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on Keats in early manhood,24-5, and on his appearance,25Maurice, Rev. Frederick Denison, editor ofThe Athenæum,52Measure for Measure, words from, used inEndymion,201Mediæval Mythology, vitality of, to Keats,110Mediævalism of Keats,439-41Medwin, T., Letter to, from Fanny Brawne, on Keats and his passions,330n.,465& n.on Shelley’s views on the poems in theLamiavolume,482-3Meg Merrilees, Ballad of(Keats),279-80,386Melody in verse, and the Vowel sounds, Keats’s ideas on,147,209,401-2Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, poems (Wordsworth),387& n.‘Me rather all that bowery loneliness’ alcaics (Tennyson),38Mermaid Tavern, verses on,see‘Lines on the Mermaid Tavern’Metamorphoses(Ovid), in Sandys’ translation, source of Keats’s mythological knowledge,171,174n., influence of inEndymion,190,195,201,206Metre, decay of,100Metres employed by Keats,86; Keats’s revolutionary treatment of,207et sqq.Midsummer Night’s Dream,86; source of Oberon &c. in,87n.Milanese pictures, engravings of,325& n.“Milky Way” of poetry,Quarterly’sphrase on Keats’s work,528Mill, James, and Hunt,43Millais, Sir John Everett, the Italian Primitives and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,325; a Keats worshipper,538Milman, H. H.,263Milnes, Monckton (Lord Houghton,q.v.), Memoir of Keats by,520, sources,531et sqq., merit and timeliness, gaps and errors in, and reception of,336et sqq.Milton, John, and theFaithful Shepherdess,168Genius of, relative to that of Wordsworth, Keats on,266; Keats compared with, by Landor,537Hair of, Lines on, by Keats,257Poems of, Brown’s travelling book,272Influence of, on Keats, and Keats’s study of,195,262,386,399,428,429,430-6,545Model for English epic poetry,429Sprightly lines in,109n.Use in, of theHeroic couplet,101-2Sicilian pastoral elegy form,517’Minutes are flying,’seeOn Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh HuntMinstrel, The(Beattie),19Mitford, Mary Russell, friend of Haydon,62, his letter to her, on Keats’s death,521Mnemosyne, inHyperion,429,433et sqq.,passimMole river, in Keats’s poem,159Moneta, inHyperion,447& n.,450Montagu, Basil, on Keats’s poems,41Monitress, the, inHyperion,453-4Monkhouse, Cosmo,246Monthly Chronicle, The,53Monthly Review,354n.; on theLamiavolume,474Moods, Keats on, 265,269,270-1,344,348; his sufferings from,359et sqq.,passimMoon, the, Keats’s attitude to,123,166-7,189fine lines on, inEndymion,215-16Moore, Thomas,86,518Poems of, Hunt’s verdict on,44Lines on the Hunts in prison,43Popularity ofLalla Rookh,313Sums received for,82Prose works,see Epicurean, & Tom Cribb’s MemorialVerse-letter to, from Hunt,50-1Morgan MSS.,366n.,477n.Morning Chronicle, attitude of, toEndymion,311Morris, Harrison S., on Keats’s choice of epitaph,510n.Morris, William, anticipations of, by Keats,438-9True text ofLa Belle Dame, restored by,470Poems of, inspiration and model for,539on Keats’s poetry,470,539Moschus, his elegy on the death of Bion,517,518Mother Hubbard’s Tale(Spenser), Heroic couplet used in,96Mountain Scenery as Inspiration for a Poet, Keats’s rare phrase on,284Mull, Keats’s expedition to,291, and the first failure of his health,293Murray, A. S., on the inspiration of theOde to a Grecian Urn,416n.Murray, John, and Blackwood,302; and theQuarterly Review,27Muse of his Native Land, address to, inEndymion,197Musée Napoleon, The, classic prints in, Keats’s tracing from,416& n.‘My spirit is too weak,’seeOn Seeing the Elgin MarblesMythology, Greek and Mediæval, vitality of, to Keats,110Naiad, The(Reynolds),74Napoleon I.,416& n.; aggressions of, effect on the Lake poets,45Art collection of,416& n.Naples, Keats in quarantine at,496ill-effects of,498Narensky, opera (Brown),359Nature, attitude to, of Keats, and its influences as seen in his poems,21-2,79-80,114,122-3,189,215-16et alibi‘Nature, red in tooth and claw’ (Tennyson), Keats’s anticipation of,448-9Negative capability, Keats on,253-4Nelson, Admiral Lord,4Newcome, Colonel inThe Newcomes, and his son’s views on Keats,537Newmarch, ——, and Keats,32New Monthly Magazine, Colburn’s, review in, of theLamiavolume,473-4Newport, Isle of Wight, Reynolds’s County Court post at,533New Times, Lamb’s critique in, of theLamiavolume,471-2Newton, Sir Isaac, in Haydon’s picture,247,462New York Herald, 1889, Recollections of Fanny Brawne, by a cousin, published in,330n.New Zealand, Brown’s death in,531Nile, the, sonnets on, by Shelley, Keats, and Hunt,256Noctes Ambrosianæ(Wilson), onKeats’s poems (1828),527n.3Wordsworth,300Northampton, Countess of, death of, Scott’s grief at,525Northcote, James, on the ass in Haydon’s painting,461‘Not Aladdin