery & Maturation via Controlled Intensity & Capable
Form
- 1 July 1819: To Wight to Write: In Shanklin: Harnessed to a Dog-Cart & Entrammelled
by
Fanny Brawne
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- 11 October 1819: Otho, Fanny Brawne, & Bright Star
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
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Welsh champion, known as the pugilistic Prince of Wales
; he spent a few months in jail
for killing a man in the ring in 1816; Keats sees him defeated by Jack Randal, 5 December
1818.
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(70-19 BCE): classical Roman poet, most famous for The Aeneid; Keats, as a teen-aged student, and under the general
guidance of his headmaster’s son at Enfield (Charles Cowden Clarke), takes up the
challenge to
translate The Aeneid, and confident and smart enough to suggest
flaws in the poem’s narrative structure; Keats no doubts gets some first sense of
epic
grandeur (and passion for poetry’s scope and power) by undertaking the translation;
Keats is
utterly conversant with Virgil, as demonstrated in various quotes from him thrown
into his
letters, as well as occasional allusions.
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(1694–1778): French dramatist, poet, philosopher, novelist,
historian; best known for his satirical novel Candide and his
free-thinking, humanistically-styled sense of virtues, tempered by skepticism; Keats
is
familiar with Voltaire, reinforced, perhaps, by his friend, the critic William Hazlitt;
Keats
casually quotes from and refers to Voltaire in passing on a few occasions, and we
know he is
reading Voltaire’s Le Siècle de Louis XIV in early 1819.
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]: fairly prolific
poet of the second rank, with some popularity and critical approval; later an essayist,
again
of minor note; great admirer of Keats; Webbe writes a glowing, over-poeticized sonnet
(To John Keats, on his First Poems) that celebrates Keats’s earliest
collection and its connection with Spencer, who he deems Keats’s sire; Webbe is forever connected with Keats as poets of the Cockney school under the tutelage of Leigh Hunt; Keats knows Webbe via Hunt and
Hampstead gatherings; Keats gives a copy of his 1817 Poems to
Webbe; Webbe is perhaps most famous for, in a poem, placing Keats and Hunt alongside
Chaucer,
Spencer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, and Wordsworth, as if Hunt and Keats are their
poetic
equals: Z
(John Gibson Lockhart) abuses Webbe’s words (capitalizing HUNT, and
KEATS
) to begin a devastating assault on Hunt, published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, October 1817 (Webbe will also be nominated as
Corny Webb,
just as Keats is little Johnny
); Keats in a letter of 3 November
1817 says he has never read any thing so virulent,
and he anticipates a forthcoming
attack on himself.
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(1800–1879): solicitor; spirited friend of Keats;
sometimes dramatist and poet; friend, too, of Keats’s youngest brother, Tom, who schooled
with
Wells; Keats writes an early poem to Wells; Keats gives an inscribed copy of his first
collection the 1817 Poems, by John Keats, to Wells; Keats later
very upset with Wells when, in 1818, he looks at the fake letters that Wells, as a
joke, had
sent to Tom back in 1816; has some reputation with the Pre-Raphaelites.
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(1738–1820): prominent American painter, primarily of
historical topics (though many portraits); perhaps the first American painter to carefully
study Italian art in Italy; influential in England, France, as well as in the United
States
(leaving a legacy of painters); one of the founders of London’s Royal Academy; at
points he
benefits from the patronage of George III and William Beckford; crucially, Keats sees
one of
West’s more famous canvases, Death on a Pale Horse, in December
1817, which, in a letter of 21 (?27) December 1817, directly triggers some of Keats’s
most
important pronouncements: how truly excellent art must possess intensity,
and with it,
the power to evaporate
all “disagreeables” in having close relationship with Beauty
& Truth
(Keats emphasizes that West’s painting does not possess such
intensity
)—this line of thinking leads Keats, in the same letter, to a seminal
articulation in his poetic development: Negative Capability.
(1795–1816): smart, pleasant, lively, graceful;
the first wife of Keats’s acquaintance and fellow poet Percy Shelley, who is also
a member of
the Leigh Hunt circle; in 1811, Shelley (19) and Harriet (16) marry in Scotland (they
remarry
in London, March 1814); they spend little time together; she gives birth to a daughter
(Eliza
Ianthe) in June 1813, and a son (Charles Bysshe), in November 1814; Shelley subsequently
elopes with Mary Godwin (16), daughter of William Godwin, in July 1814 and a month
later he
writes a letter inviting Harriet to Switzerland to live as friends; Harriet commits
suicide
late November, drowning herself, aged 21, in a state of advanced pregnancy; Shelley
is not
likely the father; Shelley blames Harriet’s detestable
family for the tragedy; Shelley
is denied custody of his two children; Keats is aware of all of this, having some
contact with
Shelley and Mary during the public legal proceedings, which made the newspapers.
