...Nothing startles me beyond the moment," he declares to Bailey, evidently when thinking in this vein. " The Setting Sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel." Again he writes, "...

...world. This happens to the poets, through their imagination, for moments at any rate, and we have Keats: 'The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow comes before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.' 9 But there are others,...

...life, and happiness, too, was not a stranger to it. 'Nothing startles me beyond the moment,' he says; 'the setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my window I take part in its 10 existence and pick about the gravel.' But he had terrible...

...Happiness to be arrived at, at certain periods of time marked out": I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness— I look not for it if it be not in...setting sun will always set me to rights— or if a «i Above, section 15; see also Chapter X. Sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existince...

...his friend's disposition, and writes: I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness — I look noi for it if it be not in the present hour — nothing...sun will always set me to rights — or if a Sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existince and pick about the Gravel. The first thing that...

...implications of this image, it also echoes a famous passage from the correspondence of John Keats: "The setting sun will always set me to rights — or if a Sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel." 1 Given what we later...

..."Heart-vexations" (i, 188) and to Bailey on "Worldly Happiness": "I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness — I look not for it if it be not in the present hour" (i, 186). Keats's letters up to and including his early work on Endymion do not demonstrate a comparable...

...him thinking how they might be turned to advantage. He told Bailey 'I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness - I look not for it if it be not in the present hour'.2 Keats begins this letter to Bailey by making a distinction between 'Men of Genius' and 'Men...

...remember counting upon any Happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting Sun will always set me to rights—or if a Sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel"...

...to endure unresolved contradictions. As he says in 1817 in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey, "nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights—or if a Sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel"...