s of comparison. If Shelley's poems had
defects--which they indisputably had--Keats's poems also had defects.
After all that can be said in their praise--and this should be said in
the most generous or rather grateful and thankful spirit--it seems to me
true that not many of Keats's poems are highly admirable; that most of
them, amid all their beauty, have an adolescent and frequently a morbid
tone, marking want of manful thew and sinew and of mental balance; that
he is not seldom obscure, chiefly through indifference to the thought
itself and its necessary means of development; that he is emotional
without substance, and beautiful without control; and that personalism
of a wilful and fitful kind pervades the mass of his handiwork. We have
already seen, however, that there is a certain not inconsiderable
proportion of his poems to which these exceptions do not apply, or apply
only with greatly diminished force; and, as a last expression of our
large and abiding debt to him and to his well-loved memory, we recur to
his own words, and say that he has given us many a "thing of beauty,"
which will remain "a joy for ever." By his early death he was doomed to
be the poet of youthfulness; by being the poet of youthfulness he was
privileged to become and to remain enduringly the poet of rapt
expectation and passionate delight.

THE END.

INDEX.

A.

Abbey, Guardian of Keats, 17, 19, 20, 29, 37, 39

"Adonais," by Shelley, 39, 90, 98, 170

AEschylus, 186

"Agnes, The Eve of St.," 107, 138;
critical estimate of the poem, 182-184; 190, 206

"Alastor," by Shelley, 82

"Annals of the Fine Arts," 110

Ariosto, 113

_Asclepiad, The_, 24

_Athenaeum, The_, 23

"Autumn, Ode to," by Keats, 109, 192, 194

B.

Bailey, Archdeacon Benjamin, 23, 77, 78, 112, 123;
his description of Keats, 124; 130, 133, 141, 142, 145, 158, 159

"Belle Dame (La) sans Merci," by Keats, 112, 182, 185, 190;
quoted, 192, &c.; 200

Benjamin, Nathan, 157

Bion, Idyll on "Adonis," by, 170

Blackwood, William, 91

_Blackwood's Magazine_, 90;
articles in by Z, on The Cockney School of Poetry, 91; 92, 93, 95, 97,
98, 99, 100, 103, 104, 153

Boccaccio's "Decameron," 107, 180, 181

Boileau, 70

Bojardo's "Orlando Innamorato," 114

Brawne, Fanny, engaged to Keats, 30, 32;
Keats's description of her, 33; 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45;
Keats's love-letters t