whom he had helped to nurse, told upon his spirits, as did also his unrequited passion for Miss Fanny Brawne.  In 1820 he pub. Lamia and Other Poems, containing Isabella, Eve of St. Agnes, Hyperion, and the odes to the Nightingale and The Grecian Urn, all of which had been produced within a period of about 18 months.  This book was warmly praised in the Edinburgh Review.  His health had by this time completely given way, and he was likewise harassed by narrow means and hopeless love.  He had, however, the consolation of possessing many warm friends, by some of whom, the Hunts and the Brawnes, he was tenderly nursed.  At last in 1821 he set out, accompanied by his friend Severn, on that journey to Italy from which he never returned.  After much suffering he d. at Rome, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery there.  The character of K. was much misunderstood until the publication by R.M.  Milnes, afterwards Lord Houghton (q.v.), of his Life and Letters, which gives an attractive picture of him.  This, together with the accounts of other friends, represent him as “eager, enthusiastic, and sensitive, but humorous, reasonable, and free from vanity, affectionate, a good brother and friend, sweet-tempered, and helpful.”  In his political views he was liberal, in his religious, indefinite.  Though in his life-time subjected to much harsh and unappreciative criticism, his place among English poets is now assured.  His chief characteristics are intense, sensuous imagination, and love of beauty, rich and picturesque descriptive power, and exquisitely melodious versification.

Life, Letters, etc., by R.M.  Milnes (1848), Poems and Letters (Forman, 5 vols., 1900).  Keats (Men of Letters Series, Colvin, 1887), etc. Poems (1817), Endymion (1818), Lamia and Other Poems (1820).

KEBLE, JOHN (1792-1866).—­Poet and divine, s. of the Rev. John K., Vicar of Coln St. Aldwyn’s, Gloucestershire, b. at Fairford in the same county, ed. by his f. and at Oxf., where he was elected a Fellow of Oriel Coll., and was for some years tutor and examiner in the Univ.  His ideal life, however, was that of a country clergyman, and having taken orders in 1815, he became curate to his f. Meantime he had been writing The Christian Year, which appeared in 1827, and met with an almost unparalleled acceptance.  Though at first anonymous, its authorship soon became known, with the result that K. was in 1831 appointed to the Chair of Poetry at Oxf., which he held until 1841.  In 1833 his famous sermon on “national apostasy” gave the first impulse to the Oxf. movement, of which, after the secession of Newman to the Church of Rome, he, along with Pusey, was regarded as the leader, and in connection with which he contributed several of the more important “tracts” in which were enforced “deep submission to authority,