Keats Written in 15 Minutes’. Published 1876. An important poem for the light it throws on Keats’s religious attitudes; see Bate (1963), pp. 133–6.

7 Lydian airs compare To George Felton Mathew 18. Echoes Milton’s L’Allegro 136.

ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET

Written 30 December 1816. Published 1817. ‘The author & Leigh Hunt challenged each other to write a sonnet in a Quarter of an hour. – ‘The Grasshopper & Cricket’ was the subject. – Both performed the task within the time allotted’, Woodhouse (1817), p. 151. ‘Keats won as to time’, Cowden Clarke, p. 135. On Receiving a Laurel Crown, On Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair, and To the Nile were also written in competitions with Hunt.

TO KOSCIUSKO

Written December 1816. So dated when it appeared in the Examiner, 16 February 1817. Reprinted in 1817. Tadeusz Kosciusko (1746–1817) was a Polish patriot who fought against Russia. At Dubjenka in 1792 he held off 16,000 Russians with only 4,000 troops. He had also fought for the United States in the War of Independence. He died a hero of English liberals. Hunt had a bust of him in his cottage, see Sleep and Poetry 387–8.

7 And change] Garrod (O S A), Allott; And changed 1817; Are changed Examiner, G. Emendation follows Woodhouse (1817), p. 152.

8 and round] around Examiner.

TO G[EORGIANA] A[UGUSTA] W[YLIE]

Written December 1816. Published 1817. Georgiana Wylie (c. 1797–1879) became the wife of Keats’s brother, George, in May 1818, and they emigrated to America in June of the same year. Probably written on behalf of his brother like To [Mary Frogley] (see headnote, p. 563). Keats had a strong affection for his future sister-in-law.

‘HAPPY IS ENGLAND! I COULD BE CONTENT’

Probably written December 1816 (see Bate [1963], p. 120). Published 1817.