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 780 KEBLE KEECIIIES odes on the " Nightingale " and the " Grecian Urn," the poems of " Lamia," "The Eve of St. Agnes," " Isabella," &c., and the magnificent fragment of " Hyperion." In September, 1820, Keats left England with Mr. Severn, a young artist and a devoted friend, who never left his bedside. He lingered a few months at Naples and Rome, and died at the latter place after much suffering. A few days before his death he said that he " felt the daisies growing over him." He was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome, near the spot where Shel- ley's ashes were afterward interred ; and upon his tomb was inscribed the epitaph, dictated by himself: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." His modest hope that " after his death he would be among the poets of Eng- land," has been more fully realized than he could have anticipated ; and his influence can be traced in the poetic development of many later writers. See " Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats," by R. M. Milnes (Lord Houghton) (2 vols., London, 1848). KEBLE, John, an English poet, born near Fairford, Gloucestershire, April 25, 1792, died at Bournemouth, Hampshire, March 29, 1866. He graduated at Oriel college, Oxford, in 1810, obtaining a double first in classics and mathe- matics, a distinction never gained before that time, except in the instance of Sir Robert Peel in 1808. For some years afterward he was a fellow, master of the schools, examiner, and college tutor. In 1815 he was ordained, and in 1823 he resigned his Oxford employments to accept the curacies of Eastleach, Burthorpe, and Southrop, the united receipts of which did not amount to more than 100 a year. In 1824 he refused an archdeaconry in the West Indies, worth 2,000 a year, which was pressed upon him by William Hart Coleridge, bishop of Bar- badoes ; and a year afterward he accepted the curacy of Hursley. In 1832 he was made pro- fessor of poetry at Oxford, and he held that post for two periods of five years each. His lectures were in Latin, and were published under the title of Prtelectiones Academic (2 vols., 1832-'40). In 1833 he was appointed to deliver the summer assize sermon at Oxford, which was subsequently published under the title of "National Apostasy," and was me- morialized by Dr. Newman in his " Apologia " as "the start of the religious movement" of that time. Of the "Tracts for the Times" (Oxford, 1833-'41), Keble wrote Nos. 4, 13, 40, and 89. In 1835 he became vicar of Hurs- ley and rector of Otterbourne, which livings he held till his death. His principal works are : "The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holidays throughout the Year" (2 vols., Oxford, 1827); "The Psalter, or Psalms of David in English Verse" (1839); "Lyra Innocentium: Thoughts in Verse on Children," &c. (1846); and several volumes of academical and occasional sermons. He edited and annotated the complete works of Richard Hooker (4 vols., 1836) ; in 1837, with Dr. New- man, he edited "Froude's Remains;" in 1838, with Dr. Newman and Dr. Pusey, he began the editing and annotation of the Oxford edi- tion of the "Library of the Fathers," which in a few succeeding years grew into a series of 39 octavo volumes. He is author of the much commended article on " Sacred Poetry " in vol. xxxii. of the London " Quarterly Review." " The Christian Year " is the most remarkable of his works. It was first published anony- mously, and within 25 years 108,000 copies had been printed in 43 editions. Nino months after the author's death the 100th edition was reached, with a total circulation, in English editions and American reprints, of not less than 500,000 copies. It has appeared in all sizes, and some editions, and separate poems, like the " Evening and Morning Hymns," have been profusely illustrated and illuminated. In 1807 M. Fyler produced in a quarto volume 686 illus- trations of poetic imagery from " The Chris- tian Year." A comprehensive and minute " Concordance " has been published. Char- lotte Mary Yonge published " Musings on The Christian Year" (London, 1870). Keble re- tained his copyright till his death, and from the profits of the book, in 1846-'8, the ancient cumbrous brick church of Hursley was re- placed by one of the most beautiful parish churches in the kingdom. The copyright ex- pired March 29, 1873, and within five weeks ten different editions were issued by London publishers. Since his death Keble college, Oxford, has been founded in his honor. The best biography of Keble is by Sir John Tay- lor Coleridge (London, 1868 ; 4th ed., 1874). KECSKEMET, or Ketskemet, a city of Hungary, in the county and 50 m. S. E. of the city of Pesth, on the railway to Szegedin; pop. in 1870, 41,195. It contains churches for the Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Greeks, a synagogue, a Catholic gymnasium, a Reformed lyceum, and various other educational institu- tions. It has soap manufactories and tan- neries, a lively trade in horses and cattle, and five annual fairs. KEECHIES, a tribe of Indians, originally in Texas, apparently the same mentioned by Span- ish authorities about 1780 as the Quitzeis, and then north of Bucareli. They were a small tribe numbering less than 100 men able to bear arms. In 1822 they were on Trinity river to the number of 261. After Texas became part of the United States, the Keechies and other Indians were placed on a state reservation, and remained there quietly till 1859, when organi- zations were formed to destroy the Indians on the reservations. To save them the United States government removed them to lands leased from the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The Keechies settled on the Canadian river, and had just begun to prosper when the civil war broke out, and they were again exposed to their enemies, and removed to the Little Arkansas in great destitution. They were re- stored to the leased lands in 1867. In 1872