...reality the result of Imagination.* When the Endymion was nearly finished, we find him writing : " I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of the imagination. What the imagination seizes must be true — all our passions are, in their sublime, creative of essential...

...self-reliance. The Over Soul is the vast background of our being. Nothing is except the Soul. Keats felt certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of the imagination. But Emerson, like Shelley, makes the Soul ' the hierophant of an unapprehended inspiration, the unacknowledged...

...great poet the sense of beauty overcomes every other consideration." Once more, " I am certain about nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth, whether it existed before or not....

...song ' to which Keata refers in a letter to Benjamin Bailey, dated November 22, 1817, when he says : ' I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections, and the trnth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth — whether it existed before...

...self-defence, to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity and things attainable." At this same moment he is certain of nothing but " the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of imagination." The difference is due partly to uncertainty and partly to inexperience : when he recommended...

...written on November twentysecond, 1817, may be taken as the key to Endymion, and the sole and only key: "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth — whether it existed before or not,...

...pathetic, for sincerity was a dominating trait with him. This letter contains the passage beginning "I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections," which I quoted in the last chapter.1 In connection with this, he refers to "the little Song I sent...

...public thought", he writes to Reynolds (April 9, l8l8). Then to Bailey, November 22, l8l7, he writes: "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not,...

...greatest seriousness. Straining after light in the midst of a great darkness, he declared he was sure "Of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections, and the Truth of Imagination." It may be he would have come to perceive that Truth is Beauty in a sense distinct from...

...anything but his own heart. Thus Keats who first burst into song in 1815 (at the age of twenty) declared: 'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.' With a cultivation of the feelings quite alien to the eighteenth century (so suspicious...