Magian’ (Keats), referring to Fingal’s Cave,292-3Notes on Gilfillan’s Literary Portraits(De Quincey), outburst in, against Keats,528-9& n.Novello, Mary Victoria,seeClarke, Mrs Charles CowdenNovello, Vincent, musical parties of, Keats at,327,328‘Nymph of the Downward smile,’ sonnet (Keats), addressed to Miss Wylie, and included inPoems,89,270Nymphs, The(Hunt),138Oberon(Wieland), Sotheby’s translation of,86-7 &n.,309Modified Spenserian stanza in,445Oberon and Titania, Keats’s lines on, and possible sources,86,87&n.Ocean floor theme, inEndymion, in relation to Shakespeare and Shelley,189,239Oceanus (Hyperion), speech of,433-4Ode to Apollo(Keats),23Ode to Autumn(Keats),386; date of,370,421; form, perfections, and lines from,421-3Greek influence seen in,426Ode to Fanny(Keats), as a cry of the heart,334; date of,334,339; lines from, quoted,335-6Ode on a Grecian Urn(Keats),153,386,422, a masterpiece; inspiration, sources, subject, &c.,232,264,415,416&n.,417-18Date of,352,353Ode to Hope(Keats),23Ode on Intimations of Immortality(Wordsworth), Keats’s comment on,145-6,159n.Ode on Indolence(Keats),386; date of,352,353Echo from,356Greek influence seen in,414Keats’s pleasure in writing,415Lines on Visions in, probable source of,412n.Not included in theLamiavolume,470Ode to Maia(Keats), unfinished,265; Greek influence seen in,426; included in theLamiavolume,470Ode on Melancholy(Keats),386; date of,352,354,419Embryo ideas of,259n.Subject and splendours of,419-21Ode to a Nightingale(Keats),203,383,422Date of,352,353-4,418Echoes in,344,418Embryo ideas of,259n.Hippocrene passage in,542Keats’s genius at its height in,419Inspirations of,264-5Line in, anticipated,344Publication of,354Ode to Psyche(Keats),386; date,352,411,441Germ of lines in,276Sources, qualities, faults and beauties,411,412&n.,413-14Odes and Addresses by Eminent Hands(Hood and Reynolds),533Odes (Keats), inLamiavolume,470Odes, the six (Keats),308Dates of,411et sqq.,441Metre and form of,411-13,414-15Odes, The, of Keats(Downer), Urn illustrated in,416n.Odyssey(Chapman’s version), influence seen inEndymion,206Use in, of the Heroic couplet,99‘O fret not after knowledge—I have none,’ lines by Keats,260,424‘O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute,’ sonnet (Keats), date and subject of,257Old Plays(Dodsley), Dilke’s continuation of,142Ollier Brothers, publishers for Shelley, Keats and others,83,263; and the unsuccess ofPoems,131,133Ollier, Charles, sonnet by, onPoems,131Ollier, James, on the public attitude toPoems,133‘O Melancholy, linger here awhile,’ Invocation inIsabella, beauties of,392‘O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies’ (Tennyson), a Keats anticipation of,237On first looking into Chapman’s Homersonnet (Keats),38,40&n.,41,54Full text of,88Included inPoems,133Technical perfection of,87On the Grasshopper and Cricket, sonnet (Keats),55; included inPoems,91On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour, sonnet (Keats),90On Leigh Hunt’s Poem‘The Story of Rimini,’ sonnet (Keats),91On the Peace of Paris(1814), sonnet (Keats),23,44,91On[an engraved Gem of]Leander, sonnet (Keats),92&nn.1 & 2On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt, sonnet (Keats),57On Receiving a Curious Shell and a Copy of Verses[from some Ladies], stanza (Keats), metre of,86On the Sea, sonnet (Keats), written at Carisbrooke,135On seeing the Elgin Marbles, sonnet (Keats),66On sitting down to read King Lear once again, sonnet (Keats),257Opposites, A Song of(Keats) 263,389Optics and the Poet,400-1Orcagna, picture by, possibly inspiring Keats,446Orlando Innamorato(Boiardo),552‘O Solitude! if I with thee must dwell,’ sonnet (Keats),35&n.; included inPoems,90Othello(Shakespeare), Kean’s voice in, Keats on,243Otho the Great, a tragedy by Keats and Brown,357,359,364,421, an experiment,386,441Admiration for, at Rome,526First printed,537Plot, construction and poetry of,442-3Production of, difficulties on,370,372,381Ottava rima, used by Byron,390Ovid, Arethusa myth as told by,187Cosmology of,174&n.Echoes of, inEndymion,168,171,174&n.,185,187,201Metamorphosesof, in Sandys’ translation, value of, to Keats,171,174n.; influence seen inEndymion,190,195,201,206Oxford, Keats’s visit to,142,429; his own words on,143et sqq.Endymionpartly written at,143-4,147Oxford Herald, Endymionpraised in, by Bailey,270Oxford University Press, Delegates of, edition issued by, ofLa Belle Dame,469&n.Owen, Mrs F.M., Study by, onEndymion,544Pain, The, of Memory, a variant ofIn drear-nighted December, third stanza of,158n.Palgrave, F.T., admiration of, for the sonnetWoman, when I behold thee flippant, vain,89; place given by, toLamia,406

