The sympathetic and discerning bio grapher of John Keats says, in the memoir prefixed to Moxon's edition of the Poems', The publication of three small volumes of verse, some earnest friendships, one profound passion, and a premature death are the main inci dents here to be recorded. These words have long become household words, at all events in the household of those who make the lives and works of English poets their special study; and nothing is likely to be discovered which shall alter the fact thus set forth.