 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 608 páginas
...Hazlitt, he quietly set about perfecting himself. " This is a mere matter of the moment," he says ; " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death." A man so nervously sensitive must have winced, to be sure, under the bludgeon blows of his adversaries.... | |
 | James Weber Linn - 1911 - 292 páginas
...poems. We know now, since the publication of Keats's letters, how little the review really affected him. "The attempt to crush me in the Quarterly has only...'I wonder the Quarterly should cut its own throat.' " The real reason for the savageness of the review (which called the poet contemptuously "Johnny Keats,"... | |
 | F. A. Hall - 1911 - 128 páginas
...sister in Louisville, he wrote a few days later, with a proud humility: "This is a mere matter of the moment — I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." That is not the temper of an "amiable bardling" "snuffed out by an article" — nor, on the other hand,... | |
 | 1900 - 1034 páginas
...his work had in it some essential merit, he may be pardoned for adding, "This is a mere matter of the moment ; I think I shall be among the English poets after my death," a prophecy fully confirmed by the appreciative language of Lowell, "Enough that we recognize in Keats... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - 1912 - 336 páginas
...prescience which all great poets seem to have, he writes in another letter : " This is a mere matter of the moment ; I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." During the rest of 1818 and all 1819 Keats worked hard. He had been reading Shakespeare and Milton... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1914 - 346 páginas
...work had in it some essential merit, he may be pardoned for adding, " This is a mere matter of the moment; I think I shall be among the English poets after my death," a prophecy fully confirmed by the appreciative language of Lowell, " Enough that we recognize in Keats... | |
 | Harry Bache Smith - 1914 - 510 páginas
...the paper-mill would be made immortal by their short sojourn upon his shelves? Although Keats wrote, "I think I shall be among the English poets after my death," he could never have imagined that his little books, for which there were no buyers in his lifetime,... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 462 páginas
...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... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - 1915 - 488 páginas
...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... | |
 | New York Public Library - 1916 - 416 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