on Keats in early manhood,24-5, and on his appearance,25

on Keats in early manhood,24-5, and on his appearance,25

Maurice, Rev. Frederick Denison, editor ofThe Athenæum,52

Measure for Measure, words from, used inEndymion,201

Mediæval Mythology, vitality of, to Keats,110

Mediævalism of Keats,439-41

Medwin, T., Letter to, from Fanny Brawne, on Keats and his passions,330n.,465& n.

on Shelley’s views on the poems in theLamiavolume,482-3

on Shelley’s views on the poems in theLamiavolume,482-3

Meg Merrilees, Ballad of(Keats),279-80,386

Melody in verse, and the Vowel sounds, Keats’s ideas on,147,209,401-2

Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, poems (Wordsworth),387& n.

‘Me rather all that bowery loneliness’ alcaics (Tennyson),38

Mermaid Tavern, verses on,see‘Lines on the Mermaid Tavern’

Metamorphoses(Ovid), in Sandys’ translation, source of Keats’s mythological knowledge,171,174n., influence of inEndymion,190,195,201,206

Metre, decay of,100

Metres employed by Keats,86; Keats’s revolutionary treatment of,207et sqq.

Midsummer Night’s Dream,86; source of Oberon &c. in,87n.

Milanese pictures, engravings of,325& n.

