...Keats had published a very modest preface to " Endymion," acknowledging that his work was marked by " great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space...

...MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTOX. TBS BTEETCBED MF.TKE OF AX ASTigvX BJSO. PREFACE. KNOWING within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it...regret that I make it public. What manner I mean, will he quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error...

...B. SCOTT. BELLEVUE HOUSE, CHELSEA. KEATS' POETICAL WORKS. ENDYMION. PREFACE. KNOWING within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret I make it public. What manner I mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great...

...beauty of expression as well as for its characteristics of the writer. PREFACE. Knowing within myself the manner in which this poem has been produced, it...attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. The two st books, and indeed the two last, I feel sensible arc not of such completion as to warrant their passing...

...aberrations from the natural course. Indeed we might almost quote Keats's own words:—"The reader must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity,...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished." But there are many things to admire in Endymion. We find a sweetness and a pathos, which attract us...

...remarkable since it is exercised on the first child of his genius. " Knowing within myself," he writes, " the manner in which this poem has been produced, it...attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. . . . The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space...

...remarkable since it is exercised on the first child of his genius. " Knowing within myself," he writes, " the manner in which this poem has been produced, it...attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. . . . The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space...

...Hunt's insane criticism, more than rivals the insanity of his poetry. 4 Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished.' — Preface, p. vii. We humbly beg his pardon, but this does not appear to us to be quite so clear...

...Hunt's insane criticism, more than rivals the insanity of his poetry. ' Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished.' — Preface, p. vii. We humbly beg his pardon, but this does not appear to us to be quite so clear...

...INSCRIEED TO THE MEMORY Of THOMAS CHATTERTON PREFA CE KNOWING within myself the manner in which Ms Poem !ns been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret...accomplished. The two first books, and indeed the two lost, I feel sensible are not of such completion as to warrant their passing the press ; nor should...