Table of Contents
The First Years (1795-1810)
Abbey's Wards (1810-1815)
Guy's Hospital (1815-1816)
An Adventure in Hope (Summer 1816)
The Commitment to Poetry: Chapman's Homer, Hunt, and Haydon (Autumn 1816)
Completing the First Volume (November and December, 1816)
The Laurel Crown and the Vision of Greatness (December 1816 to March 1817)
A Trial of Invention: Endymion
An Act of Will (June to December, 1817)
Negative Capability
Another Beginning (December and January, 1817-18)
Devonshire and Isabella (February to April, 1818)
The Burden of the Mystery: the Emergence of a Modern Poet (Spring 1818)
The Departure of George Keats and the Scottish Tour (Summer 1818)
Reviews, the Writing of Hyperion, the Death of Tom Keats (Autumn 1818)
Hyperion and a New Level of Writing
Fanny Brawne; The Eve of St. Agnes (Winter 1818-19)
A Period of Uncertainty (February to April, 1819)
The Odes of April and May, 1819
The Final Beginning: Lamia (May to July, 1819)
The Close of the Fertile Year: "To Autumn" and The Fall of Hyperion (July to September, 1819)
Illness (Autumn and Winter, 1819)
Adrift (January to August, 1820)
The Voyage to Italy (August to November, 1820)
Rome and the Last Months (November 1820 to February 1821)
Appendices
I. Family Origins
II. The Length of Keats's Apprenticeship
III. The Keats Children's Inheritance
Index