Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John KeatsG. P. Putnam, 1848 - 393 páginas |
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... Poems are his works indeed . The biography therefore of a poet can be little better than a comment on his Poems , even when itself of long duration , and checkered with strange and various adventures : but these pages concern one whose ...
... Poems are his works indeed . The biography therefore of a poet can be little better than a comment on his Poems , even when itself of long duration , and checkered with strange and various adventures : but these pages concern one whose ...
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... Poems of Keats has already had much of a personal character : and his early end , like that of Chatterton , ( of ... poets will not de- ny the promise of his candidature . When a man has had a fair field of existence before him and free ...
... Poems of Keats has already had much of a personal character : and his early end , like that of Chatterton , ( of ... poets will not de- ny the promise of his candidature . When a man has had a fair field of existence before him and free ...
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... poetic life , and the stream of his inspiration remained long colored by the rich soil over which it first had flowed . Nor will the just critic of the maturer poems of Keats fail to trace to the influence of the study of Spenser much ...
... poetic life , and the stream of his inspiration remained long colored by the rich soil over which it first had flowed . Nor will the just critic of the maturer poems of Keats fail to trace to the influence of the study of Spenser much ...
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... poems , and some lines of the following invocation bear a mournful anticipatory analogy to the close of the beautiful elegy which Shelley hung over another early grave . " O Chatterton ! how very sad thy fate ! Dear child of sorrow ...
... poems , and some lines of the following invocation bear a mournful anticipatory analogy to the close of the beautiful elegy which Shelley hung over another early grave . " O Chatterton ! how very sad thy fate ! Dear child of sorrow ...
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... poems of Keats , and a congeniality of literary dispositions appears to have been the chief impulse to these relations . With Mr. Felton Mathew , * to whom his first published Epistle was addressed , he appears to have enjoyed a * A ...
... poems of Keats , and a congeniality of literary dispositions appears to have been the chief impulse to these relations . With Mr. Felton Mathew , * to whom his first published Epistle was addressed , he appears to have enjoyed a * A ...
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Página 64 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Página 171 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the...
Página 74 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: // Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a shattered visage lies, / whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor / well those passions read / Which yet survive, / stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them, / and the heart that fed: // And on the pedestal / these words appear: // "My...
Página 68 - I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity — it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance — 2nd.
Página 41 - I have never yet been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning — and yet it must be. Can it be that even the greatest philosopher ever arrived at his goal without putting aside numerous objections. However it may be, O for a Life of sensations rather than of thoughts ! It is 'a vision in the form of youth
Página 141 - I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death. Even as a Matter of present interest the attempt to crush me in the Quarterly has only brought me more into notice, and it is a common expression among book men, " I wonder the Quarterly should cut its own throat.
Página 59 - Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason...
Página 85 - Or may I woo thee In earlier Sicilian ? or thy smiles Seek as they once were sought, in Grecian isles, By bards who died content on pleasant sward, Leaving great verse unto a little clan ? O, give me their old vigour, and unheard Save of the quiet Primrose, and the span Of heaven and few ears, Rounded by thee, my song should die away Content as theirs, Rich in the simple worship of a day.
Página 193 - I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.
Página 82 - I have been hovering for some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious, and a love for philosophy, — were I calculated for the former, I should be glad. But as I am not, I shall turn all my soul to the latter.