“Milky Way” of poetry,Quarterly’sphrase on Keats’s work,528

Mill, James, and Hunt,43

Millais, Sir John Everett, the Italian Primitives and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,325; a Keats worshipper,538

Milman, H. H.,263

Milnes, Monckton (Lord Houghton,q.v.), Memoir of Keats by,520, sources,531et sqq., merit and timeliness, gaps and errors in, and reception of,336et sqq.

Milton, John, and theFaithful Shepherdess,168

Genius of, relative to that of Wordsworth, Keats on,266; Keats compared with, by Landor,537Hair of, Lines on, by Keats,257Poems of, Brown’s travelling book,272

Genius of, relative to that of Wordsworth, Keats on,266; Keats compared with, by Landor,537

Hair of, Lines on, by Keats,257

Poems of, Brown’s travelling book,272

Influence of, on Keats, and Keats’s study of,195,262,386,399,428,429,430-6,545Model for English epic poetry,429Sprightly lines in,109n.Use in, of the

Influence of, on Keats, and Keats’s study of,195,262,386,399,428,429,430-6,545

Model for English epic poetry,429

Sprightly lines in,109n.

Use in, of the

Heroic couplet,101-2Sicilian pastoral elegy form,517

Heroic couplet,101-2

Sicilian pastoral elegy form,517

’Minutes are flying,’seeOn Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt

Minstrel, The(Beattie),19

Mitford, Mary Russell, friend of Haydon,62, his letter to her, on Keats’s death,521

Mnemosyne, inHyperion,429,433et sqq.,passim

Mole river, in Keats’s poem,159

Moneta, inHyperion,447& n.,450

Montagu, Basil, on Keats’s poems,41

Monitress, the, inHyperion,453-4

Monkhouse, Cosmo,246

Monthly Chronicle, The,53

Monthly Review,354n.; on theLamiavolume,474

Moods, Keats on, 265,269,270-1,344,348; his sufferings from,359et sqq.,passim

Moon, the, Keats’s attitude to,123,166-7,189fine lines on, inEndymion,215-16

Moore, Thomas,86,518

Poems of, Hunt’s verdict on,44

Poems of, Hunt’s verdict on,44

Lines on the Hunts in prison,43Popularity ofLalla Rookh,313Sums received for,82

Lines on the Hunts in prison,43

Popularity ofLalla Rookh,313

Sums received for,82

Prose works,see Epicurean, & Tom Cribb’s MemorialVerse-letter to, from Hunt,50-1

Prose works,see Epicurean, & Tom Cribb’s Memorial

Verse-letter to, from Hunt,50-1

Morgan MSS.,366n.,477n.

Morning Chronicle, attitude of, toEndymion,311

Morris, Harrison S., on Keats’s choice of epitaph,510n.

Morris, William, anticipations of, by Keats,438-9

True text ofLa Belle Dame, restored by,470Poems of, inspiration and model for,539on Keats’s poetry,470,539

True text ofLa Belle Dame, restored by,470

Poems of, inspiration and model for,539

on Keats’s poetry,470,539

Moschus, his elegy on the death of Bion,517,518

Mother Hubbard’s Tale(Spenser), Heroic couplet used in,96

Mountain Scenery as Inspiration for a Poet, Keats’s rare phrase on,284

Mull, Keats’s expedition to,291, and the first failure of his health,293

Murray, A. S., on the inspiration of theOde to a Grecian Urn,416n.

Murray, John, and Blackwood,302; and theQuarterly Review,27

Muse of his Native Land, address to, inEndymion,197

Musée Napoleon, The, classic prints in, Keats’s tracing from,416& n.

‘My spirit is too weak,’seeOn Seeing the Elgin Marbles

Mythology, Greek and Mediæval, vitality of, to Keats,110

Naiad, The(Reynolds),74

Napoleon I.,416& n.; aggressions of, effect on the Lake poets,45

Art collection of,416& n.

Art collection of,416& n.