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conveyancer, legal advisor to Keats’s publisher, Taylor & Hessey; organizes Keats’s
copyright transfer to them before Keats is off to Italy; singularly important collector
of
Keatsiana; practical and detail oriented; extraordinarily generous with Keats, and
a close
friend to the end; absolutely sure of Keats’s poetic genius; Keats writes his famous
“poetical
Character” and “camelion poet” letter to Woodhouse, 27 October 1818; central in organizing
Keats’s trip to Italy; dies of tuberculosis.
- accompanies Keats to Gravesend
- first to hear an almost fair copy of Lamia, and is impressed
- first to use the term
Keatsiana
- has a higher assessment of Isabella than Keats
- has the insight that Keats’s poetry
must be studied to be appreciated
- Keats sees plenty of during short trip to London
- Keats sees plenty of during short trip to London
- Keats sees plenty of during short trip to London
- Keats sees plenty of during short trip to London
- Keats writes to about Isabella, not wanting it published
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad, Keats writes
- reports to Taylor about Keats’s ideas of the
Poetical Character
- revealing assessment of Keats’s character and potential by
- top thing in the world, next to fine doing
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 8 October 1818: Endymion Attacked, Poetics Predict Progress,
& Woodhouse’s Prediction of Greatness
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- 22 October 1818: Walking With Hazlitt, Thinking Like Hazlitt, Not Playing Rackets
Like Hazlitt
- 24 October 1818: Romantic Encounters, Sublime Solitude, & Passion for the Beautiful;
Keats’s Predicted Greatness
- 5 December 1818: A Magnificent Prize Fight, & Keats as the Brightest Ornament of the
Age
- 7 December 1818: Tom’s Burial, The Vice of Lending, & the Imperative to Work, Read,
Write
- 2 February 1819: “The Eve of St. Agnes”: Evocative without Affectation
- 25 March 1819: Straining at Particles: A Temperament of Disinterestedness
- 3 April 1819: Fanny Brawne, Complex Associations, & Poetry without Progress
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 14 August 1819: All I Live For: Looking Upon Fine Phrases as a Lover; Otho, Not So Great
- 11 September 1819:
Keatsiana
: Fine Air, Lamia Completed,
Downright Perplexities
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 September 1819: Quiet Power, an Odd Sort of Life, Independence via Hyperion, & Uncertainty
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 21 October 1820:
This Kind of Suffering
; Arrival in Naples, Not in the World, &
An Intellect in Splints
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Pictures/Picturing, Images/Imagining: Representing & Reproducing Junkets
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Wordsworth (married 4 October 1802); like William’s sister Dorothy, Mary at times
acts as
Wordsworth’s amanuensis; Keats meets Mary when she is with William in London in early
1815;
Keats (like others) have the sense that Dorothy and Mary (who both live with William)
are
overly protective of and reverent to William; in a letter 21 March 1818, Keats writes
that
William has returned to his Shell—with his beautiful wife and enchanting sister.
(1780–1850): the most significant contemporary
poet for Keats; Keats is deeply ambivalent about Wordsworth, based mainly on the older
poet’s
growing pretensions and conservative political affiliation; Keats meets Wordsworth
(initially
via Haydon) a few times late 1817 into early 1818; in contra-distinguishing himself
from
Wordsworth, Keats famously condemns the “wordsworthian or egotistic sublime” in poetry
(letter, 27 October 1818); Keats is nevertheless fully in awe of Wordsworth’s poetic
depths,
which in some of his mature poetry he attempts to emulate—in his own terms, he feels
Reverence
toward the older poet; Wordsworth is Poet Laureate after 1843 until his
death; forever paired with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- as a looming influence on Keats’s ideas
- comes through Hazlitt and Godwin to Keats
- deeper than Milton
- deeply intense poetry
- disappointment over due to canvassing for the Tories
- hints of a Wordsworthian direction in his poetry
- his attitude toward Keats
- his depth and thinking into the human heart
- his
egotism, vanity, and bigotry
- his
Genius
and poetic depths
- his importance for Keats, in particular Tintern
Abbey
- his reaction to hearing Keats read some of his poetry
- his significance for Keats based on the northern expedition
- how his landscape and sentiments impress Keats
Immortality Ode
- importance of his idea of
the philosophic mind
for Keats
- Intimations Ode, Keats draws from
- is sent some of Keats’s poetry by Haydon
- Keats admires half of
- Keats attempts to visit and his political affiliations
- Keats begins to read seriously
- Keats coming to terms with how Wordsworth explores key subjects
- Keats dines with
- Keats dines with
- Keats goes to the Lake District to see the area associated with
- Keats going north to see and what he represents
- Keats has dinner with
- Keats meets and his importance for Keats
- Keats meets and reads some of his poetry to
- Keats meets
- Keats observes he is protected by his wife and sister
- Keats often sees
- Keats owns Wordsworth’s poetry
- Keats says he wants no more of his kind of poetry
- Keats study of
- Keats thinks about Hazlitt’s take on
- Keats will be introduced to by Haydon
- Keats working toward a philosophical poetry
- Keats’s deep ambivalence for
- Keats’s understanding of via Hazlitt
- like Keats, included in Haydon’s painting, Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem
- Lucy poems connection with Keats’s This living hand
- Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- the complex dimensions of Keats’s regard for
- the most important contemporary influence on Keats
the philosophic mind
- two opposite and similar men
- what he represents for Keats
- words on Keats’s poetry from
- Wordsworthian sentiment in O
Solitude!
