same as human life and its spiritual repetition. But, as I was saying, the simple imaginative mind may have its rewards in the repetition of its own silent working coming continually on the spirit with a fine suddenness.

“To compare great things with small, have you never, by being surprised with an old melody, in a delicious place, by a delicious voice, felt over again your very speculations and surmises at the time it first operated on your soul? Do you not remember forming to yourself the singer’s face—more beautiful than it was possible, and yet, with the elevation of the moment, you did not think so? Even then you were mounted on the wings of Imagination, so high that the prototype must be hereafter—that delicious face you will see. Sure this cannot be exactly the case with a complex mind— one that is imaginative, and at the same time careful of its fruits,—who would exist partly on sensation, partly on thought—to whom it is necessary that ‘years should bring the philosophic mind?’ Such a one I consider yours, and therefore it is necessary to your eternal happiness that you not only drink this old wine of Heaven, which I shall call the redigestion of our most ethereal musings upon earth, but also increase in knowledge, and know all things.”

The young poet who wrote this was as much a philosopher as any that ever tried to state his belief, human and divine, but he was too fine an artist to let his philosophy over-ride his poetry. By his poetry, and that only half or a quarter fulfilled, we see him to have been potentially great,—great in intellect as well as fantasy; and count his death as one of the irreparable darkest calamities of literature, to be ranked with the death of Marlowe and the drowning of Shelley.

In a companion volume to this it is intended to give presently Lord Houghton’s Life and Letters, with certain additions; and as his biography in full will appear there, it is unnecessary to summarise it here. The following table gives his complete published works:—

Sonnets: “To Solitude”; “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”; “To Kosciusko”; “After Dark Vapors have Oppress’d Our Plains”; “To Haydon”; “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”; “Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer’s Tale of The Flowre and the Lefe”; “On the Grasshopper and Cricket,” Examiner, 1816- 1817. Poems, 1817. Sonnet: “On the Sea” “Articles on Kean as a Shakespearian Actor, and in Richard III.,” Champion, 1817. “Endymion,” 1818; “Ode to a Nightingale,” Annals of the Fine Arts, 1819. Sonnets: “To Ailsa Rock”; “The Human Seasons,” Leigh Hunt’s Literary Pocket-Book, 1819. “Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems” (including “Hyperion”), 1820. Sonnet: “A Dream after reading Dante’s ‘Paolo and Francesca”’; “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” Indicator, 1820. “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Annals of the Fine Arts, 1820. Another version of Keats’ “Hyperion,” Ed. R. M. Milnes, vol. iii., Philobiblion Society, 1856-7. Hyperion: a facsimile of Keats’ autograph, with MS. of “The Fall of Hyperion: a Dream,” Ed. E. de Selincourt, Clarendon Press, 1905.

Other poems by Keats have appeared for the first time posthumously in The Gem, 1829; Hood’s Comic Annual, 1830; Hood’s Magazine, 1844; Athenœum, June 1873.

Collected Editions: The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, 1829. Poetical Works, Standard Library, 1840. Poetical Works with Memoir by R. M. Milnes (Lord Houghton). 1854, 1871, 1876 (Aldine Ed.), 1883, with Memoir by W. M. Rossetti. 1872, 1880. The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats, now first brought together, including poems and numerous letters not before published. Ed. H. B. Forman, 4 vols. 1883. By same Editor, Poetry and Prose (containing new matter), 1890. Complete Works, 1900-1.

Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, including most of the poems unpublished in Keats’ lifetime: “Otho the Great,” a tragedy; “King Stephen,” a fragment; “The Cap and Bells, or the Jealousies,” a faüry tale, unfinished; “Some Miscellaneous Poems” (1815-1819), and his last Sonnet, Ed. R. M. Milnes, 1848. 1867. (without the Literary Remains, but with variant of “Hyperion.”) Letters to Fanny Brawne, Ed. H. B. Forman, 1878, 1889. Letters to his Family and Friends, Ed. S. Colvin, 1891. Life of Keats, by W. M. Rossetti, 1887; Life, by Sidney Colvin (Eng. Men of Letters), 1887.