...108, 240, 353. CHAPTER XII Keats KEATS died before he was twenty-six years old, and yet his thought, " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death," has been abundantly fulfilled, for in the language of Matthew Arnold, " He is with Shakspere." Of one...

...calling names, as Byron did in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, but in serving poetry. He wrote, " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death;" and Arnold comments: "He is; he is with Shakespeare." . Works. In his ode On a Grecian Urn Keats concludes...

...and written by Reynolds. I don't know who wrote those in the Chronicle. This is a mere matter of the moment: I think I shall be among the English Poets...'I wonder the Quarterly should cut its own throat.' '" Another critic who wrote for the Quarterly, was John Wilson Croker, who is immortal for one remark...

...was writ in water." Not long before, he had said, in the hope and confidence of youthful strength : " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death." Keats was devotedly loved by his friends, who have all borne testimony to his manly and pure spirit,...

...WASHINGTON PUBLlCATiON No. 208 THE LORD sALTlMORE PREsS sALTlMORE, MD., U. s. A. г ч ' PREFACE " I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." These prophetic words were uttered by Keats not with presumption, but rather with the selfassurance...

...felicity of Keats, his perfection of loveliness,' and clenching all, with reference to Keats's own saying, 'I think I shall be among the English poets after my death,' by the comment, 'he is, he is with Shakespeare.' 1 Almost simultaneously with Matthew And must not,...

...than that in which he penned his epitaph, Keats had himself expressed confidence in his future : " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death." No one to-day would think of questioning the fulfilment of his belief. Keats's Artistry and Character....

...complain, because I am certain anything really fine will in these days be felt." He says again that " the attempt to crush me in the Quarterly has only brought me more into notice "; and Reynolds fully expresses the true significance of the whole affair when he assures his friend that...

...whose name was writ in water." In a hopefuller time and in a mood of noble simplicity, he had said, " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death." Keats as a Man. — Keats 's appearance is thus summed-up by one of his later biographers, from the...

..." Here lies one whose name was writ in water " to be engraved on his tombstone. But he also said " I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." EDITED BY HOLBROOK IACKSON VOL. VIII MARCH 1921 No. 45 THE appreciation of literature is tricked out...