- Select Chronology: 1730-1815
- 31 October 1795: Keats is Born into a Growing, Successful Family
- Keats’s Family Home,
1797
- December 1802: Solidly Middle Class & Dispelling the Myth of Keats
- 20 March 1810: His Mother Dies, & What Death Means for Young Keats
- November 1815: The Mathew Family
- 25 July 1816: Keats Passes Medical Exams
- August-September 1816: Margate & Scarce Knowing His Poetic Intent
- 9 October 1816:
An Era in My Existence
: Leigh Hunt, a Crash Course, & taking
possession with Chapman’s Homer
- 19 October 1816: A Crucial Moment: Meeting Leigh Hunt & the London Scene
- 27 October 1816: The Intellectual Network & Haydon
- October 1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
- 3 November 1816: Benjamin Robert Haydon: His Life & his Eventual Suicide
- November to December 1816: Busy & Important Months: An Expanding World yet Cloying,
Aspirational Poetry
- 2 December 1816: Leigh Hunt & Publication of On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer
- 14/15 December 1816:
A Whoreson Night
& A Too-tippy I stood
tip-toe
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1816
- 20 January 1817: Dinner with Horace Smith, Expanding Connections, & Toward the 1817
Collection
- 16 February 1817: The Examiner publishes Keats’s To Kosciusko
- 16-23 April 1817: Endymion,
On the Sea,
& Eternal
Poetry: Picturing Young Keats on the Isle of Wight
- 13 July 1817: No Natural Proportion: Hunt Reviews Keats’s Poems
& the Vast Idea
- 3 September 1817: Benjamin Bailey & Oxford: Endymion’s
Doubtful Merit, Profitable Studies, & Correcting the Poison
- 2 October 1817: Shakespeare’s Birthplace & Importance
- 25 October 1817: Visit to James Rice & Some Key Questions
- 18 November 1817: Percy Shelley & Keats’s (non)Political Poetry
- 28 November 1817: Endymion’s Completion & the Truthful
Imagination: Advancing Poetics via an Advanced Philosophy
- 14 December 1817: Keats & the London Liberal Intelligentsia
- 15 December 1817: Kean’s Remarkable Richard III: the
Development of a Crucial Idea
- The third week of December 1817: Keats Meets Wordsworth
- 20 December 1817: Art Without Intensity: Keats sees Benjamin West’s
Death on the Pale
Horse
- 25 December 1817: Keats’s Network, Influences, & Phases of Development
- 26 December 1817: Harlequin’s Vision & Philosophical Directions: Kean,
Shakespeare, & Wordsworth
- 27 December 1817: Things Dovetail after a Disquisition: the Negative Capability Letter
- 28 December 1817: Haydon & the Immortal Dinner
- 31 December 1817: The Dimensions of Poetic Accomplishment for Keats; or, The
Anti-Wordsworthian Wordsworthian
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1817
- 3 January 1818: Keats Calls on Wordsworth
- 5 January 1818: Charles Wells & the Not-to-be Interrupted Wordsworth
- 12 January 1818: A Night on the Town: from John Bull to Richard III to Gradual Ripening
- 13/19 January 1818: The London Coffee Club & a Busy London Life
- 16 January 1818: Dinner with Reynolds & the Goals of Keats’s Progress
- 18 January 1818: Keats’s Triple-H: Hunt, Haydon, Hazlitt
- 21 January 1818: Milton’s Hair, Milton’s Immensity, Bickering Friends, Hunt’s Diminishing
Influence, & Leaving Childish Rhymes Behind
- 22 January 1818: Reading King Lear & Changing, Ripening
Intellectual Powers; Keats’s Reality Principle
- 27 January 1818: Hazlitt’s on the English Poets & Wordsworth’s Subjectivity; the Poems
of
January 1818
- 3 February 1818: Another Hazlitt Talk,
No More of Wordsworth or Hunt,
& Composting
a Head in a Garden-Pot
- 5 February 1818: Busy Times, Busy Thoughts
- 20 February 1818: Pall Mall Pictures & Delicious, Diligent Indolence
- 27 February 1818: Platonism, Axioms of Poetry, & Fine Excess; From Crawling to
Toddling
- 6 March-4 May 1818: Floody, Muddy; Keats’s Announced Immaturity; & a Mansion of Many