Naples, Keats in quarantine at,496ill-effects of,498

Narensky, opera (Brown),359

Nature, attitude to, of Keats, and its influences as seen in his poems,21-2,79-80,114,122-3,189,215-16et alibi

‘Nature, red in tooth and claw’ (Tennyson), Keats’s anticipation of,448-9

Negative capability, Keats on,253-4

Nelson, Admiral Lord,4

Newcome, Colonel inThe Newcomes, and his son’s views on Keats,537

Newmarch, ——, and Keats,32

New Monthly Magazine, Colburn’s, review in, of theLamiavolume,473-4

Newport, Isle of Wight, Reynolds’s County Court post at,533

New Times, Lamb’s critique in, of theLamiavolume,471-2

Newton, Sir Isaac, in Haydon’s picture,247,462

New York Herald, 1889, Recollections of Fanny Brawne, by a cousin, published in,330n.

New Zealand, Brown’s death in,531

Nile, the, sonnets on, by Shelley, Keats, and Hunt,256

Noctes Ambrosianæ(Wilson), on

Keats’s poems (1828),527n.3Wordsworth,300

Keats’s poems (1828),527n.3

Wordsworth,300

Northampton, Countess of, death of, Scott’s grief at,525

Northcote, James, on the ass in Haydon’s painting,461

‘Not Aladdin Magian’ (Keats), referring to Fingal’s Cave,292-3

Notes on Gilfillan’s Literary Portraits(De Quincey), outburst in, against Keats,528-9& n.

Novello, Mary Victoria,seeClarke, Mrs Charles Cowden

Novello, Vincent, musical parties of, Keats at,327,328

‘Nymph of the Downward smile,’ sonnet (Keats), addressed to Miss Wylie, and included inPoems,89,270

Nymphs, The(Hunt),138

Oberon(Wieland), Sotheby’s translation of,86-7 &n.,309

Modified Spenserian stanza in,445

Modified Spenserian stanza in,445

Oberon and Titania, Keats’s lines on, and possible sources,86,87&n.

Ocean floor theme, inEndymion, in relation to Shakespeare and Shelley,189,239

Oceanus (Hyperion), speech of,433-4

Ode to Apollo(Keats),23

Ode to Autumn(Keats),386; date of,370,421; form, perfections, and lines from,421-3

Greek influence seen in,426

Greek influence seen in,426

Ode to Fanny(Keats), as a cry of the heart,334; date of,334,339; lines from, quoted,335-6

Ode on a Grecian Urn(Keats),153,386,422, a masterpiece; inspiration, sources, subject, &c.,232,264,415,416&n.,417-18

Date of,352,353

Date of,352,353

Ode to Hope(Keats),23

Ode on Intimations of Immortality(Wordsworth), Keats’s comment on,145-6,159n.

Ode on Indolence(Keats),386; date of,352,353

Echo from,356Greek influence seen in,414Keats’s pleasure in writing,415Lines on Visions in, probable source of,412n.Not included in theLamiavolume,470

Echo from,356

Greek influence seen in,414

Keats’s pleasure in writing,415

Lines on Visions in, probable source of,412n.

Not included in theLamiavolume,470

Ode to Maia(Keats), unfinished,265; Greek influence seen in,426; included in theLamiavolume,470

Ode on Melancholy(Keats),386; date of,352,354,419

Embryo ideas of,259n.Subject and splendours of,419-21

Embryo ideas of,259n.

Subject and splendours of,419-21

Ode to a Nightingale(Keats),203,383,422

Date of,352,353-4,418Echoes in,344,418Embryo ideas of,259n.Hippocrene passage in,542Keats’s genius at its height in,419Inspirations of,264-5Line in, anticipated,344Publication of,354

Date of,352,353-4,418

Echoes in,344,418

Embryo ideas of,259n.

