 | William Michael Rossetti - 1887 - 246 páginas
...matured by law and precept, but by •sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself. In ' Endymion' I leaped "headlong...acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the locks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 páginas
...watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself. In " Endymion " I leaped heudlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quick sands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 páginas
...salvation in a man. It can not be matured by law and precept, but by( sensation and watchfulness. * * In Endymion I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby...stayed upon the green shore and piped a silly pipe, and taken tea and comfortable advice. And then he went on to write the noble poem of "Hyperion," which... | |
 | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - 1895 - 304 páginas
...soul-trying experience, in its effect not unlike the one which Keats describes a propos of " Endymion : " " In ' Endymion ' I leaped headlong into the sea and...the rocks than if I had stayed upon the green shore, took tea and comfortable advice. I was never afraid of failure — I would rather fail than not be... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 páginas
...salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept,1 but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. . . . ' In Endymion ' I leaped headlong into...the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took \sic\ tea and comfortable advice." * And again : " If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to... | |
 | 1900 - 654 páginas
...Lie. he likens him to Keats who said : " In ( Endymion ' I leaped headlong into the sea and therefore have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had staid upon the green shore, took tea and comfortable advice. I was never afraid of failure — than... | |
 | John Keats - 1906 - 428 páginas
...knew "Endymion's" defect: — "In 'Endymion' I leaped headlong into the sea," he said afterwards, " and thereby have become better acquainted with the...stayed upon the green shore and piped a silly pipe." What Soundings, and what avoiding of rocks and sands there had been, one perceives,, as reading in... | |
 | John William Mackail - 1914 - 362 páginas
...supplement this by what he had said elsewhere and before he had lost his nerve : " That which is creative must create itself. In Endymion I leaped headlong...stayed upon the green shore and piped a silly pipe." He could afford, a year or two after he had written Endymion, to look back on it as a slight thing,... | |
 | John Keats - 1916 - 150 páginas
...have written independently without judgment. I may write independently and with judgment hereafter. In Endymion I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby...silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.' He published it with a preface modestly explaining to the public his own sense of its imperfection.... | |
 | CHRISTOPHER MORLEY - 1923 - 196 páginas
...salvation in a man: It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness . . . In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby...a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice. —Keats, letter to James Hessey. * * * * Some think me middling, others silly, others foolish. ...... | |
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The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man: It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation & watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself — In Endymion... 