Apartments
- 24-25 March 1818: Nettles, Isabella, & Hunt’s Affectatious Title
- 5 May 1818: Good-bye Teignmouth, Hello Mansion of Many Apartments
- 28 May 1818: George Marries, Hunt Attacked, Keats Cringes, Hazlitt Influences
- 22 June 1818: Keats’s Northern Expedition Begins
- 23 June 1818: Good-bye to George & Looking North
- 26 June 1818:
Sad—sad—sad
: Lord Wordsworth’s Politics & Forms of Permanence
- 1 July 1818: Robert Burns, Dirty Bacon, & the Irish Duchess of Dunghill
- 11 July 1818: Burns’s Cottage & Heading North
- 18 July 1818-August 1818:
Tramping in the Highlands
- 2 August 1818: Mistiness: Ben Nevis & the Hope for Loud Muses
- 7-8 August 1818: What Keats takes from the Northern Tour
- 14 September 1818: An All-Nighter with Friends & the Drivelling Idiocy of
Endymion
- 14-31 October 1818: Caring for Tom, his Poetical Character, & Being Among the English
Poets
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1818
- 2-3 January 1819: Moving Forward: What is to be Done & How to Do it
- 10 January 1819: Haydon, Moulting, Stalled Hyperion, & a
Sequestered Sister
- 29 March 1819: Joseph Severn’s Miniature of Keats; Art, & Loose Ends
- 11 April 1819: Two Miles &
a Thousand Things
: A Walking Talk by Coleridge
- 21 April 1819: La Belle Dame sans Merci & the Negatively-Capable Poet
- 30 April 1819: From Unproductive Funk to Fame Debunked
- 1 May 1819: The Great Odes, Amulets Against Ennui, & the Mystery of Greatness
- 3 May 1819: The Odes: Mastery & Maturation via Controlled Intensity & Capable
Form
- 31 May 1819: Controlled Intensity & Timeless Drama: Ode on a
Grecian Urn
- May 1819: Poetic Progress Primed & Prepared, &
Ode on Melancholy
- 19 September 1819: Winchester: Chaste Weather, On Guard Against Milton, To Autumn at Ease with Itself, & the Unegotistical Sublime
- 21 October 1819: A Bright Star as Immortal Love; A Living Hand as Emotional Blackmail
- 5 November 1819: Hazlitt, Keats’s Poetic Development, & a Low-Spirited Muse
- Select Chronology & Keats’s Key Comments: 1819
- 25 March 1820: Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Christ’s Entry,
Anxiety, & the Desire to be
Remembered
- 23 June 1820: Keats Coming Full Circle: Under Hunt’s Care
- 26 June 1820: Greatest Things at a Bad Time: Keats’s 1820 Collection as Last Trial
- 21 October 1820:
This Kind of Suffering
; Arrival in Naples, Not in the World, &
An Intellect in Splints
- 15 November 1820: Rome:
Oh, God! God! God!
—An Awkward Bow to Life Having Past
- 25 January 1821:
This Dreary Point
; A Man Governed by Imagination &
Feeling
- 23 February 1821: The Death of a Poet:
Youth Grows Pale, and Spectre-thin, and Dies
- 26 February 1821:
Writ on Water
: Keats’s Burial, After-fame, & Indeed, Among the
English Poets
- Keats’s Poetic Development: Some Key Factors & Keats’s Greater Conversation
- Dear MKP Reader….
- Keats: A London Lad Thinking (and then Existing) Beyond London
- Mapping Keats’s Progress & the Holy Grail
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(May 1818): George Keats (Keats’s brother) marries
Georgiana Augusta Wylie (?1797-1879). Georgiana’s parents (her father was a military
man) have
two sons, Henry and Charles. Via George, Keats comes to know the family and to frequently
socialize with them; he is particularly fond of Mrs. Wylie. George and Georgiana emigrate
to
Kentucky for cheap property and opportunity; they are eventually very successful in
business
and in creating offspring—eight in total. Some of Keats’s most important letters are
written
to George and Georgiana after they move to Kentucky; Keats’s tone in these letters
marks his
familiarity and openness with Georgiana, as well as interest in her family of origin.
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