...whose name was writ in water." In a hopcfuller 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. — Kcats's appearance is thus summed-up by one of his later biographers, from the...

...self. That expression is found in the words of a letter which he wrote in the full flush of health : "I think I shall be among the English poets after my death." Concerning this, Matthew Arnold says : "He is, he is with Shakespeare." Keats came to manhood and artistic...

...was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest." October 14th. "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." October 16th. "I shall send you more than letters — I mean a tale — which I must begin on account...

...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....

...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,"...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...