Hippocrene passage in,542

Keats’s genius at its height in,419

Inspirations of,264-5

Line in, anticipated,344

Publication of,354

Ode to Psyche(Keats),386; date,352,411,441

Germ of lines in,276Sources, qualities, faults and beauties,411,412&n.,413-14

Germ of lines in,276

Sources, qualities, faults and beauties,411,412&n.,413-14

Odes and Addresses by Eminent Hands(Hood and Reynolds),533

Odes (Keats), inLamiavolume,470

Odes, the six (Keats),308

Dates of,411et sqq.,441Metre and form of,411-13,414-15

Dates of,411et sqq.,441

Metre and form of,411-13,414-15

Odes, The, of Keats(Downer), Urn illustrated in,416n.

Odyssey(Chapman’s version), influence seen inEndymion,206

Use in, of the Heroic couplet,99

Use in, of the Heroic couplet,99

‘O fret not after knowledge—I have none,’ lines by Keats,260,424

‘O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute,’ sonnet (Keats), date and subject of,257

Old Plays(Dodsley), Dilke’s continuation of,142

Ollier Brothers, publishers for Shelley, Keats and others,83,263; and the unsuccess ofPoems,131,133

Ollier, Charles, sonnet by, onPoems,131

Ollier, James, on the public attitude toPoems,133

‘O Melancholy, linger here awhile,’ Invocation inIsabella, beauties of,392

‘O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies’ (Tennyson), a Keats anticipation of,237

On first looking into Chapman’s Homersonnet (Keats),38,40&n.,41,54

Full text of,88Included inPoems,133Technical perfection of,87

Full text of,88

Included inPoems,133

Technical perfection of,87

On the Grasshopper and Cricket, sonnet (Keats),55; included inPoems,91

On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour, sonnet (Keats),90

On Leigh Hunt’s Poem‘The Story of Rimini,’ sonnet (Keats),91

On the Peace of Paris(1814), sonnet (Keats),23,44,91

On[an engraved Gem of]Leander, sonnet (Keats),92&nn.1 & 2

On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt, sonnet (Keats),57

On Receiving a Curious Shell and a Copy of Verses[from some Ladies], stanza (Keats), metre of,86

On the Sea, sonnet (Keats), written at Carisbrooke,135

On seeing the Elgin Marbles, sonnet (Keats),66

On sitting down to read King Lear once again, sonnet (Keats),257

Opposites, A Song of(Keats) 263,389

Optics and the Poet,400-1

Orcagna, picture by, possibly inspiring Keats,446

Orlando Innamorato(Boiardo),552

‘O Solitude! if I with thee must dwell,’ sonnet (Keats),35&n.; included inPoems,90

Othello(Shakespeare), Kean’s voice in, Keats on,243

Otho the Great, a tragedy by Keats and Brown,357,359,364,421, an experiment,386,441

Admiration for, at Rome,526First printed,537Plot, construction and poetry of,442-3Production of, difficulties on,370,372,381

Admiration for, at Rome,526

First printed,537

Plot, construction and poetry of,442-3

Production of, difficulties on,370,372,381

Ottava rima, used by Byron,390

Ovid, Arethusa myth as told by,187

Cosmology of,174&n.Echoes of, inEndymion,168,171,174&n.,185,187,201Metamorphosesof, in Sandys’ translation, value of, to Keats,171,174n.; influence seen inEndymion,190,195,201,206

Cosmology of,174&n.

Echoes of, inEndymion,168,171,174&n.,185,187,201

Metamorphosesof, in Sandys’ translation, value of, to Keats,171,174n.; influence seen inEndymion,190,195,201,206

Oxford, Keats’s visit to,142,429; his own words on,143et sqq.

Endymionpartly written at,143-4,147

Endymionpartly written at,143-4,147

Oxford Herald, Endymionpraised in, by Bailey,270

Oxford University Press, Delegates of, edition issued by, ofLa Belle Dame,469&n.

Owen, Mrs F.M., Study by, onEndymion,544

Pain, The, of Memory, a variant ofIn drear-nighted December, third stanza of,158n.

Palgrave, F.T., admiration of, for the sonnetWoman, when I behold thee flippant, vain,89; place given by, toLamia,406


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