Contents: 1. 1795-1815: Birth and parentage: schooldays and apprenticeship. 2. October 1815-March 1817: hospital studies: poetical ambitions: Leigh hunt. 3. Winter 1816-1817: Haydon: other new friendships: the die cast for poetry. 4. The 'poems' of 1817. 5. April-December 1817: work on Endymion. 6. Endymion--I. The story: its sources, plan, and symbolism. 7. Endymion--II. The poetry: its qualities and affinities. 8. December 1817-June 1818: Hampstead and Teign-mouth: emigration of George Keats. 9. June-August 1818: the Scottish tour. 10. September-December 1818: Blackwood and the quarterly: death of Tom Keats. 11. December 1818-June 1819: Keats and Brown house mates: Fanny Brawne: work and idleness. 12. June 1819-January 1820: Shanklin, Winchester, Hampstead: trouble and health failure. 13. Work of 1818, 1819--I. The achievements. 14. Work of 1818, 1819--II. The fragments and experiments. 15. February-August 1820: Hampstead and Kentish town: publication of Lamia volume. 16. August 1820-February 1821: Voyage to Italy: last days and death at Rome. 17. Epilogue. Appendix. Index.