...came to write the notorious Preface to Endymion, he had moved far beyond them: Knowing within myself 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...

...sent it off to Reyn» "Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it it not without a feeling of regret that I make it public....and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather olds: "I am anxious you shod find this Preface tolerable. If there is an affectation in it 'tis natural...

...ENDYMION A Poetic Romance Inscribed to the Memory of THOMAS CHATTERTON 1818 Preface Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that 1 make it public. What manner 1 mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great...

...request to his audience not to read it. Keats ' regrets' making the poem public; he accuses himself of 'great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished' and suggests that 'The two first books, and indeed the two last' - which leaves nothing except perhaps...

...Mirrored Reader: A Composition and Publication History of Drafts & Fragments Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it...quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive . . . every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. — Keats, preface...

...2:807-808; and 4:663-664). But then, as he stated in his preface, he recognized that "the reader" would "soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished" in this work, and he especially censured the "mawkishness" of the adolescent imagination that such...

...Keats before the masks of great poetry were actually in place: 'the reader', says the youthful author, 'must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity,...error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished'.80 In her Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study, Brenda Webster observes that 'Mask-wearing is...

...equivocates comparably in the preface to Endymion — "the manner in which this poem has been produced . . . will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished" — one of his hostile reviewers, Croker in the Quarterly, confesses that "this does not appear to...

...equivocates comparably in the preface to Endymion—"the manner in which this poem has been produced . . . will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive...error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished"—one of his hostile reviewers, Croker in the Quarterly, confesses that "this does not...

...the outset. "Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced," Keats begins, "it is not without a feeling of regret that I make...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. The first two books, and indeed the two last, I feel sensible are not of such completion as to warrant...